Trends You Are Sick Of...

[audace]

I involuntarily grimace and my skin instinctively crawls nauseously whenever someone says…”luxury” [when 99% of the time it isn’t]. That overused word is in the same standing as “classy”, and only conjures seething and loathing these days.)

This statement is i-co-nic.

On a serious note, everyone with a basic colour palette and with a gym membership being a microblogger with an OF in the side, because outside of thirsty people nobody cares about their "style".

Yes, we get that you work out. No, wearing a tank top with an ASOS necklace and Zara Man big pants do not make you a fashion connoisseur.

 

[audace]

Also, fashion + lifestyle "influencers, critics, and educators" that create nonsensical buzz with shallow sarcastic/memeable criticism, but this is more often happening in menswear space now.

I remember like before we had Style Zeitgeist and the Julius, Owens, Demeulmeester, Andrea Ya'aqov, Isabel Benenato... crowd was versus the mainstream luxury crowd of Diors, YSLs and etc. at the time.

Now it is the same, but the former brands switched to The Soloist, Visvim, Lang, Suicoke, still Owens, Stone Island and co., while the latter ones to BV, Loewe, Jacquemus...

I miss when actually stylish and knowledgeable people were on the discussion. When Roitfeld was going through her looks, photo of hers in her Rick skirt and Chanel jacket, effortless, personal and chic. Or Daphne Guinness mixing Van Herpen and Dior.

The fashion "experts" gatekeeping is such a cheap trick for getting the "clout".

 

[EDEN21]

Workwear (*cough* carhartt *cough*) on people that have literally or metaphorically never worked a day in their lives, and an overlapping style: American South/Midwestern/Hunting attire on Metropolitan Yankees. I am a North Eastcoaster myself and I think it's asinine when people from my area wear cowboy boots and camouflage when they would never in their lives hunt, do trade work, or live further than 50 miles from a major metropolitan.

Also, I don't find that aesthetic sufficiently stylish to excuse its misappropriation

 

[blueorchid]

This is very specific... but my coworker who either cosplays as Tom Ford *or* only wears Carhartt.

 

[kasper!]

Blogger Brand...like Annie Bing.

 

[KoV]

^ it's disgusting!

I have a coworker who wears suits but for whatever reason he keeps choosing cigarette type of pants (two sizes too small cause he works out of course). Another, younger coworker once said that he wished his suits looked like that on him and I couldn't help but immediately say 'are you serious!?'.. the looks these men gave me! they were all like 'you don't like the way x looks!? we all want to look like him!' 🤣. So you want to dress like Jojo Siwa, great. I don't care if you're ripped, just go on google, look up 'henry cavill suit' or something and figure it out! calves and butt should never protrude in a men's suit, I know nothing about suits but will die on this hill!

 

[Lola701]

People wearing toiletry bags as pochettes…
It’s ridiculous.

 

[IsabelMarantBoy]

People wearing toiletry bags as pochettes…
It’s ridiculous.

And then when you try and shop for bags anywhere online it's sellers who attached some amazon chain/shoulder strap to it and are charging upwards of $300 for them, it's ridiculous!

 

[Phuel]

People wearing toiletry bags as pochettes…
It’s ridiculous.

LMFAO …Perhaps they didn’t know it’s a toiletry bag? The desperation to carry logos/monograms/signatures no matter what it’s on, just to impress, is ridiculously depressing.

It’s the same as adult show-and-tell haul videos. The fawning over crass logo/monogram/signature merch without any hint of criticism is why all these brands can get away with offensively high prices for trash. More than anything, flexing is so gross. And that adults feel the need to show and tell on the interweb what useless states symbols they just bought without the self-awareness to feel embarrassed on just how crass the behaviour is, can only be another step towards the downfall of Western civilization that's spearheaded by those Kardashians. (…Or it’s just an unpleasant reminder to when I was little and my family had just moved to another country, and still being poor, I dreaded my turn on Show and Tell day-- since I didn’t have a new toy to show and tell LOOOL)

 

[blueorchid]

@KoV I especially feel confused when I see men dressed like that during the winter. It's -15C, you're allowed to wear socks that cover your ankles and longer pants. It's ok.

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[ThePurpleHeart]

The trend of luxury brands collaborating with celebrities. I believe this is what started the decline of luxury fashion . Once luxury brands like Gucci , Versace , LV and Balmain etc. Started working with rappers , singers and the Kardashian's it started to cheapen the image of the brands . Even Gucci Mane doesn't wear Gucci anymore.

 

[ThePurpleHeart]

I forgot to mention Chanel and Miu Miu . It's like they only make clothes for kpop artists now.

