What are the 2023 fashion trends to focus on?

While everyone takes stock of the year 2022 that has just ended, the fashion industry has already made its proposals for 2023. Cobalt blue to make Yves Klein pale, cargo pants to hum Alain Bashung’s “Military Fantasy”, the biker jacket to dance on Motomami by Rosalía, the long denim skirt to play hippie chic or even the bare top they are already shaping up to be the most salient fashion trends that you can invest in with your eyes closed if you have your heart in it.

It’s already in your pocket: the cargo pants

For some seasons it has returned to the fashion scene, driven by the Y2K trend. Dear to Kim Possible, cargo pants dress the 2020s, rather in a baggy version, distorting their military and austere origins with a tight top. This contrast of volumes is easily manageable for a look worthy of Alain Bashung’s military fantasy.

The genius of the long denim skirt

If we often consider it in a mini version for the summer, the denim skirt takes a step forward this year by imposing itself in a maxi version this winter. You can choose it in raw denim fabric, for a preppy or normcore look. Works equally well with heeled sandals, ankle boots, or trainers. The trendiest fashionistas can try the long denim skirt in a faded, even ripped canvas for a look full of grunge genius.

Blue remains a warm colour

If Viva Magenta was elected color of 2023, there are many other extremely saturated colors in the collections of that year: Klein blue, cobalt or ultramarine blue. Whatever you call it, as long as the indigo hue appears as vibrant as possible, even unreal. To be worn as a total look for the most audacious and obsessive, or simply to the touch to revive any vitamin-free outfit sea.

Motomania presses the turbo

Maybe it’s thanks to the singer Rosalía and her album Motomami that made almost half the world want to drive mechanics. In any case, the fashionistas took their biker jackets out of the closet, and went on the hunt for authentic secondhand car jackets emblazoned with badges. Something that brings a little bit of dog into any outfit that’s a little too wise. The most unexpected (and therefore tasty) layering is to wear it with a very flowing evening dress, and décolleté, which will contrast with the sturdy leather jacket. The more savvy can also try wearing the biker jacket around the waist as if it were a skirt. Perfect!

Little Red Riding Hood goes to a party

You’d think of those kinds of celeb-only pieces for red carpets, but who’s to stop the average person from wearing a dress with a built-in hood? Who’s stopping you from playing the Grace Jones even on New Year’s Eve like at the university or in the office? To make everyday life a party, we can then try our hand at this heat-filled piece for the head, seen on too many catwalks not to be able to wear a hooded dress.

Transparency is on the rise

If celebrities like to wear completely nude clothes (nicknamed naked dress) to make important appearances, it is more complicated to wear in everyday life. But in recent months another way has emerged to dare to be transparent without feeling completely naked: the top in tulle, mesh or loose mesh, with a bra underneath or a corset on top. In short, the bare top wear loud and clear, to set the trend of self-wear a little more realistic and workable for the daily life of mere mortals.

Front page photo credits: David Koma, Dior, Alexander McQueen, Givenchy, Marques’Almeida.