Every year, fashion trends come and go. It’s an inevitable cycle emphasized by the mentality, ‘new year, new me’. 2024 was a year chock full of new trends, ranging from bows and knee high boots to jorts and jerseys. As expected, some of these trends will live on to 2025 and some will be forced to stay in 2024. There will need to be new replacements for the trends lost, so what will fill this position?
One way that trends are often found is through celebrities. Whether it be their daywear, awards ceremony outfits or their concert attire, it is clear that they have a great influence on trending fashion.
LSE junior Camryn Wheeler believes that celebrities influence fashion trends through their status and admirability for fans.
“I think that they hold a very prestigious role to a lot of people and a lot of people look up to them. So if they see a celebrity they like wearing something cool, then they’ll kind of follow that.”
Senior Carolyn Skold agrees with the fact that celebrities affect fashion, but she adds that trends often circulate from previous generations.
“Past celebrities [will] bring stuff back or just past trends from the 2000s come back from our parents’ generation.”
Both Wheeler and Skold agree that social media has a large impact on the spread of fashion trends, specifically Pinterest. These trends can’t last forever though, and each trend has its own eventual downfall.
“A lot of trends are overdone or they turn into very fast fashion and a lot of people aren’t into that, so they kind of die out,” Wheeler said.
For Skold, “Time is the main thing.”
Looking back on 2024, a few trends Skold enjoyed were matching outfit and pajama sets, vintage watches and jewelry. However, she believes that many of those trends will carry on to 2025.
Wheeler’s favorite fashion items from 2024 include leopard print and big, chunky jewelry. She believes those items were popular due to their retro quality.
“I think they just are something that arose very vintage-y from the past, so I think a rise of that and then something new and unique to add,” Wheeler said.
Senior Finn Williams, who enjoys fashion because, “dressing cool is fun”, was a fan of the trends of brimless beanies, Sambas and camo print.
Additionally, each student has certain trends they believe will carry over from last year to this year. Skold believes that people having many ear piercings and earrings will carry over, as well as lots of jewelry in general.
One thing that Williams believes will continue into 2025 from last year is cheetah print but unlike Wheeler, he wishes it would stay behind in 2024. He is also not a huge fan of streetwear, for example, Jordans.
Although there are plenty of trends that Williams would like to stay in the past, he does have a couple predictions of new popular trends for 2025. He believes that denim on denim, zebra print, the color green and utility wear such as carpenter pants will be in style this year.
Skold thinks that what will be popular this year is belts with jeans, shoulder bags rather than backpacks and eyewear such as sunglasses or blue light glasses. She also could see neutral colors such as tan and beige as well as darker colors like navy and maroon being very in.
Wheeler agrees with the idea that dark colors will be popular this year. She also thinks that the ‘clean girl’ aesthetic may be replaced by a messier counterpart, featuring messier hair and more of a cluttered or chaotic vibe.
Overall, one thing the three students can agree on is that when people wear what they want and what they think is cool it makes them fashionable. Skold would go even further to say being trendy while it does relate to being fashionable, isn’t the criteria to have good fashion.
“I don’t necessarily think you have to be trendy [to be fashionable] but I think that people will look at you more if you are. Like, ‘oh my god that’s a trend’ like ‘she’s wearing this famous brand or whatever’. But I wouldn’t necessarily say it would make you fashionable. I think it’s very unique to each person and I don’t think it has to be based off of a trend.”
