Meta analysis of spring 2025 trends

Hopefully an antidote to being overwhelmed

Before I start making spring-summer trend predictions (based on data, etc) I wanted to know what people were already reporting on. But when flipping between the numerous trend reports and not (often) seeing the throughline (how is it that 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s are all trending right now, I don’t know) I found myself a bit overwhelmed.

However! Having just read Matt Klein’s Meta Trending Trends for 2025 (worth a subscription, I promise!) — and finding it incredibly useful for summarising the mass amount of cultural trend reports that are being released for the year — I figured I could do the same for the spring summer 2025 fashion trend reports.

Both to save myself from the embarrassment of declaring, “wow! look at this amazing trend I spotted in the data!” — only to realize it’s already been all over a million recent runways and trend reports — and to avoid discussing a trend without acknowledging its origins.

So! In this spreadsheet (which may be the reason you made the journey from instagram/tiktok to here) are the 76 trends that were mentioned across 30 trend forecasts, outlining where each trend was mentioned and containing a link to that trend forecast/article.

What I am thinking of doing for part 2 is to juxtapose all of these trends with either search volume, mentions across instagram (whether it be captions or hashtags — a new datasource that I now have access to!), or hashtag engagement on tiktok. Let me know if you would find this useful

But for now, here are the 10 most-mentioned trends across 30 trend forecasts:

Corporate, androgynous, and lots of ties

Corporate clothes were by far the most-mentioned trend for spring summer 2025 (and projected for fall winter 2025 as well). Pictured here at Won Hundred, Forza Collective, and Saint Laurent.

50 shades of pale brown

Pantone predicting that mocha mousse was going to be the colour of 2025 was true but it’s not for me. Pictured here at Tory Burch, Hermes, and Bottega.

Ornamental

Sparkly embellishments, whether you bought the top that way or added a charm/belt/pin on later — this trend ties into the more-is-more customisation trend I discussed earlier this year. Pictured here at Rabanne, Miu Miu, and Louis Vuitton.

Bubbly

Oversized, bubble hem skirts and dresses were called a lot of different things by fashion writers (parachutes, pillows, oversized, exaggerated proportions) but what it really means is that bubble skirts are looking less like a micro trend after all. This trend also closely links to the tulle and tutus that were present on the runways (although less covered in these reports). Pictured here at Chloe, Carvan, and Simone Rocha.

Sports (!)

It could be an adidas track suit, a rugby polo, a motocross jacket, a tennis shirt, a soccer jersey (still), or a vibram shoe — regardless, this trend offers a lot of freedom to take inspiration for sports and sportswear that you actually like and integrate it into your outfit. For me, this may mean styling my rock climbing pants for a coffee date. (Let’s see!) Pictured here at the Verner, Tibi, and Coperni.

Brat world

Lime green (also being called frog green, chartreuse, or pistachio) is a welcomed hangover from Brat Summer. This colour trend also connects to sage and seafoam green trending this spring — mentioned across 3 additional trend forecasts.

Time to buy a slip dress

Sheer was the 7th most-mentioned trend but probably had the most volume of pieces on the spring summer runways (I say probably, but this was also reported by Tagwalk who literally categorises runway pieces by themes). I feel like this trend has been continuously growing in popularity since the Prada spring summer 2024 runway (I still think about this ice blue sheer dress).

All-weather ready

Athletic windbreakers and rainjackets were almost exclusively styled of contrasting sparkly dresses, pictured here at Rabanne, Burberry, and Prada.

Animal prints

This one has been at the forefront of our fashion discussions since late 2023 but was pushed even further by the mob wife aesthetic (make fun of it all you want, but it’s probably the reason we all started wearing fur and leopard print). Animal prints of all sorts still were mentioned across 5 trend forecasts, pictured here at Ganni, Aknvas, and Munthe.

Icy blue

This trend, reminiscent of the 00s, initially surfaced in makeup (mostly eyeshadow) last year. I think that this colour comeback can be attributed to both 00s trends making a comeback more generally, as well as the icy blue featured at prada spring summer 24. The colour was mentioned across 6 trend forecasts and is pictured here on the spring summer 25 runways for Prabal Gurung, Chloe, and Chanel.

And that’s all for now! Thank you for reading and let me know if you want part 2. For this one, I am also taking requests for what kind of data you want to see! Give me the sources, countries, demographics, etc.