2025 fashion trends: Nostalgia is still in, so are animal prints

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Nostalgia is likely to trend in 2025 as well, going by runway fashion, and the Golden Globes, the year’s first red carpet event and a fashion pageant of sorts.

You can see the trend continuing at home, if you sift through the latest collections of homegrown designers, racks of fast-fashion brands and trawl the ’gram for celebrity looks. It’s there to see in corduroy dresses and shirts (The Row made them a thing in its spring 2025 collection), trench coats in different shapes (Kriti Sanon wore a feathered one to the London fashion week, while Diljit Dosanjh kept it a simple black for his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi), and unending interpretations of corsets.

Besides this classicism, there are many trends that will rule 2025, and here are some suggestions to keep you looking your best for the rest of the year. PLAY WITH MOTIFS More brands are adding playful, often childhood-dipped, motifs to fashion.

In the Milan showcase of his spring-summer 2025 collection, for instance, Dhruv Kapoor put his childhood stuffie, a fabric bunny, as a print on dresses, pyjamas and jackets. Moschino, meanwhile, has added the sunshine yellow smiley emoji on jumpers, tees and bags, perhaps indicating a desire to a reconnect with simpler, more cheerful times.

A similar pull towards a “slower, more deliberate pace is driving the emergence of the ‘villagecore aesthetic’, which embraces the simplicity and richness of rural life," Anuradha Chandrashekar, co-founder and chief creator of ICH NEXT, a homegrown trend forecast platform for fashion retail that has clients like Myntra and Amazon, told Lounge. She predicts patterns and motifs inspired by folk art, like Gond Bhil, Warli and Chittara, will