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Fashion United
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fashion United
Women's footwear SS26 trend predictions
Footwear manufacturing is predominately done in China these days and as of this writing, the costs of tariffs importing into the USA are unknown. However, we now know what consumers are looking for and what will most likely be on offer for SS26. In keeping with other parts of the fashion industry, macro trends in footwear have slowed down in recent seasons. As we have witnessed recently, SS26 themes in clothing signal a nostalgia for past stylings, and in particular, the the 'preppy' looks made popular in the 1980s. Looking even further back, historical romance driven by popular TV shows like Bridgerton and the Gilded Age has engendered an interest in exquisite materials and textures. On the other hand, as travel to the East becomes more popular, consumers are gravitating towards that which is earthy and raw in the natural world. Finally, gender fluidity still resonates, with women donning menswear looks. The appropriate footwear is needed to accompany these trends in apparel. Dancing Feet Inspiration for these ballet-influenced slippers comes from the Regency dancing shoes of TV show Bridgerton, last year's micro trend ballet-core and the stylings of footwear designers like Sandy Liang. Materials will include soft leather, coated knit and metallic thread in a variety of colors. Credits: Acne Studio SS25/©Launchmetrics/spotlight Credits: Simone Rocha SS25/©Launchmetrics/spotlight Credits: Esber SS25/©Launchmetrics/spotlight Credits: Alainpaul SS25/©Launchmetrics/spotlight Borrowed From the Boys Gender fluid dressing continues to resonate, and along with it, menswear-inspired footwear styles. For SS26 they get a feminine twist. For example, a lace-up can be rendered in a transparent mesh material. Penny loafers and monk shoes can get interesting color washes and updated details such as off-kilter toe caps and low backs. Credits: Kent Curwen SS25/©Launchmetrics/spotlight Credits: Loewe SS25/©Launchmetrics/spotlight Credits: Prada SS25/©Launchmetrics/spotlight Credits: Victoria Beckham SS25/©Launchmetrics/spotlight The Yacht Club Last year's preppy looks move forward into SS26 to include boating classics like deck shoes. Trending sneakers continue to be low riders. Techno thongs look best when color-blocked. Jelly' and other similar textures will be popular. Credits: Fiorucci SS25/©Launchmetrics/spotlight Credits: Chloé SS25/©Launchmetrics/spotlight Credits: Miu Miu SS25/©Launchmetrics/spotlight Credits: Rave Review SS25/©Launchmetrics/spotlight Craft Work Consumers are gravitating toward artisanal looking strappy summer sandals reminiscent of their Asian travels. Materials include detailed leather and vegan leather, woven straw and raffia in natural or spicy colors. Soles are either flat or on narrow platforms. Credits: Elie Saab SS25/©Launchmetrics/spotlight Credits: Alberta Ferretti SS25/©Launchmetrics/spotlight Credits: Ulla Johnson SS25/©Launchmetrics/spotlight Credits: Zimmermann SS25/©Launchmetrics/spotlight
Fashion United
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fashion United
Cultural shifts shaping spring summer 26 footwear
As we look toward Spring Summer 2026, four distinct footwear directions emerge that will respond to evolving consumer needs and cultural shifts. These directions blend emotional resonance with functional design, offering footwear that honors both heritage traditions and contemporary innovation while addressing the desire for authentic expression. Author Written by Anush Mirbegian, Director of Footwear and Accessories at Future Snoops Sandy Liang SS25 Credits: Via Future Snoops An emerging Neo-Romantic movement celebrates emotionally driven design as consumers seek reassurance in human artistry and skill amid an AI backlash. This cultural sentiment drives demand for pieces that leave an emotional impression. Translating this sense of romance at a market level, brands like Simone Rocha and Sandy Liang have introduced bridal-focused footwear and accessories to younger, fashion-forward consumers, while men's runway themes show a continued move away from heavy streetwear aesthetics toward renewed romance. Key silhouettes include flatforms, sweetened ballet flats, retro suede trainers, and embroidered desert boots. Design details add a charming sweetness through satin rosettes on square-shaped toes or as EVA snap-on elements. Bows in various shapes and sizes adorn in multiples or act as trompe l'oeil embellishments. Suedes and leathers are supple and softened, rendered in calming neutral tones, with pink emerging as a driving key hue for this direction. Fendi SS25 Credits: Via Future Snoops Consumers increasingly recognize the destabilizing impacts of production processes and seek products crafted by people and systems that work in harmony with nature. The ascension of AI and concerns around digital well-being welcome a shift toward