Why we can't get enough of the 80s?

December 31, 1989, marked in theory at least the end of one decade and the beginning of another. But 30 years later, it doesn’t really feel that away. The Eighties are bigger than ever. We are now in the surreal position where Eighties nostalgia has lasted longer than the Eighties themselves.

You can see the evidence everywhere. The major TV event of the summer is the return to Netflix of Stranger Things: a Reagan-era mash-up of Goonies, ET and Stephen King in his early door-stopper era. Catwalks were last year denominated by throwback neon, acid wash jeans and “soft leather” jackets. Donald Trump, a creature of Eighties Manhattan, referenced in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, sits in the White House.