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I'm Chelsea Hoy And each week we took all things fashion, whether it be trends, fashion week.

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But what are we talking about today, Chelse?

So it's New Year's Eve.

I'm sure everyone's got glamorous plans on how they want to celebrate tonight.

But it's been a big year.

We're now stepping into the new year, New Year, New Me.

Yeah, we're going to be breaking down our predictions for the biggest fashion trends coming up in twenty twenty six.

I love that.

What are your New Years Eve plans?

Chelves?

I am jetting off to the Maldves tomorrow for my honeymoon, which again I love to bring off every time I'm on here.

So nothing and are you well packed?

No?

No?

Getting ready?

What about you?

I will be having a couple of Margaritas, nine o'clock, fireworks and in bed by ten.

Love that I love an holy night.

Yeah.

So yeah, we are talking all things trends for twenty twenty six, which I love.

Before we get into that shells, what would you say are the key major trends we saw across twenty twenty five.

I mean there are a lot.

There are a lot.

I will pick some of my favorites.

So animal print, Yeah, it wasn't a new trend for twenty twenty five necessarily, but I think it's also one that will kind of stick around.

Yeah, for sure.

Different kinds of animal print, I think, but that was a big one and true.

Yeah, I guess the standards leopard and cheetah, but we see a bit more like the cow, like the cow sambas.

I love cow print, zebra print, all kinds of animal print.

Obviously, the barrel gene has been hugo.

You're a big fan of big fan.

Of jeans in general.

But I love your algene and the drama kind of of the shape.

And finally the color red.

Yeah, had a.

Real moment in twenty twenty five.

I remember, I mean New York Fashion Week.

In recent fashion week, we still saw red as a color that kind of will be going into twenty twenty six.

Really yeah, a really.

Nice like pop of color a staple, but it was it was a big color for twenty twenty five.

Yeah, for sure.

What were some of your favorite trends?

I love have to pick Poka dot.

I think it's just a nice way to add a bit of zest to your wardrobe because I find I love a black and white poka dot.

But they were like exploring different colors in the contrast with the two tones of polka dot.

But yeah, I did buy a fair bit of pok dot.

Actually yeah, it almost feels a little bit not neutral, but it's a print that's not too aggressive.

Absolutely agree, and especially in like the neutral colors, it's perfect.

You'll go with everything.

But it's interesting what you said about the trends which will carry on through like the animal print or even red.

For those who aren't aware, I work in trend forecasting and a lot of the when we break down the trends, it's into three different categories and it usually filters down this funnel.

It starts with emerging trends, and they're the trends that are on the rise in popularity so very much that early adopter, the cool girls are wearing it.

This is what eyeballs are on with fashion week, with street style, what people are wearing, and it really is tastemakers that could start these trends and it appears in really small quantities, and that's hopefully what we're going to give you guys today.

We want to launch into some of the twenty twenty six trends that we're seeing, but that real emerging trend, but then from there it trickles down into commercial.

Trends and the viability.

So for example, they saw animal print really pop off in twenty twenty five, hence why they're going to carry it through to twenty twenty six.

So commercial trend.

Is something like you mentioned Chelse, where it's going to carry through if they've got that commercial viability.

Maybe an example that one which wouldn't carry through as a laboo boo it's a fun charm.

Is also like a micro trend exactly right.

Those micro trends are fun for a moment and a year, but they don't nest necessarily trickle through and then it's a maintenance, maintaining trend, and they're the ones that are almost like ongoing like neutral, minimalist style.

Light lubusury, quite luxury.

There's always going to be a customer and a consumer for quite luxury.

And I find a lot of the time people say, oh, that's that trend, We've seen that before.

That's sort of exactly what you want in a trend, one that's going to last a while.

And if you are interested in buying and investing in a trend, you sort of want one that goes from that emerging trend down to.

A commercial trend.

Yeah.

So anyways, that's sort of a bit of looking at how we look at trends.

But like I said, we're going to look at some of the top trends in twenty twenty six that we're going to predict, and Chelse, I'd love you to kick us off with your first trend you think we'll be seeing.

So trend number one for me is lace.

So Pinterest every year does the sort of prediction not just with fashion, across the board for like a bunch of different areas in terms of what they think will kind of be trending what people are looking for, And it's sort of based on search volume and just predicting what people want and what they're looking for.

So according to Pinterest, lace is going to be everywhere.

I love that, and I don't.

