My 2025 Fashion Trend Predictions

Hi everyone! Oh my gosh, it's 2025. Is it going well for you? I hope so. I actually hope so for me too, because I'm filming this in 2024. Today I am sharing my fashion trend predictions for 2025. I'm always thinking about fashion and trends through the lens of social and cultural context, so I am very excited to share not only my trend predictions, but also the sociocultural reasoning behind them. Plus some that, I don't know, they feel like a premonition. I have no explanation, but they're in here. I say this as someone who is not a professional, I am not a trend forecaster, I am but a humble thrifty fashion YouTuber with a bachelor's degree in psychology. So this is really just for fun, but I have a good feeling about these ones. Let's get into it. Obviously trends do not just turn over on January 1st, and I think a lot of the trends we have been seeing will continue into the new year. Specifically, I think sort of cutesy, girly styles, preppy styles, and sporty styles will all carry on and continue to evolve in the new year. I think I actually mentioned in another recent video that I have recently thrifted some sporty clothing because, well, I have never been a big like sports fitness person. I have started working out regularly in the past year or so because I realized giving my body more movement and making my muscles stronger does actually improve my quality of life. Who would have thought? And a tool I've gotten to try out recently that has been quite helpful with that is TrainWell, a unique fitness app that is also sponsoring today's video. Honestly, one of my biggest difficulties with working out is that I don't always know exactly what exercise will actually have the effects I'm looking for. Like I would love to have more energy and minimize the back pain I get when I'm on my feet a lot. I don't know what workouts to do for that. 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However, I think the biggest newer trend that will take over 2025 is boho. And you know what? I often dress on theme for videos, but this one wasn't even intentional. This is just what I wanted to wear today. So that's how you know the boho influences are present. If you follow the fashion industry and runways and stuff, you have definitely already seen this. The Khloe Fall Winter 2024 collection, which was sort of dubbed the new boho, was everywhere. It was heavily discussed and praised by like fashion industry people. But I feel like so far it's mainly just been about this particular collection, and it's only been a big thing for like fashion people, fashion industry people. Like my friends who are stylish but not like in fashion world don't know anything about this. Whereas in 2025, I really think this aesthetic will become like the strongest new trend in the mainstream. I think first and foremost it feels like a natural reaction to what has been popular recently. We've had a lot of more structured, hard, utilitarian fashion lately, like sportswear and office wear. And then we've also had a lot of very cutesy, girly fashion that's more like a bold, stylized, playful, girly feel. And I think this new boho look feels like a very natural next evolution because it takes the femininity and the softness of the girly fashion and the more subdued nature of the utilitarian fashion and combines them together, making the feminine fashion a bit subtler and the practical fashion a bit softer. Specifically, I'm picturing things like prairie dresses, lacy blouses, just lots of flowy, floaty garments, but then also styled with stuff like studs, buckles, leather, suede, fringe, maybe fur. Honestly, a lot of items that have already been trending lately, even if they haven't been styled in a boho way, really lend themselves to boho quite easily. Oh, and a lot of DIY or DIY looking fashion. All that said, two pieces that haven't really been trending lately that I could see having a comeback this year are gladiator sandals and peasant blouses. Not just like a fitted blouse with a puff sleeve, like a true billowy flowy peasant blouse style. Another billowy shape we've started to see already is of course the poncho, what I'm wearing today, and capes. I feel like those are in sort of the same category and they both work great with the boho style. I mean, the Chloe collection featured many capes. Maybe this is the year these finally like hit the mainstream. I don't know. They've been sort of a niche trend, but I could see them, you know, appearing like in the mall. I've also seen mixed metals start to pop up lately. I'd say this is already kind of a trend, but I think that will get way bigger because it really plays into the boho vibe. I also think this sort of rugged, free-flowing, natural worn-in vibe of boho creates a sense of eclecticism and realism that will appeal to a lot of people in 2025. The discourse lately in fashion has really turned to the prioritization of authenticity, or at least the idea of it, the signaling, the visual coding of authenticity. People have really moved away from a polished, perfect, curated