When the filmmakers and celebrities aren’t attending premieres, screenings and official fêtes, they’re enjoying all that Venice has to offer, and they’re doing so in style—the Venice Film Festival is where you’ll find some of the best off-duty looks, because is there really any better backdrop than that of a Venetian gondola?
While last year’s Venice Film Festival was a somewhat sleepier event due to the SAG-AFTRA and WAG strikes, the 2024 edition is back in full force, with highly anticipated movies including Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, and Pablo Larrain’s Maria, starring Angelina Jolie, set to premiere.
The 81st annual Venice Film Festival runs from August 28 through September 7, so get ready for 11 days of incredible fashion. Below, take a look at the best off-duty looks from all your favorite stars at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.
Easy mix and match outfit building with a denim jacket.
In 1873, Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss inadvertently forever changed fashion and pop culture by patenting a pair of sturdy work pants made from indigo cotton corduroy, reinforced with copper rivets. Blue jeans, as they’ve come to be known, have become such a universal symbol of casual style it’s hard to imagine what the last 100 years would look like without them.
As denim’s popularity grew, it quickly extended beyond jeans to create another wardrobe essential: the jean jacket. First introduced by Levi’s around 1880, the jean jacket has since become a cornerstone of effortless style, valued for its simplicity and ease in pulling together outfits.
Jean jackets are a wardrobe staple for good reason – their decades-old, straightforward design makes them incredibly easy to wear, no matter the occasion. Whether you’re dressing down with a t-shirt and jeans or layering it over a sweater for cooler days, a jean jacket instantly adds a touch of casual cool to your look.
What you think of when you hear “jean jacket” is actually a specific style, that originated as the Levi’s Type III Trucker Jacket, introduced in the 1960s. The Type III, known for its cropped, waist-length cut, slim tailored fit, chest pockets with pointed flaps, and iconic “V” stitching, represents a more specific style within the broader jean jacket category but there are other styles that can work just as effectively, like my denim chore coat in a few of the outfits below.
The best part about denim jackets, like their blue jean cousins, is that nearly every brand in every price range makes one. Like the simple t-shirt or chino, the jean jacket is classic style democratized.
To help you make the most of your jean jacket, we’ve created an outfit “swipe file” featuring our favorite jean jacket looks from Primer over the years.
If you’re new to the concept, a swipe file is a curated collection of ideas or examples that you can save and refer to whenever you need inspiration. Originally used in advertising and design, swipe files have become a handy tool for organizing creative ideas across various fields.
→ In this case, it’s a collection of jean jacket outfit ideas that you can keep in an album on your phone, Pin to a style board on Pinterest, or organize in a more elaborate system with a tool like Notion or Evernote for easy reference. Whereas a moodboard is intended to visualize an overall feeling of a style in total, a swipe file is designed to be used individually as a template.
These outfits can be recreated exactly as shown, but they’re also meant to be flexible starting points—whether you’re experimenting with color combinations, layering techniques, new fits, or specific pieces to pair with your jean jacket.
Jean Jackets Over T-Shirts:
Resin rinse denim trucker jacket over olive henley worn with light gray jeans and tan suede boots
A denim chore coat over a cream t-shirt with loose green chinos
“We have seen AI blow up in the past few years, and as the world becomes increasingly digital and looks towards the future, it’s no surprise that fashion is drawing inspiration from these technological shifts,” Agus Panzoni, TikTok creator and trends spokesperson for Depop, tells Refinery29. According to Panzoni, searches for “Y3K” on Depop have increased by 250% since the beginning of the year. Over on Pinterest (U.K.), the same search term has more than doubled since May. “The Y3K trend is playful and experimental. It’s often embodied by holographic elements, neon color schemes, and innovative materials such as neoprene and vinyl,” Panzoni says.
If you used to love putting together first-day-of-school outfits, August will always bring the familiar excitement of starting something new. Now, whether or not our school days are behind us, our favorite brands’ fall collections are packed with the same new-season fun. The latest arrives in the form of Spanish brand Massimo Dutti’s Back to Office collection which, as the name suggests, comes chock-full of stylish suits, durable handbags, and shoes you can wear all day long.
If lace gives you a suffocating, doily-adjacent feeling, we get it. But this season, the look is shedding its old-fashioned image with renewed touches that are anything but stuffy, instead offering an edgy-meets-elegant sensibility. Whether it’s trimming a sleek slip dress, accentuating sheer layers, or turning a sheath into a statement piece, this isn’t your grandma’s lace — it’s an ethereal, alluring look that feels totally of the moment.
