On the checklist of tendencies we didn’t see coming in 2023, hoods is fairly up there. However in truth, we dig them.
Whereas your thoughts may immediately go to your teenage-angst years of carrying your boyfriends’ outsized hoodie with a pair of over-the-knee socks and platform boots, the hoods on development in 2023 — couldn’t be farther from teenage dirtbag stylish, child.
At a Berlin photograph name for her newest movie, “She Got here to Me”, Anne Hathaway sported a head-to-toe Maison Alaia look, that featured a hood.
Wanting like one thing out of a classic Italian spy drama, Hathaway pulled off the effortlessly elegant look, with assist from her longtime stylist Erin Walsh — who paired her all-black hooded look with jewelry and equipment from Bulgari.
In the meantime, on a purple carpet in LA, Margot Robbie additionally donned a hooded Maison Alaia look, to the worldwide premiere of her latest movie “Babylon”.
Put collectively by stylist Kate Younger, the look has been dubbed considered one of Robbie’s most daring purple carpet trend moments up to now, with the actress typically choosing modest, refined and female silhouettes.
This look, a MaisonAlaia wrap gown, full with uncovered mid-rift, a facet practice with Julia Fox-esc fake black hair fringing, and an identical hood — is unquestionably a step outdoors of her regular type portfolio.
The design of the hood — which is an extension of the cross-over panels on the bust — is harking back to Kylie Minogue’s iconic “Can’t Get You Out of my Head” music video look, which is nostalgically a disco meets Y2K type second.
Non-binary Australian trend influencer, Deni Todorovič, took the Kylie fever one step additional, carrying a hooded Rick Owens prime to the Sydney Mardi Gras opening night time, the place Minogue carried out along with her sister, Dannii Minogue.
And we don’t need to inform you how a lot Julia Fox loves a hood. The style muse / all spherical queen wore a leather-based hood as a part of her iconic ass-less chaps second, compete with an precise pony tail and Thom Browne “fox” bag, at a New York Fashion Week occasion earlier this month.
We’re simply stating the information — hoods are IN.
Equally to different trend tendencies which can be turning into more and more simple, resembling low rise pants, micro mini skirts and fake fur — they’re a refreshed and refined model of one thing that after was.
Beforehand, hoods have been seen as extra of a dressing up development, worn by the Kylie Minogue’s and the Madonna’s of the world — they’re now much less of a novelty and extra of a excessive trend selection.
And it is sensible. Styled to perfection, with timeless and sophistication on the forefront of each Robbie and Hathaway’s purple carpet seems, a hood provides a component of mystique that’s unsurpassed. It’s new, it’s contemporary, it’s thrilling. They appear like one thing out of a European portrait — a member of the royal household, maybe? A sultry nun? A patron saint?
There’s one thing biblical — however horny — a few draped hood.
After a fast hunt for hooded items in the marketplace in Australia proper now, we’ve learnt that at present, they’re an costly funding.
However don’t be disheartened. The great thing about designer trend tendencies, is that they at all times make their method all the way down to the mainstream market sooner or later. Given their literal purple carpet takeover, we’re predicting that hooded attire, bodysuits and tops will discover themselves in mainstream shops and massive franchise manufacturers within the coming months.
We’ll hold our eye out for native designers who carry out hooded items of their winter drops, which can be barely extra inexpensive than designer manufacturers. However, when you’ve got an additional couple of grand, it is best to completely go for a shop at Maison Alaia.
