I was worried for a second. I thought that brat summer was over. There have been a dozen chic think-pieces telling me so, but I didn’t really want to admit it was finally gone. To me, it felt like everyone had caught up. I’ve been living that life Von Dutch since the age of 18 (smoking before it was cool again, a messy love life, a laissez-faire approach to hygiene), and I was extraordinarily pleased to be enjoying it with everyone else. I didn’t want us to go back to clean girl makeup and Stanley cups. Not yet, anyway.
But then we were blessed with the remix of Guess with Billie Eilish – a lurid, messy bonus track made all the more so by Eilish’s breathy vocals – so, I’m pleased to announce that brat summer is back, although, in truth, it never really left.