Demure fashion and quiet luxury are cut from the same cloth — quite literally, considering the same designer brands can be associated with either. Both trends’ emphasis on high necklines, long sleeves and floor-grazing bottoms falls in line with modest fashion, another space that has been around for much longer than either of these trends. Last year, quiet luxury was compared to modest fashion — and rightly criticized for society’s double standards that favor modesty as a trend over modesty as representation. However, the popularity of both trends highlights that modest-wear brands and dressers deserve credit, and respect, where it’s due.
When Matthew Perry’s personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, was arrested earlier this month, the explanation provided by officials seemed iron-clad. After all, it was he who gave Perry multiple shots of ketamine the day he died of what medical examiners say was an overdose of the drug. But Rowena Chiu, who worked as an assistant to convicted sexual assailantHarvey Weinstein, says it’s not that simple.
According to a statement from the US Attorney’s Office, Central District of California, Perry’s 59-year-old, live-in assistant has “admitted to repeatedly injecting Perry with ketamine without medical training, including performing multiple injections on Perry on October 28, 2023 – the day Perry died” at age 54. According to a plea agreement Iwamasa made with prosecutors, Perry had instructed him to secure illicit doses of the powerful anesthetic in late September. By early October, Iwamasa was allegedly injecting the actor with the drug on a regular basis.
On the day of his death, Matthew Perry—who for years had been open about his struggle with substance use disorder—requested three shots of ketamine throughout the day. “Shoot me up with a big one,” Iwamasa said Perry told him before his last dose, then asked him to prepare the hot tub for use. A few hours later, Iwamasa discovered Perry unresponsive in that same hot tub. Perry’s autopsy report lists an overdose of ketamine as the primary cause of his death, and drowning as the secondary cause.
In a guest essay for the New York Times, Chiu argues that a toxic and problematic system is at least partially to blame for the situation that led to Iwamasa’s arrest. The personal assistant to Weinstein for two months in 1998, she publicly accused the former mogul of attempted rape nearly 20 years later. While in her professional role, she says, she got “firsthand insight into the toxic dynamic that can develop while assisting a celebrity or understand the inherent power imbalance that can arise,” even beyond her interactions with the notoriously problematic Weinstein.
“An assistant to a celebrity can be expected to do whatever is asked of them, regardless of ethics or legality,” Chiu makes clear. “These requests can range from telling white lies (to, say, an irate spouse wanting to know where your boss is) to procuring illicit indulgences (such as drugs).” In her experience, the alleged actions that led to multiple charges against Iwamasa were all in a day’s work.
And worse, she writes, he might have been led to believe that he would be shielded from any repercussions. “As a personal assistant, if you’re ever asked to do anything ethically dubious, you’re immediately reassured, as I was: Oh, don’t worry, you’ll never get into trouble,” after all, she writes, people powerful enough to hire a crew of assistants also have a legal team to step in in the assistant’s behalf.
That supposed safety net went away for Iwamasa when Perry died, Chiu argues, as “Mr. Perry (and his deep pockets) are no longer around to protect the assistant. Without that patronage, the legal system has come for him.”
Chiu isn’t the only person who says that Iwamasa should not be held to the same standard as, say, the doctors who allegedly provided the deadly drug. Iwamasa is “the least culpable in my opinion,” former federal prosecutor and president of West Coast Trial Lawyers Neama Rahmani tells People regarding his arrest. “I think he’s in the business of being an assistant … if your boss is a drug addict and you want to keep your job, maybe you might do it for that reason.”
Brian Daniel, who recently spoke to The Cut about his experience as an assistant to “ultrawealthy clients,” offers this general insight into how hard it is for assistants to set boundaries with their employers. “You get sucked in, and the water becomes very muddy. A lot of these people are lonely. They’re in their megamansion all alone with you, and then they’ve had a couple lines, and then they’re telling you all their problems, and you become like a psychiatrist. It’s tricky.”
That challenge to say “no” to a powerful boss might not matter, says Mark Chutkow, another former federal prosecutor. Iwamasa—who faces up to 15 years in prison—“was actually injecting this drug into Matthew Perry, so that makes him the most closely tied to what eventually happened.”
Chiu appears to worry that Chutkow is right. “I’m not surprised that Mr. Iwamasa pleaded guilty,” she writes.
“The assistant, who is usually invisible, is suddenly center stage, the last place he or she is equipped to be. Along with invisible, the assistant can also be penniless, powerless and a vulnerable target. It’s far too easy to turn the butler into the scapegoat.”
We’re excited to team up with Gustin on this piece, because like Primer, they believe that great style doesn’t have to break the bank.
You can only choose two: Affordable, Quality, or Easy. This is the framework I recently discussed for men’s style. If you’re dissatisfied with the quality of your clothing—whether it’s the materials, manufacturing and ethics, or design—you’ll either need to pay a premium or accept a more complex and time-consuming buying process.
