Barbiecore, Coastal Grandmother, E Girl: Find Your Style Vibe From Our List Of Fashion Aesthetics
Just like our changing moods, our closets too have one for every season. With the advent of social networking sites and an aggressive conversation around ‘what’s your aesthetic like?’ fashion has found its branches. From Normcore, Vintage, and Y2k to now Barbiecore, and E-Girl, everyone’s hoping to dive deep into the sea of fashion’s favourite aesthetics, that are bound to change with time. While this surely hasn’t been a new term for those who are religiously keeping a tab of newly-found terms. It has been since the late 60s that aesthetic in a rather unknown term, existed in every closet. The term in the world today, plays an important part in defining an individual’s distinct vibe, pictures on their Instagram grid or a term to help explain to our parents about her likes and dislikes. Aesthetic, as we use it today is much more like an everyday chore, that needs to be fed both online and offline. And helping you find your own (if you still haven’t), we have listed down our current favourite fashion aesthetics, that you can try for yourself. Let’s get started?
Barbiecore
With a hyped-up discussion around Barbie’s favourite colour pink, this trend is your way to embrace the shade to its fullest. From Valentino’s Pink PP collection, Marget Robbie’s first look from the Barbie film and Kim Kardashian turning into a real-life Barbie for Balenciaga, this aesthetic hopes to see you dipped in pink, just like the 80’s, when the trend actually found its footing.
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Cottagecore
Reminding us of calming barns, and soothing mist of flowers and greens, Cottagecore aims to revisit the simple, sustainable way of living. Infused with some romance, this trend hopes to delight you with a sense of escapism. It offers a range of minimal silhouettes, peasant blouses, bow strings, tier dresses and paisleys, all dipped in a sorbet colour palette. It is all about reliving the cottage, village life of the early 1920s and 1930s.
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Pearlcore
2022’s beloved trend sweetheart, this style aesthetic has already taken the top spot in every closet. From squeezing into jewellery boxes to being stitched on luxurious fabrics, Pearlcore today brings a trunk full of nostalgia with Gen-Z approaching it through beaded necklaces. The loyal to only royal gemstone has now become a red carpet delight, for actors like Euphoria’s Barbie Ferreira, our very own Ranveer Singh, Sonam Kapoor and musicians Justin Bieber and Harry Styles to name a few.
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Night Luxe
A favourite trend aesthetic amongst ‘It’ girls, the Night Luxe trend is responsible to push the idea of a material girl (well, not literally). From finding your pick in luxurious fabrics like–silk, leather, and cashmere to embracing the brightest sequin and wealthiest brands, Night Luxe is aspirational but achievable.
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Coastal Grandmother
A delightful addition to TikTok’s list of trends, this nostalgia-inducing aesthetic is filled with straw hats, and comfortable linen, packed with jute mules and old-school prints. To achieve this trend, one can rely on Nancy Meyers’ onscreen portrayals, or fill their carts with striped cardigans, creme trousers, tank dresses, and jute totes.
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Soft Girl
Much like our beloved Cassie from Euphoria and a gleeful Jackie Burkhart from That ’70s Show, the Soft Girl aesthetic is all things dreamy. If you are a fan of baby braids, pastel hues, floral dresses, and blush in abundance, this aesthetic is your match made in heaven. We’re sure you will heart this one.
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Y2K
A season fluid aesthetic, that pays tribute to the cult fashion of the 2000s, Y2K is one of the biggest in the trend category. An aesthetic that carved the style and emotion of every 2000s’ movie, Y2K is a favourite amongst the Gen-Z tribe and will continue to be for the future lot. Bracketing within itself, the trend incorporates a range of baby tees, crochet bags, scarf tops, pinstripe, pop-coloured jewellery, baguettes, printed bottoms, hair clips, skater skirts and everything that reminds you of the ‘blast from the past.’
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Kidcore
Are you a fan of colourful smiles, hello kitty and cute rainbows? Well, if yes, then Kidcore is the one for you. Bringing the childhood nostalgia of the 90s, Kidcore is all about colours, especially saturated versions of red, blue and yellow. To nail the trend that found its hype in the year 2020, one can shop for baggy denim teamed with rainbow-coloured jumpers, bright t-shirts with cartoon character prints like the famous–Looney Tunes, and patchwork, colourful pants.