aesthetic, which I think feels forced and fake and uncool to people and towards a worn-in, personalized, free-flowing aesthetic, which I think feels reflective of real life experiences to people, which then feels effortless and authentic and cool to people. Bohemian style totally fits that worn-in, natural, personal, free-spirited feel that people are really drawn to right now. I also totally see this manifesting in beauty trends this year as well. I think makeup that looks more like a natural flush, hair that looks just naturally tousled and windswept, less fillers and that sort of thing, just a general beauty vibe that looks like you just got done like riding a horse or something, versus the perfect blowouts and Instagram face we've been seeing. Speaking of Instagram face, I think this also has so much to do with nostalgia and social media. People think social media and the internet feels inauthentic, especially with the rise of AI. So I think by nature of association of fashion in this internet era also feels inauthentic to people, which I think is why people are so into this idea of authenticity in fashion right now. And I think many people perceive styles from before the ubiquity of algorithms to be innately more authentic. People are even nostalgic for old social media, like when social media first started and it was just your friends and there weren't any algorithms, it just showed you what you followed. Which is how we get to people talking about like old Coachella outfits or like the Olsen twins old street style with such nostalgic enthusiasm. With that in mind, I definitely see some of the subtler, more palatable elements of early 2010s fashion, which of course included a potentially resonating with people today. I'm thinking things like ditzy floral patterns, longer necklaces, thigh high boots, and honestly anything the Olsen twins would have worn, each of them really was that girl. They were those girls as a unit. Okay, so what I'm envisioning is that boho will become the biggest newer overarching fashion trend, but I also think a second overarching category will sneak in and start to rise this year. And that is 1920s fashion. This is something I haven't seen discussed much yet, but I keep seeing elements that I associate with 1920s fashion popping up more and more, and I can totally see this being an upcoming theme in fashion. Firstly, I've just seen a lot of 1920s-esque fashion on runways for 2025, which also includes many styles that we haven't really seen in a while, so they feel quite chic and fresh and different right now. The one I've seen the most is a straight, relatively loose-fitting column dress, usually with a drop waist, and usually with some sort of twist or tie or draping at the hips. That's very specific, but it is everywhere. I also mentioned longer necklaces with the boho look, but that is a very 1920s look as well. I'm also envisioning very sleek fitted caps or head scarves becoming bigger this year. I've been seeing it more and more, and I personally just find it very refreshing and chic looking. I feel like the biggest thing that makes 1920s fashion unique is that it feels glamorous and mysterious and exciting, but in sort of an unconventional and androgynous way. At the time, this silhouette was seen as this new very boyish shape. It doesn't show off, you know, a feminine curved figure the way fashion both before and after the 1920s did, and I don't know, this kind of feels like the perfect moment in fashion to bring that back. I think a lot of mainstream fashion trends recently have been a bit more conventional and also a bit boring. Like I said, we've had this harder, more utilitarian style and this like uber girly style, and while boho kind of combines both of those things, 1920s fashion kind of rejects both of those things. It's like glamorous and chic, but also not super conventionally feminine. So I could definitely see this also appealing to people after the trends we've had recently. Another sort of interesting factor here is that in the 1920s, this thin, curveless, almost prepubescent shape became held up as the fashionable body ideal. And uh, hmm, does a preoccupation with youth and thinness sound familiar at all to our contemporary ears? I do think it's quite interesting the difference in surrounding context from 100 years ago to today. Again, I am not a fashion historian, so I could definitely be wrong here. But my impression is that in the 1920s, this was sort of a new rebellious idea. It was framed in opposition to conventional femininity and conservatism, whereas now the obsession with youth and thinness most definitely is in alignment with a rising conservatism. So that places 1920s fashion in sort of this interesting place where like it's kind of this rebellious, different version of femininity, but it's also kind of still in alignment with certain conventional standards. So I don't really know if that like strengthens my argument for its potential popularity or weakens it. I just thought it was interesting. I'm curious to see how these values will play out in fashion. Another 