Attempting to make affordable and quality a little less annoying is one of the big reasons we highlight sale and deal finds, giving you the opportunity to buy a higher quality item on a discount that’s ready to order as soon as you add to cart.
But of course, that is really just a different version of thrift hunting, limiting what you can buy based on what you stumble across at the time. And like thrifting, it requires a certain commitment to paying attention and not waiting to buy things right when you need them for your big presentation or family vacation.
Gustin is one brand we’ve long referenced for affordability and quality through their pre-sale, made-to-order model—American-made clothing at a fraction of the retail price, with a trade-off of having to place an order in advance and waiting for production and fulfillment.
But now, getting your hands on their well-crafted pieces just got a little easier. Using data from over a decade of campaigns, they’ve started stocking a selection of their perennial bestsellers, so you can enjoy the same quality without the usual wait.
If you’ve been poking around these parts for any length of time then you’re not new to the brand, which we’ve featured many times over the years, since their launch as a Kickstarter campaign in 2013 then later that year as a direct platform. Gustin pioneered the idea of crowdsourcing men’s made-to-last US-manufactured clothing. By partnering directly with US factories and taking advance orders through a campaign on their website, they’ve dramatically reduced the waste and overproduction that plague fast fashion retail brands—issues that have only worsened in the industry over the past 15 years.
Once the campaign is funded (98% of them are), the partner factory starts on the order, and Gustin fulfills shipping everything out to customers. The result is Gustin customers get premium, decades-enduring menswear at a near wholesale price.
The clothing you get from Gustin isn’t the same quality you get from J.Crew, but happens to be made in America. The jeans, for example, are made out of some of the world’s best denim from the best manufacturers. Take their 1968 model that I’m wearing: Made of deadstock USA-made selvedge denim from the legendary Cone Mills White Oak plant in North Carolina, a standard-bearer of the premium denim world for decades, that abruptly shut down in 2017.
Or the BlackXBlack Stretch, which is cut and sewn in America from premium Japanese selvedge.
While Gustin initially got their start with jeans, over the past ten years they’ve expanded to everything from USA-made Horween leather jackets to Italian-made leather sneakers to joggers to briefcases and everything in between, with 95% of their campaigns made in American partner factories and 98% of campaigns getting successfully funded.
The “Quality” in the Affordable-Quality-Easy matrix isn’t just about how and what a piece of clothing is made out of, but also the quality and uniqueness of the design. What really sets things over the edge for me is, on top of the unrivaled pricing to quality ratio, they also feature some really interesting and stand-out designs like the Canadian-made natural rainbow nep fabric on the Vintage Heavyweight Sweatshirt I’m wearing.
It’s clearly unique in detail, when noticed, but far from flashy — a hallmark of refined style. Doing this for as long as I have, I’ve never seen something like this at the price ranges we cover and made at this quality level.
To make the process as painless as possible here are a few of my tips:
Gustin doesn’t use vanity sizing. Using their size and fit charts as a reference, measure one of your current favorites in whatever type of item you’re looking at.
Pay close attention to the measurements you took when choosing your size on their site. Expect to order a larger size than you’re used to. If it’s close or in between, err on the larger size.
Waist sizes 29-33 have a 34” inseam, and waists 34 on up have a 36” inseam, meaning whether you’re narrow and long or wide and short, the perfect-fitting jeans are a quick hem away.
Forget the frills of your childhood — this season’s bows, ruffles, and rosettes have evolved into something entirely new. Ranging from ultra-sweet femininity to a near bad-girls-club edge, these details have been reimagined with a sharp, modern twist. A bow tied around the waist of a cream tweed suit at Chanel and a fully ribbon-adorned pink shift dress at Prada show that these accents are more than darling — they’re striking. On the dark romance end of the spectrum, black, sheer, and lace skin-baring iterations deliver charm without the nauseating sweetness, adding just the right amount of attitude. Even bubble hems play into this look for a whimsically nostalgic take.
When Aki Kim, 71, and Koichi Suzuki Kim, 73, began posting outfit videos to their Instagram and TikTok accounts (@akiandkoichi) in the spring of this year, neither the couple nor their daughter Yuri (who creates and posts content on their behalf) expected to gain 1 million followers before the end of the summer. While the outfits — from some of their favorite brands like Issey Miyake, Loewe, Comme des Garcons and APC — change from video to video, the format remains simple, featuring the couple in their California neighborhood.