I think that's quite in line of what we saw at fashion week.

Yeah, in general, we saw a lot of sheer garments and lace, like lace trimmed silks, beautiful crochet dresses I'm thinking of like tom Ford had these beautiful black lace shirts and dresses Totem as well crochet dresses and lace shawls.

So I think that is in line with what we were seeing this past fashion week and what will kind of be at the forefront.

But what I think is interesting Pintrest also includes a bunch of like search terms that people have been searching, so it's not just lace garments, but accessories are going to be huge, So search terms like lace bandanas, lace belts, those are really trending upwards.

Copenhagen Catilier was one of the crochet lace friends, beautiful one off dresses.

And playing in that sustainability.

But yeah, I love I love that that's going to be a trend.

And in accessories, yeah, I.

Think I love that because the obvious is like lace camis and lace stresses.

Obviously now people putting them over jeans as well.

Well, that's like a huge trend.

But I think what will be interesting is seeing lace accessories kind of come to the front, like hairbands, bandanas.

Belts, and the lace cap.

The lace cap even for weddings.

That's really trending.

So that could be a whole other episode within itself, looking at trends within bridle.

Right, Yes, we have to do that.

That's always wedding fashion.

Trust Yeah, I love those caps.

It's interesting that you said accessories because I might jump into my first predictions and it is all around.

I'm just calling an accessory addiction.

There's been this.

Huge shift in interest in shopping behavior around buying accessories, and I think that's just the economic landscape and where we're at, and it's an entry point into buying luxury goods.

So the aspirational shopper who may once have bought a bag can't necessarily afford that now and want some sort of entry point in So it might be some sort of charm or a key chain or whatnot.

Talking of charms, why I said that they're huge within the PRATA and Gucci really led the way with charms and sort of trinket type pieces and we're seeing it a lot with visual merchandising, and it's just a coom shoots.

They're really putting a spotlight on accessories, so sort of showing that's how the consumers are shopping at the roment.

Yeah, I think interesting that you mentioned like consumer behavior changing.

I think gen Z has a lot to do with that.

And with the state of the world and the cost of living crisis, we've seen this huge movement towards like emotional escapism, so the whole movement towards trinkets, bag charms, like cute, little, low barrier to entry items that aren't expensive but spark a lot of joy.

I think that idea of collecting and swapping and customizing is something that people are really really yearning for at the moment.

I love that and your own unique style.

I find like our source at the moment for style inspiration is all at the same We're all looking at TikTok, We're all looking at Instagram, so we are all looking the same.

And there's always a joke around like, you know, gen Z all look the same in their low rise baggy jeans and like a white crop top, but how can they make that look different?

And that's through the charms that they collect.

There was a really interesting podcast by the Business of Fashion on the Debrief Pod, and they did a really great episode called why is.

Everyone Obsessed with Accessories?

And they sort of deep dived into why we have so much hype around the La boobos which we mentioned before and accessory stacking, but how are they actually going to see this accessory addiction come to life.

It's not just wearing more of what we own and doing lots of layering.

It's also this double stacking.

So I think we spoke about that, this sort of double fashion week.

Yeah, but it's how can you wear double of watches?

So I was gonna shoot the other day and they had styled.

The stylists had two like roll ex much stacked up.

It's the double belts.

It's the double finger rings.

Remember that was really big in the nineties with that wiresl or like the cement what's that brand?

Samoantha Will Yeah, so those sort of big double ring that revival will come through broaches.

Double bags as well.

We literally just saw this on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Rachel Zoe was carrying around two bags and this is sort of like we're talking about the oversized bag being really big, but you also want to have your micro bag and it adds a little bit of personality, so carrying two around.

So this double accessories is going to be really prevalent in twenty twenty six.

I love that as like a maximalist Curley myself.

This is like the return of everything agreed.

We keep talking about maximalism is going to sort of come back in and we're sort of waiting for that, but this is sort of the entry point of maximalist and how we can experiment.

It's through accessories.

We're not going to be seeing those hugely outrageous outfits at the moment.

It's just play around with accessories and maybe throughout the next couple of years it'll turn into outfits with maximalism at play.

Yeah.

I also so love the sort of rejection of this idea that things are gaudy or that too there's such thing as too much.

I think gen Z as a generation really rejects that notion, and hence why these maximalist trends are really coming back and coming to the forefront.

Yeah.

