Just when you think a trend may be gone for good, a buzzy designer or It girl will breathe new life into it. This statement stands strong as ever, as the current list of what’s cool in fashion pulls from the ’60s and the mid-2000s, and there’s no solid prediction of what could come next. Fashion is cyclical, and it’s only natural that things will come back in style. Even when I report on certain pieces being “out,” I always remind the reader that it’s up to them to decide what’s worth keeping or tossing. And while I’ve grown familiar with the pattern of trends coming and going, a few items that came down the 2023 runways still took me by surprise.
In light of discussing 2023 fashion, I scoured the collections and identified a few trends I wasn’t expecting to see in the cycle this year. Y2K is still keeping a strong hold on us with bootcut jeans in the Blumarine and Givenchy collections. (Gen Z has already shown its favouritism toward the style as well as baggy denim.) The ’80s are also asserting influence, with metallic and polka-dots pieces leaning far away from their once “tacky” identities. I won’t spoil it all right here, so you’ll just have to keep scrolling to see the rest.
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