“We never anticipated this level of attention and it still feels unreal to us,” the Kims told Refinery29 in a joint statement. “It’s difficult to pinpoint why we believe people are responding positively. We think people appreciate our style, but it might also be tied to the joy we convey.” Although the goal of their accounts has never been financial — “as 70-somethings starting a new adventure, we believe fashion can help everyone feel confident and true to themselves. Fashion is about feeling good no matter your age,” they say — in addition to followers, the Kims have since secured partnerships with brands like ASOS, Warby Parker and Uniqlo, catapulting them into the growing space of fashion influencer couples.
From Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake’s matching denim outfits in 2003 to Kourtney Kardashian’s Travis Barker-influenced style 20 years later, people have been obsessed with couples’ fashion for ages. In more recent years though, this has gone beyond celebrity pairings with internet duos like Aki and Koichi, Young Emperors and more gaining devoted followings and engaged virtual communities.
In June, Remi Alfallah and Erris Burke, 27 and 28 respectively, shared a video of themselves posing in their kitchen that received 11 million views and 431,000 likes and counting. In it, the LA- and London-based couple are seen wearing matching black outfits — Alfallah in a secondhand Roberto Cavalli dress, Burke in an AREA crop top and Zara mini skirt. The caption reads, “No one talks about the struggles of two femmes trying to find a non-cringe way to post.”
Burke, who has been creating fashion and lifestyle content for four years, met film producer Alfallah via Instagram in 2022, and began sharing videos of Alfallah a few months into their relationship. Fast forward to last summer: The couple created joint accounts on TikTok and Instagram (as @remianderris), sharing videos of their everyday outfits which range from baggy jeans and crop tops to mini skirts and boots. While Burke mostly wears loose-fitting streetwear, Alfallah likes to pair feminine silhouettes with masculine accessories like ties, flat caps and chunky shoes — though they also share their clothes and coordinate outfits that play to each other’s aesthetics. Now, a few hundred thousand followers later, the couple has been signed to a talent agency while their accounts continue to grow daily.
Just as the Kims hope to provide representation for seniors, Alfallah and Burke started their account to create a space for queer people and couples who dress like them.“There is a certain stereotype of more masculine queer women that’s often shown in pop culture, which is obviously valid and exists, but for people outside of that, [we’re] like, ‘Can I see somebody like me who dresses more feminine, or is more of a tomboy?’” Alfallah tells Refinery29.
Indiana-based couple Daniel Mirage and Shamaria Thomas, both 21, use Mirage’s account (@daniel_mirage) to showcase style trends. In their posts, they wear coordinated streetwear and Y2K-inspired outfits that include jorts, shrunken tops, matching Timberland boots and various secondhand finds. “We’re both in this weird, experimental phase where we know what we like and don’t, but we’re still trying to find things that we wouldn’t necessarily have worn a year ago,” Thomas tells Refinery29. “Most of the time we get ready together and decide on a theme for the day,” Mirage adds. Some of their recent themes included jersey dressing (where both wore thrifted sports tops and matching shorts) and Western-inspired cowboy boots and chunky loafers.
“It was a really positive response,” Mirage says about when he first started featuring Thomas on his account. “All my friends who see my page were really happy for me.” Mirage’s followers and engagement have grown with their increased couple content, which often features smooth transitions and outfit compilations. Comments on their videos range from “me and who?” and “ya’ll compliment each other so well,” to inquiries about outfit details.
While #FitPics isn’t a new format, the success that these couples are experiencing is further proof that users today are looking for more than just aspirational fashion content. In a recent Refinery29 survey that asked 82 readers to list the reasons they follow influencers, 56% said because they make creative content, 43% said because they’re relatable, and 33% said it was because “they showcase a lifestyle I admire or aspire to.”
“A lot of what we see online is someone speaking to the camera, so you miss out on that human interaction… And that’s what people love,” Deya Suresh tells Refinery29. “Like when TikTok came around, everything was so raw and relatable because it’s not carefully curated and people are just sitting down in their messy rooms.” On their travel-focused account @pipanddeya, Suresh alongside her partner Pip Puveendran, both 33 and based in Toronto, post fit checks, often on the street or on holiday, and meme videos that show their personality. In their videos, Suresh wears feminine silhouettes like milkmaid dresses, printed blouses, and A-line skirts, while Puveendran sports tailored pieces, matching sets, and activewear. “We wanted a place where we could just be us,” Suresh says of their account.
We can’t complain, this is our dream job… However, it’s not a vacation. We wake up, we film, we edit, we go on our emails.