Yeah, and it's also probably worth noting like two things can live simultaneously, Like we spoke about quite luxury, and that minimalist look can run alongside that maximalist approach.

So there's always going to be multiple trends at play, and it's just picking what you prefer and what suits your style.

Yeah, all right, number two, Chelse, What have we got?

So my second trend are strong silhouettes, so kind of bold shapes, both for outerwear and also bottoms.

Yeah, so looking back at fashion week, we saw a lot of really structured jackets with strong shoulders, like Singe to Waste.

That shape, that kind of that kind of triangle shape was really really in.

I'm thinking of Stella McCartney.

There was this gorgeous gray suit on the runway which was really boxy and dramatic.

The same with Selene double breasted black blazer waist look.

I even just saw Suobey come out with that sort of really cinched in waist, oversized but then the sinched in that it's.

So dramatic, just so elevated.

But also with bottoms, I think that's a really unique way to play with shape.

I remember we spoke about Kate.

Those polka dot skirts they had on the runway were just really voluminous had really interesting pleading on them and thinking of a liar, one of my favorite pieces from fashion week was this pink skirt that had this really modern take on like a panel waistline or kind of sinched in like that, super super dramatic.

I think we're going to see a lot of structured shoulders and cinch waists kind of trickle down to high street like trench coats, blazers and things.

And I also think that's why the barrel jean has really done so well this past year and why it's going to continue to be a trend in twenty twenty six.

I know you can get more subtle versions of a barigie, but you can also get really dramatic shapes.

Yeah, and it just adds so much drama to the look, and I think that's what we're looking forward to in twenty twenty.

Trouns and the balloon pants as well have been beer yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah.

It's interesting how with this trend you don't need to be reinventing the wheel with trends, it's just playing around with that tailoring and construction of a piece.

Yeah, And I think, you know, with the idea of cinching.

It doesn't have to be purchasing a new piece that has a specific shape.

You can also belf your blazers.

That's something you can do at home.

I think it's just looking at what kind of shapes are trending.

I love that actually, or tailoring pieces that you don't wear exactly.

Yeah, I love that.

I actually did that recently.

Yeah, I bought a really I was in sales.

I think we spoke about this, which we should not do, but it was like a four sizes too big jacket and I sinched in the waist and sort of made it quite dramatic with that, like a really cinched in way.

So it was sort of unintentional that it worked out that way, but it actually works.

Yeah, it works really well.

Love it all right.

So my next one, I've been sort of stewing for a little bit and it's all around.

Activewear and I had to wear Queen.

Yeah, I just had to happen one.

But we'll be seeing the return of like two thousand's activewear.

I've been watching the active war category and like predicting there'd be some sort of shift, right, like we saw a change from twenty twenty up to say twenty twenty four during COVID and like this coin term at leisure were and it was all this sort of mutual matching sets which everyone loved, think Lulu Lemon Alo Yoga, and it was this beautiful like Pilates Girl, Hot Girl Summer Walk.

But we all sort of started looking the same and it was starting to feel very same, same, dull, boring.

So I think we're going to start seeing a shift again.

A lot of these trends are influenced by gen Z, and I think this shift has come.

Just purely out of boredom.

I also think this is why Nike and the Skim's collaboration has it really popped off like they anticipated, so I think it was the marketing director of Nike said they predicted this to be the next.

Sort of Michael Jordan Air sort of.

Moment and collaboration, which I don't think it's had that cultural effect.

Yeah, it might be big within sort of the fashion zeitgust and somewhat interesting, but it's playing in that outdated space of matching sets that I feel like we're moving on from, which gen Z is leading to charge with.

So it's coming back to sort of a nineties two thousand revivals, So think really loose runner shorts, soccer shorts, basketball singlets, hit bone grazing, loose shorts like basketball shorts.

There was even an article I think it was in New York Times, but it's all over TikTok as well, where gen Z speak about how the tights are just cringe and so millennial like leggings and millennial.

But then a lot of us go, what on earth we meant to wear?

It's this sort of stuff which feels sort of scary, like how do you wear like hip like pe Nation have some low rise sort of like basketball shorts out at the moment.

It's an interest, it's a change and it's a shift.

Maybe it's wearing trackies as well to the gym.

But this space is one to watch and we'd be seeing lots more color, lots more print within active wear, which sounds a little bit scary used to change all those prints, but I think that of course I'll be reinvented and a little bit more like modern and something that we'll be into.

