A guest outside Fendi fashion show wearing a sleeveless Moncler Genius puffer jacket during the Milan Men's Fashion Week - Fall/Winter 2022/2023 on January 15, 2022 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Valentina Frugiuele/Getty Images)
Nostalgia has us in its grip! The pandemic has made a lot of us regress into our teenage selves, locked in our rooms, glued to our screens, waiting for the time when to go out at night. And we're not even exaggerating. And we're not the only ones; the fashion and luxury industries have also jumped into the arena, betting on gaming, streetwear and soccer to appeal to our "teenage" tastes.
What's up with the mania for teen-inspired trends? While the 1990s and 2000s are a big hit with women from Generation Z in fashion, it's the 'kidcore' trend that's making a splash in the jewelry industry, as well as in men's fashions. The goal? To dress like teenagers, or even pre-teens, fully-sized ones—in other words in a disheveled, warped, and somewhat jarring style. Perhaps we're being harsh on the young, but for the past few months fashion has become a commotion oscillating between extravagant, pre-apocalyptic, trashy, and total regressive styles.
And it's not just individuals who are looking back on their childhoods with nostalgia. Through its three latest passions—streetwear, soccer and gaming—the fashion and luxury industries also seem to be obsessed with adolescence, and with some of its main interests. This plunge into nostalgia is no doubt linked with a desire to appeal to and win over the youngest generations, such as Gen Zers, of course, but also the first wave of Alpha, which is now reaching pre-adolescence.
Something that has already led fashion, and more broadly luxury, to embrace a whole new passion, the metaverse. Is it a teenage thing? We don't know yet. These new worlds are still in their infancy, but they may allow us a nostalgic journey back into childhood.
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