The 2024 Fashion Trends to Start Shopping Now
glamour.com—Y2K and —seemed to be at odds with each other. The latter championed simplicity over sparkle, and investment pieces over one-season wonders.
The other was pure fun and nostalgia. So what do the experts—and the runways—foresee for 2024?“I think if prices for luxury goods continue to remain as high as they currently are, we’ll see the ‘quiet luxury’ trend stick around for a bit longer,” predicts Emilia Petrarca, who writes the fashion Substack . “It’s just too expensive to take risks on pieces that you might not like five, ten years down the line.
Timeless pieces are perhaps a better investment." Still, she doesn't think we're headed for a year of unexciting clothes. Instead, "People are interested in trying a timeless sort of elegance or opulence—not just a boring beige minimalism that’s perhaps safer.”One safe bet: Secondhand fashion will continue to be hugely popular.
But Petrarca thinks we'll move away from the Y2K aesthetic. As does Jenny Walton, writer of on Substack. “I’ve been waiting to see if there will be a sort of 1920s resurgence, followed by a 1930s long silk bias cut dress resurgence,” she says.
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