 

[KoV]

That has never really annoyed me much. Maybe because I don't think "luxury" brands and their clientele are or have ever been above celebrities. Kim Kardashian and K-Pop stars aren't any less worthy of respect or emulation than some anonymous wealthy trophy wife who might be deemed a more ideal Chanel client. Word in the society pages that some socialite wore some designer to some event has been replaced by football players in head-to-toe logos photographed arriving at a game or Cardi B rapping about collecting her 87th Birkin. It was always keeping up with the Joneses. Trying to engage people's worst instincts to push overpriced products. In some cases, a celebrity collaboration or association may help ruin the illusion, but it was always an illusion.

95% of what each of those brands has produced has been forgettable and overvalued. It's the brands' own celebrity status, in many cases, rather than quality or "luxury" that has allowed them continued success. You have people who can't even pay their bills watching unboxing videos, gasping in delight when they see the interior of the cardboard box containing the bag being opened by a stranger on the inernet is navy blue colored, which means it's a limited edition! How special! One day, if they're very lucky and work very hard, they too can invest in a Hermes bag!

 

[Phuel]

I understand what @ThePurpleHeart means of the lowered standard of whom is now associated with high-end/high fashion brands. It’s why high fashion is plagued with this cheapness nowadays.

Those socialites/Real Housewives/golddiggers that were the equivalent of the reluctantly accepted Untouchables into high fashion of a past fashion era at least made the effort to elevate themselves to high fashion/couture standards. But even someone like Paris wasn’t accepted by high fashion, since no amount of wealth could ever hide the stench o her trash. Nowadays, Cardi/Kardashians/Megan, whom all looks/sounds/drenched in absolute trash despite all the wealth and popularity, are just prompted as high fashion royalty, without having earned any standards whatsoever other than that they have the flex. And it isn’t about race, because growing up in the 90s, artists like Neneh Cherry/Lauryn Hill/Erykah Bad were immensely influential in their style, associated with certain creatives and even brands, but were never desperately pushed in your face, so their cool was genuine and earned. Women of their highest creativity, style and beauty standards just don’t exist anymore in fashion, unfortunately.

The blatant blind greed for profits has become so hilariously gross from LVMH/Kering/Prada that “luxury” only means the most offensively expensive logo’d/monogrammed/signature basics in limited edition, worn by Lebron James. I wouldn’t carry anything from Vuitton if I were pay since it’s a brand that’s associated with the lowest of common denominators that even Nicolas can’t escape from. Vuitton has finally become the trashiest brand out there.

 

[NYLA22]

Vuitton has finally become the trashiest brand out there.

It is really fascinating to me how LVMH has allowed Vuitton to become so degraded. It really is probably the most tacky brand in "luxury" today (that's how I think of it, at least). Thinking about Marc's first runway show in 1998 to what it is now is quite remarkable. But when money is all that matters, I guess they got what they wanted.

 

[Drusilla_]

^I get what you guys mean but at the same time I also think that the obsession with anonymous 'Quiet Luxury' (gag me with a spoon, I think 2024 had more people getting sick of it) items from The Row+ needing to declare it loudly on insta and substack that your ill fitting black coat or towel or 'quirky' kick flare trousers or literal plastic shoes are from brands that 'the right crowd' knows retails them for high 3, 4 figures in dollars , is just as spiritually tacky as the logo fiends

at least the latter are honest about what they're seeking whereas the former just sound like people who'd never buy their 'perfect', anonymous 'wear it forever' unless they could declare it to an audience on their substack or ig.

 

[adieuamour]

Hate hate hate that the gals are still doing the slick back bun, I just think there is a very specific time and place for this style and it's certainly not paired with a white tank, those MASSIVE jorts and the latest hiking trainer.

It still pains me to think of the latest Victoria Secret fashion show and the god awful mix of limp, dead hair and the slick back replacing the bounce we used to see.

 

[adieuamour]

Also want to add I hate the trend towards a general lack of dressiness or "dressing up". What happened over the course of the last 20 years? I remember back in the day everyone had a few good blazers in their closet, some nice winter coats, collared shirts/blouses and skirts or trousers.

I see my peers now "dressing up" and it's a barn/chore jacket with a t-shirt or sweatshirt underneath, and the most unflattering jeans you could imagine! I just hope the pendulum swings back to a little more of a polished sensibility, I'm tired of everyone looking like a walking Madewell or Everlane campaign.

Absolutely, I also feel like it's getting especially rare to see a heel in a city, most being replaced by chunky boots, trainers or platform sandals. I understand practicality and comfortability to some degree, but at the expense of your entire outfit? never worth it.