8 trending fashion styles to refresh your wardrobe with the latest spring and summer looks
As the vibrant spring season rolls in, Chinese consumers are refreshing their wardrobes with latest fashion. Taobao and Tmall have unveiled the fashion trends for spring and summer 2024. We've selected 8 trendy outfit styles for the season. Hope you'll find the one that appeals to you.
1. Post-Apocalyptic Fashion
Welcome to the post-apocalyptic era. The world is chaotic: the pandemic, global warming, floods, and nuclear strikes... There are many good reasons to turn your wardrobe into post-apocalyptic fashion, featuring a futuristic look inspired by ruins, debris, and desolation. Different from Y2K culture, this style embraces an anti-utopian vision, blending elements of cyberpunk with apocalyptic science fiction.
2. Clean Fit
If you favour minimalistic design, I’m sure you will fancy this outfit style. Cleanfit focuses on a minimalist and relaxed design, with clean lines and smooth tailoring. It avoids excessive decoration or complex patterns, giving a clean and refreshing overall look. This style is highly approachable and inclusive, making it perfect for everyday wear.
3. Urban Mountaincore
Think about dark green safari jackets, multi-pocket vests, cargo pants. Urban mountaincore integrates outdoor sportswear into daily urban life, striking a balance between practicality and fashion. This everyday outdoor wear is highlighted through elements like multiple pockets, patchwork, and drawstrings, making it especially suitable for those weekends spent hiking or camping in the mountains.
4. Boudoircore
We're in an era where women are embracing self-pleasure and self-loving, and the trend of boudoircore mirrors their desire for awaking self-awareness. Boudoircore takes the concept of a boudoir from aristocratic homes and fuses it into the fashion world, highlighting intricate details and a luxurious feel in its designs. It uses materials like chiffon, silk, and lace, along with other fashion elements, to create a romantic and soft vibe.
5. French Romantic Garden Style
Ready to enjoy your spring vacation to soothe your body and mind? French romantic garden style is here for you. This outfit style captures the essence of a perfect holiday with patterns of floral prints, lightweight chiffon or linen fabrics, hollow-carved design, and touches of golden silk. It creates a joyful and dopamine-rich atmosphere, evoking a sense of natural vacation in the spring and summer breeze.
6. Blokette
Blokette is a new mixed style in the fashion world that cleverly combines two visually distinct aesthetic concepts — Blokecore and Coquette. It merges sporty elements with feminine designs, creating a fashion aesthetic that is casual and authentic, yet also exudes a hint of feminine charm.
7. The 70s Retro Fashion
The 70s retro trend is making a lively return to the Spring/Summer 2024 fashion scene. The 70s was a sunny, free-spirited era, with the fashion world revelling in the warm embrace of disco, bohemian vibes, and punk rock. The mix and match of distinct items like distressed denim, bell-bottoms, hippie print tunics, and glittering sequins blend romanticism with rock spirit, evoke nostalgic emotion for an unconventional lifestyle from that era.
8. New Chinese ‘Detached’ Elegance (新中式清冷感)
Growing cultural confidence among Chinese youth has fuelled the surge in popularity of new Chinese style outfits. 2024 has seen more nuanced categories derived from Chinese aesthetic. This outfit style of new Chinese ‘detached’ elegance draws on the classic, relaxed, and elegant designs to showcase the spirit of Eastern civilization. Neutral colours like moon shadow white and warm sand tones, and the refined antique charm of sky blue, Zen-inspired plant motifs, Chinese painting techniques including watercolour gradients and fine brushwork, all constitute the typical mood board of refined and graceful oriental aesthetics.
Images sourced from Xiaohongshu/RED.
