.Editor's Note: When we speak about Y2K in vogue our experts talk about an appearance, however it's 1999 that is actually the switching point. As Nicole Phelps turns her focus to this unique year, our experts are incorporating five archival programs to the archive.At Chanel's autumn 1999 ready-to-wear program, the collection was stark and also available, and also designs walked an egg-shaped along with 1999 printed in its own center. There was a contact of the middle ages-- perhaps even survivalist-- in the shearlings and level musketeer boots. Waistbands of metallic chains were tough the talismans that dangled from all of them read as protective amulets, which were well-suited to the what-comes-next state of mind of the time.