permanency and slow, low-tech solutions. A return to respected artisanal wisdom comes through in techniques like weaving, braiding, and embroidery. Key silhouettes include plaited leather sandals, woven strap trekking sandals, and embroidered slip-ons. Weaving extends into full grain leather crafted into open work uppers, or hemp and cotton blends creating ribbons and tapes for details. Strands of carved beads layer onto active-inspired footwear, while centuries-old natural grass jute braiding yields espadrille soles. Chloe SS25 Credits: Via Future Snoops Social media overwhelm and tech distractions have left consumers emotionally numb, while growing global crises encourage an emotional reconnection. The elements serve as both healing metaphor and modality to explore awareness, reinforcing the need for balancing practices like mindful self-regulation. This direction demonstrates the influence of natural forces in footwear through silhouettes like jelly flats and injection molded slides. Water-friendly recycled and renewable materials include bio-based EVA derived from sugarcane and Bloom, an innovative algae-biomass material. Moiré watermarked silks add opulent touches to linings and sandal straps, while gradient-effect crystals and glitter PVC lend glints of sparkle to footwear. Isabel Marant SS25 Credits: Via Future Snoops As social media continues to push culture to the middle, a counter-resistance emerges along the fringes, placing the focus on uniqueness and the rise of subcultures. Consumers are drawn to novel ideas and ways of expressing themselves. Small brands like Tigra Tigra represent this new wave of female-led, craft-centered brands that reimagine tradition. Escapism and sensual indulgence drive design that plunges into hedonistic territory. This manifests through silhouettes like beaded ankle straps, embellished heels, basket woven loafers, and animal printed trainers. Surfaces and details harness summer's sensuality through leathers coated with glossy finishes or crafted with peek-through laser cut perforations. Embellishments including knotting and beading are layered for ultimate visual impact. Lush tropical florals inspire saturated color combinations, visually representing the contrast of embracing pleasure during somber times. These four footwear directions for Spring Summer 26 reflect a broader cultural shift toward authenticity, craftsmanship, and emotional connection, addressing consumer needs ranging from romantic sentiment and artisanal wisdom to elemental healing and hedonistic escapism.
Vogue
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Jennifer Lawrence Doubles Down on the Sneakerina Shoe Trend
Jennifer Lawrence is usually an early adopter of footwear trends. As the long-held title holder of poster girl for quiet luxury (up there with Sofie Richie Grainge and the Olsens of course), she's ushered in the heatwave-friendly and now summer staple mesh ballet flat, pre-empted the jelly shoe revival, and incorporated some it-girl sneakers into her own J. Law style formula. While it took her a little while longer to experiment with the sneakerina trend, it looks like it's becoming a regular in her current summer shoe rotation—-and for good reason. Stepping out in Midtown in New York City, the Die, My Love actor made her second sartorial attempt at sneakerina styling, with a pair of black and cream-soled Wales Bonner velcro shoes. The Mary Jane style, with its thick embossed strap and Vibram sole, is also a perfect post partum shoe for Lawrence, who recently gave birth to her second child shared with partner Cooke Moroney. Photo: Backgrid It's a shoe hybrid that's proliferated on the runways and in drops from across the fashion spectrum: Simone Rocha, Cecilie Bahnsen, Louis Vuitton et al. The 'sneakerina'—a portmanteau of 'sneaker' and 'ballerina,' for the uninitiated—as a name, really, can be applied to any of the more feminine-shaped sneakers of late. Beloved by a more subversive and bold fashion set that includes Chloë Sevigny and Amelia Gray, it's a chaotic, polarizing footwear mash-up that Lawrence shows to be more versatile and relaxed than you'd first think. The rest of the outfit was textbook Jennifer Lawrence for summer. The actor wore an oversized white t-shirt with a Picasso print, a cobalt blue cardi tied around her shoulders (a beloved, transeasonal color), and loose primary red trousers. As for accessories, she forewent a deep dive into her enviable collection of vintage it-bags in favor of a cream knit tote bag, and added a black bucket hat when she'd usually don a novelty baseball cap. Has Oasis summer and the Britpop revival been an influence, perhaps? While Hailey Bieber and Kendall Jenner stick to the heeled sandal hybrid, Selena Gomez styles suits and thongs, and the Olsens outfit everyone in The Row's viral Dune flip-flops, the sneakerina brigade has a newfound member in Jennifer Lawrence. So if you haven't yet, now's your chance to step into the summer shoe trend seems confident is here to stay.
