The extreme heat of last summer is behind many of the fashion trends of spring 2027. Almost across the board, designers responded to the record-breaking temperatures by chasing lightness—in terms of color, transparency, and weightlessness. The higher the mercury, after all, the fewer clothes you want to wear.
Bra tops are one solution. For the slightly more modest, there’s lace, crochet, and semi-sheer fabrics that play a coquettish reveal/conceal game à la the scrim in Unzipped. Babydoll dresses in the spirit of the 1960s model Twiggy and their accompanying endless stretches of leg are another possible alternative.
Rugbys and polo shirts were also in the spotlight, while jeans, the foundation of the global wardrobe, got a glow-up through elaborate decoration, dyes, and finishes. These three trends answer the question of what to wear. Two others—mad pattern mixes and deliberately awkward fits—focus more on how we wear clothes, which is a preoccupation of Celine’s Michael Rider and professor Ross Posnock whose latest book American Sophistication: How the Casual Became Cool was published in September.
The present ideal isn’t perfection, but a kind of rule-breaking individualism, preferably with an IYKYK spin. Offness, which feels anti-AI, is the turn on. That glamour has no expiration date in fashion was demonstrated by the predominance of metallics, notably at Antony Vaccarello’s Midas-touched swansong at Saint Laurent.
The golden age of Hollywood—and the Oscar statuette—was conjured by gilded designs. (File this under the ‘Dress for the Award You Want’ school of method dressing.) Feathers and strass brought to mind showgirls with their high-stepping can-do flair. The Stand-Alone Skirt At Prada, the singular object of Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’s obsession was the skirt. In sending 63 variations down the runway, they effectively proposed the garment as object.
Marc Jacobs and Junya Watanabe, meanwhile, used the bodysuit as the basis for a modular system of dressing. L’Air du Temps Welcome to waftcore. Chanel’s Mathieu Blazy initiated a tendency toward lightness a year ago, and it has since been taken up broadly, partly in response to extreme heat waves of the summer.
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