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VSCO Girl
Loaning inspiration from the picture and video editing app–VSCO, a VSCO girl is pretty much like a California girl. The aesthetic steals some elements from the surfer lifestyle. Oversized t-shirts being their signature, everything from a bubblegum-hued polaroid camera, shell chokers, scrunchies in every shade, to crocs teamed with socks, come bundled up in the famous Fjallraven Kanken bag (I still remember this bag, haunting me on my Instagram feed).
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Normcore
Romanticising the ever-so-basic style choices made by minimalists, Normcore is super easy to replicate. Daring to stay away from the extravaganza offered by a million other trends, Normcore was first heard in the glossy pages of a trend report in 2013. This aesthetic is all about embracing the simplicity of basics, offered by solid-hued shirts, stonewashed denim, dad sneakers, baseball caps, polo t-shirts and everything you can imagine being sported by our beloved Chandler from Friends.
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E-Girl
This trend found its path by the virtue of internet, and fast pacing applications. As defined by the Urban Dictionary, an Electronic girl is someone who “watches anime and dresses kinda Lolita”. This interestingly indicates the aesthetic inspiration the Japanese street style aesthetic. The TikTok-born trend takes you inside the hidden closets of famous onscreen characters like–Harley Quinn or a transformed Kat from Euphoria. An E-Girl loves to wear graphic t-shirts, slides into fishnet tights, embraces neons, goes all out with beanies, experiments with butterfly clips, draws hearts under her eyes, and paints colourful tears.
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Dark Academia
The aesthetic romances with literature, making a stack of tall books its favourite accessory. If the Dead Poets Society is on your list of favourites, the autumn colours of its frame will guide you towards this style. Layering plays an important role in this aesthetic, with earthy-toned cardigans, collared shirts, berets, blazers and leather briefcase bags topping your shopping carts.
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K-Fashion
With the growing popularity of BTS, K-dramas and girl groups like–Blackpink, K-fashion hopes to bring the flourishing fashion aesthetic of South Korea into our closets. Amalgamating cute with sexy, this style aesthetic is predominantly ruled by colourful hair, hyper-glamourised street style, plaid skirts, tunic dresses over turtle necks, combat boots, colourful sweatshirts, and layered garments in abundance.
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Fairycore
A dreamlike wardrobe that comes filled with elements of butterflies, flowers and shimmering water, Fairycore is all about living in a fairytale. It ranges from whimsical floral gowns, ruffled hemlines, soft curls, fairy charm necklaces, and bib collars, to beautiful wings, that talk about magic through every hem.
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Clean Girl
With my Instagram feed filled with videos about every girl who hopes to achieve the minimalism of a ‘clean girl,’ this aesthetic is the internet’s current favourite. Someone who always has a good skincare routine, glowing makeup with not a strand of hair out of place, this aesthetic hopes for you to look out for silk slip dresses, basic tank tops, claw clips, strappy low-heels, and pale jumpsuits to name a few.
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Skatecore
Defining the true aesthetics of a skater girl, Skatecore finds its inspiration in the 1940s’ skater culture. While this aesthetic comes with a range of sub aesthetics like a skate punk, soft skater girl and more. It is all about fashion that is also functional. It includes everything from loose-fitted trousers, beanies, canvas shoes, cargo pants, graphic sweatshirts, to baseball hats, and course skateboards tuned as the coolest accessory.
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Spacecore
If the stars and galaxies fascinate both your mind and your sartorial style, then this aesthetic is the perfect pick for you. For the fans of astronomy, this aesthetic allows you to wear your love for space on your sleeve. From star, moon and sun laden outfits, to chunky rhinestone accessories, you can also experiment with the famous galaxy hair and charms ruled by your sun sign.
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Indie
As the name suggests, Indie style aesthetic isn’t about big fashion labels or swimming in luxury, but finding a way to dish out your individuality. This aesthetic talks about a variety of casual wear, and endorses the idea of thrifting (which sure has found its base in the last two years). An Indie kid is someone who wears checkered sweater vests, skater skirts, invests in bandanas, bell bottoms, and takes tons of references from the 80s.
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So, what’s your stye aesthetic like?
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