Elle
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
Topshop Is Returning To The Runway — Everything You Need To Know About The Big Relaunch
Topshop's highly anticipated comeback this summer is the launch on every Millennial's lips. Luckily for us, it's kickstarting the new era with a bang — and we're all invited to celebrate. This August, the beloved high street retailer will return to the catwalk for the first time in seven years, staging a blockbuster fashion show in London to reveal its AW25 collection. For now, the location is top secret, but Topshop said it would be a 'landmark' setting in the capital. The show will be followed by a street party, complete with live music, DJ sets and surprise guests from the London creative community. Both events will be open to the public, the brand said. The looks from the show will be available to purchase on the newly re-launched website. Fans can expect to shop fashion-forward takes on new season outerwear, tailoring and denim pieces from both Topshop and Topman, along with a sneak preview of more looks set to drop later in the year. As the first high street brand to stage catwalk shows during London Fashion Week, Topshop was a pioneer of bridging the gap between high fashion and the British high street. The brand first partnered with the British Fashion Council in 2003 to sponsor its NEWGEN talent programme — which counts Simone Rocha, Christopher Kane, Erdem, and Dior creative director Jonathan Anderson among its alumni — before joining the official schedule with a catwalk show in 2005. In its heyday, its fashion shows were staple events on the London Fashion Week calendar, with names like Adowa Aboah and Jourdan Dunn gracing the runway, as celebrities like Kate Moss, Alexa Chung, Kendall Jenner and Lily Allen sat front row. In line with Topshop's roots of discovering and championing next generation talent, the brand is hosting an open casting to recruit models for the show, in collaboration with Wilhelmina Models, with applications open until August 4. See you on the catwalk! ELLE Collective is a new community of fashion, beauty and culture lovers. For access to exclusive content, events, inspiring advice from our Editors and industry experts, as well the opportunity to meet designers, thought-leaders and stylists, become a member today HERE.
Elle
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
There's A Summer Midi Dress For Everyone – Here Are 15 Dresses To Shop Now
Despite being present in virtually every wardrobe, the midi dress is, in our opinion, underrated. Minis and maxis receive abundant fanfare, but the trusty midi is relatively uncelebrated, doing the hard work of clothing us for summer weddings and work events and everything in-between. Well, until now. This season, the midi dress finally found its way out of everyday rotation and onto the SS25 catwalks, where designers celebrated the calf-grazing style in multiple guises. The summer midi dress – be it figure-skimming and polka dotted or oversized and airy – is finally being given the attention it deserves. Consider a summer dress with an interesting neckline, namely something strapless or asymmetric. Specifically, we can't stop thinking about Versace's slinky, floral bandeau dress, which was styled with metallic chartreuse sling-backs and a mini bag (hello again, Y2K) on the runway. Meanwhile, Dior, Bottega Veneta and Jacquemus all made a case for the one-shoulder LBD. Speaking of LBDs, there were plenty more – but not as you know them. Enter the Loose Black Dress – a billowing, much more comfortable alternative to its comparatively littler counterpart. See Simone Rocha and Tibi's offerings (which have pockets!) or Khaite's cut-out tunic dress, offering a glimpse of body beneath the swathes of fabric. On and off the runway, the polka-dot dress occupies a prize spot (pun intended). Notable mentions go to the 1990s-inspired, tomato-red, halterneck midi Kaia Gerber wore to the Tribeca Film Festival last month, and the wispy spot-print slip from Charles Jeffrey Loverboy's SS25 collection. A satin slip is also a fine idea, as advocated by Alexa Chung, Dries Van Noten, and an abundance of editors at fashion week. When it comes to summer midi dresses, the choices are plenty. Luckily, we've narrowed it down for you with our curated edit. Depending on whether you opt for a fit-and-flare dress or a bias-cut, halterneck style, polka dots can read Fifties or Nineties – such are their versatility. Do like Kaia Gerber and wear a halter midi with a block-heel ballet shoe. According to a slew of designers, the shoulder is this season's errogenous zone. For something with a Y2K sensibility, look to Gimaguas, the It girl-approved Spanish brand. Their Lucia dress looks great with studded flats. When temperatures soar, all we really want to wear is a tent dress – luckily for us, they are abundant for SS25. Cos and Arket do an oversized midi especially well, and we're also big fans of Rise & Fall's minimal organza style. Balance the volume with strappy kitten heels or sleek leather flip flops. It's time to dig that strapless bra out of retirement – or do away with a bra altogether, depending on your preference – as the bandeau midi dress is back. For day, team jersey or denim versions with jelly sandals; for night, satin and mules are a tried-and-true partnership. Let us count the ways we love the satin slip dress. It looks just as good worn with ballet flats for a spot of market-hopping as it does for weddings (as a guest or indeed, the bride). Coutille and Ghost stock some of our favourite styles. ELLE Collective is a new community of fashion, beauty and culture lovers. For access to exclusive content, events, inspiring advice from our Editors and industry experts, as well the opportunity to meet designers, thought-leaders and stylists, become a member today HERE.
