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We Were So Online

November 2025

We Were So Online // feature TBA

Photography: Liam Šandera @liam.sandera
Styling: Liam Šandera & Sophie Hedinger @liam.sandera @_sophie_hed_
Models: Alina Humm @alinaaa.aax, Victor Lamster @zh.victor._.l, Annina Rauhoff @chopfleer, Milo Heuberger @milo.h_26, Malina Tius @malinaanastasiaaa
Photography Assistance: Sophie Hedinger @_sophie_hed_

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The 2000s comeback isn’t only about fashion or music. It’s a memory of a world that existed before hyper-surveillance, climate anxiety, and identity overload took over our lives. It’s a longing for a moment when the future still felt bright and full of possibility, not fear.

I wanted to show the way young people today are reaching back to a past we never even fully lived, trying to find comfort and freedom in it. Style, sexuality, and nostalgia become tools of resistance, ways to reclaim a sense of control in a world that often feels chaotic and uncertain and most of all, scary.

I made this editorial with the idea of turning the past into a safe space, a world where self-expression isn’t policed or performative, but honest and playful. It’s about using the aesthetics of a supposedly „easier“ time to make sense of this complicated present.

There’s this feeling people are chasing. It makes sense that a lot of young people are kind of escaping into that time. Back then, everything seemed lighter, more carefree, like the future was full of possibility. The y2k era wasn’t perfect, but it had this playful, experimental energy. People were trying things, mixing styles, and not taking themselves too seriously.

That sense of freedom is missing today, so we’re bringing it back in our own way. It’s not just nostalgia, it’s a way of finding optimism again.

It isn’t about going back - it’s about remembering how it felt.

LIAM ŠANDERA

We Were So Online

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