Deya Suresh
While Suresh and Puveendran try to stay as authentic as possible, the two full-time creators also treat it like a business. This comes with cons. “We can’t complain — like this is our dream job and we get paid to travel — however, it’s not like a vacation. We wake up, we film, we edit while on vacation, we go on our emails, ” Suresh says. “One rule we’ve recently been implementing is we try to make our last day of vacation a [non-working] ‘us day.’” Alfallah and Burke also recognize the need to balance being present in their relationship while showcasing personal moments that their followers come to love them for. “If there’s a moment that goes by and you’re trying to be present, where you forget to film or you don’t want to, there’s this lingering guilt like, ‘that would have done so well,’” Alfallah says.
When asked what would happen to their content if they broke up, Puveendran says he’s not worried about that: “We do bicker and fight, but ultimately we have the same love for travel and content creation that, if I were to be with somebody else who wasn’t part of that world, I would have a nightmare existence with them. They wouldn’t understand why I want to take a nice drone shot at sunrise [laughs].” Mirage and Thomas agree that their social media journey so far “has been pretty easy.” With their audience and career opportunities growing alongside their relationship, according to the two, their hardest challenges are deciding on outfits and finding aesthetically pleasing locations to film.
As the world of fashion influencers continues to change, couples content gives us the wholesome vibes we deserve — and two times the outfit inspiration.
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I can’t believe I’m saying this either: but it’s time to start shopping for your fall clothes. You’ve probably seen a few fall fashion-focused TikToks…and stores have even started rolling out Halloween candy.
So yes, we’re looking ahead, but for good reason. First, I’m all about getting ahead of the trends. It’s why people buy UGGs in the summer: you can nab all of the good sizes and colors before the latest UGGs are even a gleam in everyone else’s eye.
If you wait until the last minute, chances are that stores are already stocking their shelves for winter…and we don’t have time for that.
This fall’s biggest trend? Skorts. Everywhere I go, I see at least one person sporting a skort. And while I love a good skort, I truly wasn’t expecting it. You can also expect brown — especially orange tones — to be this year’s color of the season.
We’re moving towards menswear again, emphasizing blazers and plaid tweed trousers. The fashion world is partial to softer, more professional-looking clothing after a summer-long soiree of florals and prints.
Even more interesting is the return of the polka dot. Not my favorite trend resurfacing, but a trend nonetheless. Move over garden party florals, here come unironic polka dots! In all forms.
So, if you’re looking to start your shopping a little early but want to avoid scrolling through TikTok to find the answers…here are our fall fashion trends for 2024!
Neutrals
Emma Chamberlain via Instagram
While summer 2024 was all about bright colors and fun prints, fall is more focused on neutrals. Since we’re already losing our tans, it can be easy to feel washed out in vibrant pinks and oranges…which is exactly why we’re leaning towards tans and browns.
Whether it’s a top or bottom, basics are essential for a successful wardrobe. If you’ve already built your capsule closet thanks to Hailey Bieber’s advice, or you’re looking to stock up on your favorite tee, make sure you pack in the neutrals so you’ll always have an acceptable outfit. Looking for fun neutrals? Here are my picks:
Think oversized cable knits and sailor sweaters. There’s nothing that screams fall more than a sweater you’re basically swimming in. Even though it’s still summer through most of September (and the weather reflects this), I start building my sweater collection early.
This year, I’m loving the retro bell sleeve style to truly get the most comfort out of your sweater style. Look out for notch neck collars and rugby-style sweaters as well. I love a good chunky sweater, here are my faves:
As I mentioned earlier, this one’s a bit weird for me to bring up. Definitely not my favorite trend. In fact, it’s one I think we’ll regret. But I digress, to each their own.
Expect to see a plethora of polka dots on dresses, shirts, pants, skirts — even sweaters! — this year. To my eyes, they’re not flattering and a bit childish. And reminiscent of my kindergarten teacher or a nasty matriarchal nanny in movies. Regardless, some influencer will somehow convince everyone to wear polka dots soon enough, I fear. If I had to wear polka dots, I’d wear these:
With trends like Quiet Luxury and Old Money aesthetics continuing to surge — thanks to the likes of Sofia Richie — may I introduce the English prep school style? It’s exactly what you’d imagine: blazers, corduroy, tweed, ties, button-downs, equestrian style.
Think of Bella Hadid’s recent equestrian outfits or Sofia Richie’s preppy looks. The idea is to look polished, a tad collegiate, and super studious. Almost as if you have a library date, or you spend your weekends reading Jane Austen. My favorite British boarding school pieces are:
Another trend I’ve seen a lot is a dark, romantic vibe. Textures like lace will be popular, or darker floral patterns. Gobs of gothic inspiration, yet with hyper-feminine features that help the piece pop.
