I mustache you a question. Have you kept your statement owl necklace? You may have yearned to embrace the forgiving embrace that a peplum shirt offers. Do you want to buy a new pair ballet flats this autumn?
It may seem incredibly premature to millennials, but the return of 2010s fashion—categorized as the period between 2010 and 2016—is just around the corner. Slowly but surely, the decade’s hallmarks are being transformed from “cheugy” to cool. Fashion websites are offering tips for replacing your delicate gold jewelry (sob) with statement necklaces, and insisting the aforementioned peplums are “actually cute.” Young TikTokers are yearning nostalgically for 2014 Tumblr culture, they’re grooving to “Like a G6,” and they’re sharing their tips for cutting a T-shirt to hang off the shoulder, declaring, “The 2010s are back.”
If you still don’t believe me, just check out this photo of Gen Z style darling Sofia Richie wearing Chevron pants.
“I’d never thought I’d say this ever again, but strangely enough I’m here for tights under shorts…in a nonpatterned way,” Viola Bergstrom, a style creator who recently posted a TikTok sharing her favorite statement necklaces for summer, tells Glamour.
Bergstrom says she’s embracing the return of 2010s style with both “pleasure and intimidation.”
“I happily embrace the statement necklaces but will style it together with more quiet-luxury looks and not with crazy patterns like back in the day,” she says. She’s also iexcited to add peplum tops to her wardrobe.
It was probably the return of ballet flats that, in hindsight we saw as the “canary in the mine.” Glamour recently noted was having a massive comeback for 2023, driven largely by fashion’s recent obsession with the old-money or “stealth wealth” trend, but a 2010s staple nonetheless. Lillian Ahenkan, a.k.a. Flex Mami is an Australian television presenter and influencer who also has her own jewelry brand, Post Primadonna.
“No less than two years ago, people were scoffing at the possibility of ballet flats returning to the mainstream and claiming that we as a society would never make ourselves—or our arches—suffer again,” she tells Glamour. “Yet now go to the website of any major retailer and you’ll see them front and center.”
Ahenkan recently posted a video on her TikTok account for her jewelry line and predicted the return of statement necklaces, saying, “Hate to break it to ya.” The comments on her video were split, with about half cheering the return and swearing to dig theirs out of the closet, with the rest saying something along the lines of “please God no.” Ahenkan, though, says she’s here for it.
“As a lover of wearing my weight in gold, this warms my heart,” she says.
The appeal of tapping into your inner 2013 for most creatives is to mix some of the current aesthetic trends with personal touches. One, Jordyn Edgerton, tells Glamour that along with ballet flats, she’s noticed a proliferation of bows and Peter Pan collars on TikTok, which she says she is excited to try. She’s also noticed a rising interest in the Tumblr indie-sleaze aesthetic, with patterned tights, knee-high socks, and plaid growing in popularity too.