1920s-esque trend that I see rising in 2025 is short hair for women. I do think hair is so much more individual now than it was in the past when like literally everyone was going long or short, whereas now I mean obviously both have been perfectly socially acceptable for many decades. But I do feel like long hair has been more culturally dominant in the past handful of years, maybe even increasingly so. It would have been hard for me to name a celebrity or influencer with short hair off the top of my head until like the past two months when I saw so many women I follow online or know in real life chop their hair off. I literally feel like no one I knew was doing a big chop and then all of a sudden it was so many people. I mean so many is like six people I know, so obviously that's anecdotal. And I don't think short hair will necessarily become more popular than long hair, but I do think it will grow in popularity this year. I think we may be at sort of a tipping point for certain representations of femininity and how we feel about that. I have certainly been feeling more tempted to cut my hair lately and I don't think I'm the only one. Another 1920s trend that I think is going to come back into fashion is cocoon coats. Honestly just because they haven't really been popular at all recently and they feel fresh and cool and exciting to me personally. And as I always say, whenever I find myself drawn to some new fashion thing that I think is really cool and fresh and exciting, usually I'm not the only one. We're all having the same reaction. I still don't understand what causes this. Again I think this shape feels glamorous yet unconventional, which may appeal to people this year. Maybe even cocoon cardigans as well. Who knows? Those still feel a little too like 2010s to me, but that hasn't stopped other things from coming back into fashion. So another note about the cocoon coat is that it's just a rounder shape and a lot of round shapes have also been trending lately. Barrel jeans, capes, bubble skirts. Maybe this is also a rejection of the curved feminine figure. I don't know, but cocoon coats are like the roundest shape you can give to an entire outfit. This is also another reason I think peasant blouses are going to become popular this year. That's also sort of a round shape. I also personally just find the textures and fabrics of the 1920s totally enchanting. Like beading, brocades, sequins, all that sort of ornate detail. Those ornate materials also bring us into my next predictions category, which I am going to call messy make-believe. I don't know if that name fully captures what I'm going for here, but basically I mean like detailed, ornate, fairy tale, or theatrical inspired fashion, but less like princess costume and more like nomadic folk story wizard. I'm thinking renaissance revival. I'm thinking Howl's Moving Castle. I'm thinking a little bit whimsy goth, but then if you took it in more of like a wizard knight court jester direction. Was that too online? Did that description make any sense? I'm picturing ornate fabrics, lots of layering and texture. We already talked about capes and ponchos with the boho, but I think those could totally play into this vibe too. Maybe even chain mail, but then I'm also picturing this vibe to be like a little ragged around the edges. Uneven hemlines, more muted or darker colors. A look that gives whimsical, but also kind of weird and also still maintains some mystique and subtlety. So what's my reasoning for this one? A few things. One, we had some really like bold kind of unhinged out there fashion for a couple years and then people were like, what are we doing? This is ridiculous. So then fashion became more like normie and practical and subdued and honestly kind of boring. Like in 2024, people just kept talking about how there are no new trends for 2024. So I feel like this kind of look makes sense to appeal to people who are craving creativity and novelty because it is creative and exciting and interesting. It's something different, but it's also still not too on the nose or over the top. The muted colors and textural details still feel grounded in reality. Reasoning number two, I do think with just, you know, a lot of people's economic situation right now, the ongoing crimes against humanity happening globally, the state of electoral politics, really just like the state of everything at this time. People want rebellion and they want escapism, but they don't quite have like the hope and security to truly buy into escapism and just ignore everything going on. And a lot of people also don't have the energy for a really intense, sustained, rageful sense of rebellion. So I feel like something sort of weird and outside the norm that also has a little whimsy, but also feels a little dark. I don't know. It fits the mood. I don't know if this framing is even going to make sense to anyone else but me, but I just think something that's kind of magical and powerful, but also kind of dark and gritty makes a lot of sense to appeal to a lot of people right now, especially women who are, of course, the