Lace bodysuits, appliqued dresses, and more will be popular this fall. You’ll see lots of sheer layering, some rich jewel tones like emerald and ruby, and a touch of velvet. The dark romance theme is akin to royalty: luxurious fabrics, intentional draping, and deep hues. If you want some sheer style this fall, here are easy options:
No, the article isn’t over…I’m talking about the return of the wrap. Whether it’s a wrap poncho, coat, dress, or scarf, the wrap is back. And I’m here for it!
There’s nothing more chic or sassy than draping a simply gorgeous scarf around your head and shoulders when the temperature drops. I’m also loving the poncho style this fall, expect to see many more of these to pop up in stores. Here are my picks:
When you find an outfit color combination you like, sliding the colors between the component pieces is an easy way to make new outfits.
Mastering good style isn’t about endlessly mixing and matching every item in your closet. Just like the millennial work mantra—work smarter, not harder—applies to your daily grind, it can also guide your process for building looks.
Have an outfit you already love? Create iterations with the design concept of color blocking: a simple and powerful tool that allows you to create new outfits for different occasions, weather, or moods by strategically shifting the colors of your fav outfit’s components in the new look.
One way I personally like to do this is with a dusty color palette in summer. With the heat and humidity calling for a pared-back approach, sticking to a core palette of dusty neutrals—beige, charcoal, white, and tan—enables pieces to be both flexible and weather-appropriate.
These shades not only embody a classic, refined vibe but also make it easy to mix and match, giving you the flexibility to be ready for whatever the day might bring, from morning brunch to a casual evening out.
Here are four easy summer outfit ideas that illustrate the power of neutral color blocking. By just shifting where these tones appear in the look, you can transform the feel of your outfit—from relaxed and modern to something that’s a bit more polished and classic. Best of all, all four make use of something you’ve likely already owned for years: a trusty pair of suede desert boots.
Let’s start with one of my current favorites:
Beige Linen Shirt with Faded Black Jeans and Tan Desert Boots
With a looser shirt and straight fit jean, this outfit feels laid-back, comfortable, and classically rakish.
This order of colors still feels cohesive but has a decidedly different feel. While the darker shirt will always have a more evening-essence to it, the low contrast between the jeans and the boots has a very dusty summer effect.
We can continue shifting things around now that we have the tan jeans. Anchoring that as the darker focal point like the charcoal jeans were in the original, we can swap the dark linen shirt for a white one:
White Short Sleeve Linen Shirt, Khaki Jeans, and Tan Desert Boots
When the other elements are shades of beige, a simple, everyday white shirt can become a vibrant addition to balance things out.
Compared to the outfit with the same jeans and boots with the dark linen shirt, this one feels more appropriate for a daytime activity in the mid-day summer sun.
Circling back around, we move the white from the shirt to the jeans, and bring back the charcoal linen shirt:
Charcoal Short Sleeve Linen Shirt, Natural White Jeans, and Tan Desert Boots
White jeans can feel like a bold move, but when you keep things within the subdued colors we’ve been working in, like with the dark shirt, it keeps that boldness reigned in. Plus it’s such a dead-simple pro summer move: Take an outfit you like, swap in white jeans, and you’ve instantly got summer-is-for-vacation vibes.
Natural White Levi’s Premium 501 Jeans: Amazon, Levi’s
Ahead of the brand launch in 2019, Pari Passu 3D scanned over 7,500 plus-size women to create three fit types (B, C, and D), with patterns and size grading specific to each. For background, most designers create their fit based on only one body shape — the idealized (and fairly uncommon) hourglass — and then size up and down from there, which makes for a poor fit for other body types. While, in the years since, Pari Passu has become known for high-quality workwear, as the brand got to know its customer, it realized that formalwear was a massively underserved area in the plus market. This inspired the launch of Made-to-Measure, a collection of 17 looks for size 12+ shoppers, in August. By having in-depth fit info for all of the most common body types at the ready from prior research, Pari Passu’s made-to-measure process requires fewer fit sessions than typical custom experience would usually entail.
This week, Copenhagen Fashion Week Spring 2025 shows marked the countdown to Fashion Month, which kicks off in September in New York and concludes in October in Paris. Featuring some of the biggest names in Danish fashion — including OpéraSport, Baum und Pferdgarten, Remain, and Saks Potts — this season’s runways introduced the fashion trends that we’ll be seeing next year.
In an update to the business-core trend, brands made a case for sheer tailoring. Meanwhile, others brought back nostalgic items like cropped cardigans and oversized rugby shirts. Scandi style influences like print clashing, ultra-feminine details, and minimalist styling breathed life into both new and old trends.
While these pieces won’t land in stores until the new year, plenty of these styles can be worn now, from flowy, loose-fitting dresses to sporty shirts that will keep your Olympics obsession alive well into spring. Ahead, the seven biggest trends from Copenhagen Fashion Week Spring 2025 runways.
