Through a post-MeToo lens, the Nineties seem like a pretty shitty time to have been a woman – particularly a woman in the public eye. The Monica Lewinsky scandal (in which the then fiftysomething leader of the free world had an affair with a 22-year-old unpaid intern) ushered in an open season on women.
Slut shaming – on a global scale, upheld by a new 24-hour news cycle - became the norm, and Lewinsky was the ‘patient zero’ for the viral age. Elsewhere, Playboy was at the peak of its sleazy powers, while, closer to home, lads mags dominated the cultural landscape. And yet, our nostalgia for that era shows little sign of abating.
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