Spring ’13 marks a full-on nineties revival. So it’s appropriate that the new fashion-media site VFILES would choose this week to relaunch X-Girl, the indie, New York-based clothing line started by Kim Gordon (of Sonic Youth fame) and stylist Daisy von Furth in 1993. Inspired by X-Large, the L.A.-based men’s skatewear brand founded by Eli Bonerz, Adam Silverman, and the Beastie Boys’ Mike D, X-Girl offered fitted streetwear and provided a preppy, sixties-style alternative to the baggy grunge look of the decade. The duo’s first collection debuted via a guerrilla fashion show in Soho—naturally, it was broadcast by MTV’s House of Style; it was the nineties, after all—and after the designers’ pals joined in on the fun (Sofia Coppola was involved, and Chloë Sevigny was their first fit model), the line reached cult status. As von Furth explained in Paper magazine’s “An Oral History of X-Girl,” “It was all about being cool and having stuff that other people didn’t have. We had no official style background. The first thing we did was a T-shirt that said ‘X-Girl’ in Agnès B. font. We got a quick cease and desist.”
The brand was bought by a Japanese company in 1998 and hasn’t been seen stateside since. Until now, of course. The revived range—which includes X-Girl logo T-shirts, chip clips, and other kitschy swag—isn’t designed by Gordon and von Furth, but it definitely induces some much-appreciated nineties nostalgia.
X-Girl is available now on VFiles.com.
—Katharine K. Zarrella
Photos: Courtesy of VFILESy
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