Copenhagen Fashion Week Spring 2025 Trend: Cardigans
Designers are bringing cardigans back in a big way for spring/summer 2025. The transitional layer — which looks nothing like your grandma’s cardi — was predominant on runways like A. Roege Hove, where models walked in black, white, grey, and Brat Green knits worn solo or layered, buttoned all the way up or barely at all. OpéraSport added some coquette flair to cardigans with frilly trims and cropped hems, while Aiayu opted for a minimal, relaxed fit.
Copenhagen Fashion Week Spring 2025 Trend: Caftan-Style Dresses
James Cochrane
Plenty of effortless, loose-fitting garments were sent down Copenhagen’s spring/summer runways — and we expected nothing less from the Scandi crowd. Contemporary brand Munthe presented prairie maxi dresses, embroidered caftans, and denim shirt dresses with tie fronts, all styled with slide sandals or ballet flats. Other caftan-style dresses included Lovechild 1979’s black, sheer maxi with billowing sleeves and Skall Studio’s light-colored shift dresses, perfect for late-summer lounging or a holiday abroad.
Copenhagen Fashion Week Spring 2025 Trend: Sheer Suits
If you’re a fan of suits as occasion wear, designers are taking tailoring to a new, party-appropriate level. Sheer suiting arrived in Copenhagen this season, resembling a perfect cocktail of the business-core aesthetic and naked dress trend. Our favorite looks include Remain’s sheer-paneled, collarless blazer and trousers, paired with ballet flats; and The Garment’s powder-blue sheer suit (inside a tailoring-focused collection) dressed up with pumps and a clutch handbag. Other brands paired sheer elements with suits, like Gestuz’s transparent button-ups and Bonnetje’s sheer-paneled capri pants.
Copenhagen Fashion Week Spring 2025 Trend: Rugby Shirts
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Show your stripes with a designer-approved rugby shirt this season. The retro, sporty top was all over the Copenhagen runways, including several brightly colored, striped polos at Baum und Pferdgarten’s “office Olympics”-themed show, and Marimekko’s primary-hued polo dresses. For those who prefer a fresher take on the collegiate staple, Stamm’s “Be Good” long-sleeve shirts gave the slogan tee trend a stamp of approval for 2025. The fashion-forward among us will appreciate Henrik Vibskov’s color-blocked, multi-striped rugby shirts and Stem’s neutral tops with fringe detailing.
Copenhagen Fashion Week Spring 2025 Trend: Bubble-Hem Tops
For spring/summer 2025, the Y2K-inspired bubble skirt trend is trickling over into tops and adding a romantic, feminine feel to even the simplest styles. Perfectly exemplified by Herskind’s tailored, draped tops (styled with matching wide-leg trousers), this three-dimensional style can be as sophisticated as it is fun. One of CPHFW’s most exciting newcomers, Nicklas Skovgaard, proved this with casual, cropped bubble-hem tops styled with matching underwear and knee-high socks.
Copenhagen Fashion Week Spring 2025 Trend: Textured Bottoms
One way to elevate an outfit is to implement texture, and designers like Joao Maraschin, (Di)vision, and Baum und Pferdgarten displayed a range of feathery, furry, and appliquéd bottoms for spring/summer 2025. While this may sound daring in theory (who am I, Big Bird?), it’s a lot easier to style in real life — just keep everything else minimal. See Baum und Pferdgarten’s polo tops paired with appliquéd skirts, for instance, or go for double the statement with Joao Maraschin’s ropey vest tops paired with textured bottoms.
Copenhagen Fashion Week Spring 2025 Trend: Ruffles
Designers embraced ruffle detailing on the spring/summer runways with a nod to this season’s hyper-feminine trend. From OpéraSport’s blouses and handbags to Alectra Rothschild’s skirts, ruffles adorned plenty of looks. If a full ruffle outfit à la Lovechild 1979’s grey midi dresses and matching sets isn’t for you, consider pieces that use the decorative element as an accent.
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We’ve been keeping a close eye on the week’s events. This includes scoping out the best street style looks that will undoubtedly provide summer style inspo for the remaining weeks of warm weather, as well as previewing all the fashion trends that will be everywhere come fall. Scroll on to discover some of our favorite looks from Copenhagen Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2025.
But it’s not just knits and all-around cozy vibes that make fall the favorite fashion season of many. That much is obvious when you take a scroll through Instagram. The feeds of the style set are already brimming with inspiration, from edgier takes on leopard print, midi skirts and maxi dresses, capri pants, embellished denim, and more runway-inspired looks.
