Picture this: it’s the early 2000s. Your fashion and beauty inspiration comes from the style columns in magazines and a new wave of boundarypushing music videos. Every afternoon is punctuated with the eyeliner-laden Fefe Dobson belting out your favourite tunes while clad in a dizzying combination of stripes and fishnets.
Avril Lavigne is at the height of her career, challenging the precious pop princess persona of the time with her vocal chops and gender-defying outfits. Your aspirational vision of the world is in technicolour but at a safe distance, within the boxed-up walls of a desktop or a television screen. That