Generation Z and fashion: Everything can, nothing has to

The main thing is ugly, everything is ironic, as diverse as possible – the style of Generation Z is difficult to pin down. Our author, herself in her early 20s, tries anyway.

Last summer I had a pair of mirrored cycling glasses on my nose. Every self-respecting under-25 year old wore one – including me. Mine was from Decathlon, 6.99 euros. Ski Aggu, 26, a newcomer rapper with a bleached mullet, is the icon of these ultra-fast glasses. “I’ll explain to you how to get to a concert for free,” he says in a Tiktok video. And runs through the entrance control of the Berlin Columbiahalle, pushes through the crowd, just past the security with the yellow high-visibility vests. In the video, Ski Aggu wears his trademark that always masks him: colorful mirrored ski goggles that cover half his face. The video has 2.7 million views, someone writes in the comments: “The quick glasses helped.”