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Looking rakish and modern on a summer evening is a breeze, whether for a rooftop bar, live music, or outdoor cocktails on a first date.
This outfit makes use of several outfit-building strategies:
Monochromatic color palette
Dark and simple colors are a staple of dressier and more refined styles like a suit or tuxedo. While we’re maintaining a casual and comfortable vibe, borrowing this reduced palette makes a shorts and sneakers look feel more evening-ready.
Simply visualize this same outfit with a version of the shirt that has a vibrant pattern and colorful shorts to see how sophisticated the outfit becomes with this subdued approach.
Style is in the details
The polo not only has a full button placket but also a substantial knit texture that loudly yells “this isn’t my golf shirt.” Similarly, the tank top isn’t just a white undershirt, this cream color lowers the contrast between it and the shirt, giving it a role in the style but in a more integrated way.
The court sneakers are a modern and low profile take on tennis and basketball shoes from the 80s and 90s; the moc-toe-like stitching and perforated cap are hallmarks of athletic shoes, keep this choice casual and firmly in sneaker territory. But when paired with the minimalist, low profile design of the rest of the shoe, the overall effect feels almost like broguing on a wingtip.
Heat adaptations
The loose knit on the 100% cotton shirt provides breathability and air flow, making up for its thicker-than-a-t-shirt weight.
While it’s perfectly fine to wear more vibrant styles in the evening, using our monochrome palette helps balance the innately more casual feel of short sleeves and shorts, that are a necessity for comfort in many regions this time of year.
The right sneaker is the secret ingredient to easy and sharp summer style. The just-released Court sneaker from Thursday takes classic sneaker design cues and updates them for day-and-night smart casual style.
Made with Italian Nappa Leather with a Strobel construction and quality-of-life features like shock-absorbent footbeds, these premium sneakers are meant for heavy wear just as much as they are to look good. The Court is also available in a number of other colorways, I’m particularly partial to the Smoke and Clay styles.
Unlike many cheaper options that are made entirely of less breathable synthetic materials, the 100% cotton construction offers breathability, maintenance, and durability of shape.
Continuing on the “style is in the details” approach, I love how this small pop of orange, on an otherwise color-matching watch, contributes to the overall outfit. The green jasper stones of the ring similarly inject a blip of nuanced personality.
Dan Henry is a watch microbrand, started by the eponymous vintage watch collector, that offers era-themed designs of historically significant watches. The 1970 is a design that aesthetically and mechanically honors the dive watches of the decade.
These are essentially dress chinos hemmed into shorts. Italian-milled cotton fabric with 2% stretch in a tailored fit and my go-to fav extended tab closure give these shorts a finish that clearly separates them from your casual heavy twill shorts.
Give your shirt a quick French tuck to show off that extended button tab, and combined with that necklace, ring, court sneakers and cream tank top, you’ve got a modern look still firmly rooted in enduring styles.
Lifestyle icon Martha Stewart turns 83 today, making her nearly two years older than President Joe Biden, a year older than actor Harrison Ford, and a full decade younger than media mogul Rupert Murdoch. And yet she seems happier than many of those contemporaries. Is that because she celebrated her birthday 1) in Paris, 2) at the Olympics, and 3) with Snoop Dogg, a Muppet, and a cake made of macarons? Perhaps!
In the Friday interview, Martha Stewart and Snoop’s on-camera appearance was interrupted by Cookie Monster, a Muppet who’s previously matched wits with John Oliver, Sesame Streetneighbor Big Bird, and E.T. But his appearance Friday was anything but contentious, though he snuck up behind Stewart as the interview progressed.
“Martha! Hi! Happy birthday,” the Muppet called, according to a video posted to TikTok by Access Hollywood. “Cookie Monster, what’s happening baby?” Snoop exclaimed.
After shouting “Bring it in” to an off-camera helper, the Muppet presented Stewart with a cone-shaped cake fashioned out of macarons, a meringue-based cookie known as a favorite of French Queen Catherine de’ Medici.
As Stewart once noted on her show, Martha Bakes, it wasn’t until the 1900s that the current version of the filled, sandwich-cookie came into vogue. Stewart skipped the history lesson on Friday, however, digging into one of the cookies after subtly adjusting their plated presentation.
Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart arrive at the dressage events at the Paris Olympics on August 3, 2024.
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On Saturday, her actual birthday, Stewart was still hard at work. With Snoop again at her side, the alleged Trump bird-flipper rolled into Versailles in full equestrian gear, where the duo provided commentary for that day’s Olympic dressage event.
“Snoop called me, and he knows I love horses,” Stewart told Today of her birthday gig. “We’re going to have so much fun.”
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