Yeah, oversized shirts.

Think of like Zoe Kravis was spotted wearing the soccer shorts.

Heel love that and yeah, I think why the shift.

Like I said, it's the board were all bord of that cookie cutter look, but the price tag as well in the dropping quality.

You know, there's been lots of controversy around around so I think everyone's just tired and sick of it and they're just changing the way and having a bit more fun with it.

Yeah, there has been this trend amongst gen Z as well well, of sort of rejecting more traditional beauty standards and what it means to be fashionable and fashion forward, and the rejection of uniformity and perfection, which I think millennials were really really chasing for a long time.

So the idea of mismatched colors, missmashed prints, something that looks a bit grungier and almost ugly.

You know, we talk about.

Ugly sneakers being so trendy right now and gen Z loving like chunky dad sneakers and you know things that maybe like five ten years ago we would have called ugly.

That is almost a fashion trend in itself.

To not be quote unquote attractive.

Is so true.

It's like a macro trend, this revolt against like the wellness culture, clean girl aesthetic, that sort of vibe.

Yeah, absolutely.

Just on last vital note on activewear, we'll be seeing advanced technology with like non toxic active weear u the protection active where moisturizing infused bike shorts.

Wow, always having that sort of benefit which we're seeing everything needs to have like a benefit these days or be optimized.

So that will also be sort of a new innovation we'll see within active wear.

Yeah, I love that, all right, what's your third one, Chelse?

So my final trend also in the accessories space is fringe, which I love.

I don't know how you feel, like, Okay, no, it's not for everyone.

I love it.

So fringe has been kind of a staple in recent collections and seasons, but this season it really popped up through both clothes and accessories.

Looking back to fashion Week, Baumann showcased a bunch of fringe bags.

One that really sticks at in my mind was this gorgeous green kind of like sagey green fringe crossbody.

There were fringe dresses, jackets, pants really all over the runways, or like fringe detailing on the caulfs of hems of like a simple jacket.

But I think accessories is a really easy entry point fringe at the moment, I don't believe I do, but I would love a fringe bag.

Later when we get to Boujie budget, I'm going to talk through like some of the things I would love, but I would love like a fringe clutch.

I think that's a really nice way.

And also I've seen a lot of accessories like jewelry, so ear rings, even like necklaces that really coming back and fringe being kind of like a statement.

That's right, Michael Cole's had those big long fringe earings.

Yeah, yeah, your fashion week.

I always picture just fringe being in a suede, but there'd be other materials, right, like other fabrications where they.

I've seen actually like a denim fringe in like earring form, which I think is really fun.

Yeah, that's something like a nice like pop to add to your outfit.

Fringe almost feels like a neutral statement where it is like a texture that's going to add something to your outfit.

But because you can get it in softer materials and colors, it's not something that's too abrasive.

I get what you mean, like it's no offensive.

Yeah, yeah, exactly, so true.

Yeah, I like it.

I don't own any fringe at the moment, it's going to be one of those mass commercialized ones where you can just get anything from.

Like Levisa or whatever.

So it would be good where it'll be affordable and you can play around with it, like the denim fringe earrings like you're talking.

Yeah, I might even invest to be on and like a fringe boot.

I think that's really fun.

I think yeah, And obviously the cowboy boot is really in general.

I was going to say, even just that cowboy western trend will be huge in that space.

I think yeaheah, nice, I love it, love Okay, So what is your final.

Last trend is funnel neck jackets.

We were staying off Mike how it's so hard trying to just use three trends each year.

There are so many little go to popping off next year.

So yeah, funnel neck jacket.

As the name suggests, it's a jacket that has that sort of popped big collar standing up.

Yeah, like a funnel.

It's usually on outerwear jackets.

Bean leather swayed any sort of bomber jacket.

It started with Phoebe Filo when she was at the Tenure of Selene, but that was two thousand and eight.

To twenty seventeen, and she really made this her signature look and her those leather jackets of hers with the Selene.

The funnel neck jacket is so coveted right now and they're really hard to get your hands on.

Hailey Beaver's always sported wearing it, but ever since then, I feel like it's been this really cool girl jacket look, and it's also been seen on people like Rosy Huntington Whitely Lylah Moss, for example at Paris Fashion Week this year.

And it's a silhouette that I feel it feels really timeless but almost dramatic, like what you were saying with the silhouettes, and I guess it is one of those silhouettes like what he was saying.

