I still love Trent Lane, a cartoon.
Daria’s Trent Lane Is My Slacker Menswear Crush
Is it wrong to be in love with a cartoon? Whether it is or not, I know I am not the only one in my obsession with Trent Lane from the MTV animated series Daria, a lanky, guitar-playing dude who still lives at home with his parents. The series, which ran between 1997 to 2002, focused on the high school student Daria Morgendorffer with a painfully blasé attitude, who was stuck in Lawndale-wherever. Her nihilism is cut by the fact that she has a big crush on her best friend Jane’s brother, Trent. When I posted a photo of him on Instagram, the comments that followed were a slew of hearts and “first crush” comments.
And who doesn’t adore Trent? He reminds us of youth, longing, and backseat summer love. He is the ultimate high school dreamboat for alternative ladies, an archetype of the kind of crush that only exists in grades 9-12. A guitarist for the band Mystik Spiral, Trent is stretched out like Gumby, with a scruffy ‘do and healthy sideburns. His facial hair is intoxicating, too: It goes from four scraggly hairs on his chin to eventually a perfectly symmetrical triangle of a goatee. He has two really bad tattoos that encircle his thin-thin biceps. I want to squeeze them.
This story originally appeared on: Vogue - Author:CelebDailyPosts
