Has fashion always been cyclical?

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

This is an odd question and I wasn't sure where to put it. It seems that western fashion in my lifetime has been a constant cycle of reused post-world war 2 fashions. Has this always been the case historically or has our culture reached a point where it is incapable of creating anything new? Obviously the creation of a totally unique object or concept is pretty rare in general but we seem to have come to a brick wall with almost anything not just clothing. What will hollywood do when it runs out of books to turn into movies? It seems obvious that they will just remake the movie with better special effects the next time around. But in that instance even the trappings used to disguise something old as something new seem to be derivative.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

It definitely seems to me that the 1990s was the last decade with a distinctive "look" - I'm not really seeing much of an aesthetic difference between the 2000s and the new teens.

What we appear to have nowadays, thanks to the internet and recycling of past fashions (not just limited to the 20th century either - look at the steampunk aesthetic which has become popular over the last decade), is a sort of ever-evolving mish-mash of looks and sounds based on personal identities and distinctive subcultures, rather than general fashion trends which are followed by most people, such that when one glances out on a busy street, it is obvious "what's in fashion now".

Although all that got started in the 90s, it's become as pervasive as the internet and it leads me to think that we are now living in a "post-fashion" world stylistically speaking.