It's a bowl, it's directional, it's a statement piece without being too overpowering.

I feel like that's almost like a overarching theme that we're seeing with all of our trends.

You want something.

That's different but not too different, sort of playing into that quiet maximalist.

Place like the accessories.

So we saw a lot at Fashion Weeks labels such as Victoria Beckham.

I don't know if you've seen a docover, but I think she's wearing one.

She's wearying.

I was about to say her documentary, there's a scene where she's trying on the funnel on the jacket.

It's so cheap, nice.

Yeah, I love them.

Cela McCarney.

I don't own one yet, Chloe did it.

Kate featured one as well in their Full Wind but also Spring Summer twenty six.

So it's proven to be a trend that has this power to.

Stay around for the foreseeable future.

Yeap and Google searches are up one hundred percent in fuddleneck leather jackets specifically, although it comes in different fabrications.

Yeah, yeah, I kind of personally like it.

It gives this sense of armor.

Or protection, which I like.

I love that, so yeah, definitely I'll be investing in one of those.

I think I recently bought.

Added Us has done this Chinese New Year exclusive that's only available in Hong Kong and China, and it's kind of this tracksuit jacket that's got these Chinese styled buttons, but it's a high neck, funnel neck where when you zip it up, it's like that.

So even globally, we're really seeing this trend take off already.

That's a really good point as well.

It's not just like leather jackets.

It's added us Yeah.

Tracksuits, like I've seen it done with denim.

That trend.

We're going to really start to see it pop up across the board.

I think, yeah, it's very expensive.

How mud are these five percent?

Should we get into bougie and budget?

Let's do it.

So what we're buying for twenty twenty six ChEls?

Do you want to kick us off with your budget?

Yes, So talking about the theme of bold shapes, interesting silhouettes and kind of more unique bottoms.

I am looking at getting the bubble middi skirt in cream from virg Girl.

It's one hundred and twenty nine dollars and it's just such a fun way to get into that trend.

It's a little bit subtle.

It's something that you can wear every day.

It's not going to be too abrasive if you're someone who's worried about branching out.

It's subtle enough but still adds something a little bit interesting to the hem of your skirt.

I'm loving this.

I'm just looking at it now.

It reminds me a little bit of the Calvin Klient collection.

New York.

Yeah sort of.

Yeah, okay, so my budget is some of the sort of sporty shorts that you're talking about.

So the Zoe Cravis reference.

These ones are Sumi Sumi, they called the sporty short.

They're in red with the double line in aqua on the side.

Cool and they're actually styled online with a heel, which I'd sort of intend of wearing them with a heel out and about, yeah, rather than like actually to the gym.

I think yeah, And i'd sort of wear it with a white singlerd oversized shirt.

I could probably wear it in.

The office here, but obviously out depending where you work.

But there are one hundred and seventy nine dollars for a little short short Australian brand.

Yeah, yeah, love.

I think yeah.

The look of like a sports short pad with a heel, it's.

So so cool, girl, I love it.

Love Bougie, my Bougie talking about Fringe, who was saying, if I'm going to get into fringe, I am, I am, I actually I'm going to get back.

I may wait.

I've kind of missed the boat, but I think I will wait till girl themseelve because it is nine hundred and fifty dollars, which for a bag I wouldn't say is ridiculous.

I agree, Yeah, you're not spending the thousands on a luxury bradbit.

What brands this?

So this is Coach and it's sort of a Swed fringe.

It's called the Swede Fringe Brooklyn shoulder bag.

It's in this kind of brown color, massive tote.

I think this could be considered like a work bag as well.

So it's a nice neutral color, but the fringe just adds something so cool.

That's good.

Don't you find Coach is having a bit of a comeback as.

Well, especially for big bags.

They're totes on point.

Real cool fifty.

I love that.

And your bougie, My bougie is so you spoke about fringe accessories.

I spoke about the funnel neck jacket.

This is a soft leather funnel neck jacket from next similar vein to the Coach that you provided, where it's not luxury luxury.

It's a six hundred and ninety dollars jacket, which I think.

For a leather jacket is right.

Okay, Yeah, so it's that sort of Yeah, it's still bougie, but you're not spent You can spend up to.

You know, you can sent thousand on a loather jacket on a leather jacket, so six hundred ninety dollars soft leather as well.

It's got that sort of lived in worn look which I quite like from Next Online Love.

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