Luke Perry is dead. An unconscious style icon of the nineties

Beverly Hills 90210 Cast

Luke Perry died at age 52. The news is going around the world. For four days the actor of the famous television series Beverly Hills 90210 was in hospital, after being hit by a fulminating stroke. Messages of condolences are multiplying, above all, as usual, online: from colleagues in the TV series, beginning with Ian Ziering, better known as Steve Sanders in the show set in California, to the producers of his subsequent works, including Riverdale.

After the teen show closed its doors in the tenth season, Perry and friends have not heard much about Europe. The only one able to maintain a certain success Brenda Walsh, or the actress Shannen Doherty. Of the others it was not known much anymore. Until a few weeks ago when the remake was announced with some of the protagonists. Dylan excluded.

Style icons. But unaware. Unlike today, in which it is all too easy to decide the success of a look or, on a large scale, a trend, at the time, in the nineties, it was not so simple to define a style. At least that were not the divine to mark the pass. Perry and his companions were certainly not so relevant, yet they unconsciously dictated the aesthetic code of an entire generation. Other than grunge. The latter was too catwalk.

The wardrobe included a few but decisively key garments: sneakers or slippers of the time were accorded to a-line dresses; jeans and shorts, possibly with a high waist, combined with tight t-shirts for women – after all we are in California – and over shirts for men. Luke Perry, indeed, sometimes also used the white tank top. A classic, made damned by the character at the same time seductive and cursed. Beloved and hated.

If the reboot will be made in memory of Perry or not, it is not known. What is certain is the thought that millions of fans bring with them, when they came home from school and, while they were having a snack, they turned on the TV to see their favorites, among which one stood out, with a sexy and mischievous eye, on all.

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