Closing the innovation gap through financing. Fashion for Good by Lalit Kumar via Unsplash Anyone working in the fashion industry and expecting logic is perhaps the orchestrator of their own disappointment. Fashion is a consumer goods industry that beats to the arrhythmic heart of popular culture, celebrity, and commerce—it expresses our values and aspirations with…
A photo from J.Crew’s Instagram @jcrew captioned featuring the brand’s Fisherman jelly sandals in the colorway cloud. (Photo courtesy of J.Crew) J.Crew Reestablishing hype around the flexible, durable and eternally-kiddish silhouette, the release of the jelly shoe across a range of both accessible and luxury brands speaks volumes about the nature of the current trend…
Basic silhouettes and muted colours now dominate feeds once filled with statement pieces and … More microtrends. (BORIS ROESSLER/DPA/AFP via Getty Images) DPA/AFP via Getty Images As consumers tire of relentless micro-trends and the damage of fast fashion, a surprising aesthetic is quietly dominating social feeds in 2025: normcore. Normcore — the minimalist, “average person”…