drivers of the fashion industry. And to me, this actually feels like a less feminine, more androgynous take on the whimsical fantasy style compared to what we have seen over the past handful of years, which I also think will appeal to women more this year, like the 1920s looks, the shorter hair. I think we've been doing girly, girly, girly for long enough that women want something different. My third reason for this prediction is that I have also seen styles that give me this vibe on runways lately, on celebrities, and also so much in my Pinterest feed. Maybe that's just my algorithm, but I feel like just out of nowhere, I was seeing so much like magician fantasy inspo. Of course, we've also seen chain mail on the likes of Chapel Rowan. I just saw Cup of Geordie point out in a video that she saw like an influencer who was wearing like crowns for fun on Instagram. Yeah, it's a thing. The fantasy inspo is a thing. It feels very niche at this moment, and I think it'll stay relatively niche. I don't think this is necessarily going to be like the biggest mainstream trend in the world, but I do feel like the appeal is going to grow this year. I don't know. I just think it's going to be a vibe. Maybe just for me. Also, this sort of visual genre that I'm picturing has a lot in common with 1920s and boho fashion. All these things sort of have different little things interconnecting them. In this category of sort of like offbeat fantasy vibes, I could also see certain elements of theatrical costuming entering into mainstream fashion more this year, like clown slash circus aesthetics and also drag aesthetics. Honestly, drag especially makes sense to me with Chapel Rowan's popularity. I know she draws from drag aesthetically. She has referred to herself as a drag queen. I think that also plays into like the different forms of gender and femininity that I've been talking about throughout this video. I also feel like there are some big similarities between 1920s makeup and drag makeup. They're both sort of designed to emphasize expressiveness, and of course other theatrical and performance makeup functions quite similarly. So I could see this expressive, dramatic, vintage-inspired theatricality working its way into fashion more this year. Also, this is kind of a random specific one, but hand fans are sometimes used in drag. They were also like a thing in the 1920s and throughout much of history. I could see foldable paper hand fans becoming more of like a mainstream fashion accessory. That feels like a wild card, but I'm throwing it in here. Finally, I would like to close with some other sort of random miscellaneous predictions that don't fit into any of the other categories, but I still want to talk about them. One, pillbox hats. I've already started to see these. I think they're cool. I feel like we might see them more this year. Two, aviator sunglasses, or specifically this aviator shape, because I saw it on a couple different runways and I feel like this shape and sunglasses has not really been popular in a while, so they're due for a comeback. Three, anorak jackets. I feel like tactical, sporty, gorpy style has been so popular. I think that's definitely going to continue in this year. I didn't especially talk about it in this video because I have already talked about it and predicted it in previous videos, and it's already a trend. But I feel like the anorak jacket specifically has not really had a moment lately, not since I was in like high school, but I feel like they fit this perfectly. And again, it's been long enough that I feel like they could feel fresh and cool again. They kind of feel fresh and cool again to me, so I feel like other people are going to feel the same way. Four, we kind of already talked about this, but round bubble shapes have already been so popular, and I just think they're going to get even bigger. They're going to get more popular. It has so many applications that I didn't even talk about that aren't even trends yet, and I've been seeing it on so many runways. And I just think the round bubble silhouette is everything, and maybe 2025 will be the year of the round silhouette, the year of the bubble. And that's it. Wow, all the fashion trends I am foreseeing for 2025. As always, I am certain this will not be the end-all be-all of fashion this year. I think a ton of trends from 2024 will continue and roll over into 2025. I mostly just didn't include those because I thought they would be boring to talk about. I'm sure a lot of other things will also pop up that haven't even occurred to me. And who knows, maybe all of these predictions will be completely wrong. But these are the new the new fashion vibes I think we'll be seeing more of in 2025. I would love to hear what you think of these predictions, or any predictions of your own, in the comments. And I heard if you do leave a comment, watch another video, and subscribe, you will stick to all your 2025 resolutions throughout the year, and you'll finish the year feeling so successful and proud of yourself. I'm manifesting that for all of you. Happy New Year!