2025 Happy New Year!
Why not start with a new look for the New Year?
Some influencers shared #2025 posts changing the quiet image to a millennial cool girl style—especially that aviator sunglasses with a retro leather jacket directly grasp the "cool girl" attribute. They have been "traveled" from the retro craze of the 1990s and 2000s and have been popular again. The reason why this matching can still sit firmly in the position of fashion "top goods" is not unrelated to people's "nostalgia" psychology: on the one hand, it is a tribute to the classics of the past by contemporary young people, and on the other hand, it is also a collective nostalgia of the post-70s and post-80s for the good old days.
Mixing modern popular elements on the basis of retro, interpreting another New Vintage, while gaining a sense of freshness, it also gives the style a strong sense of story. This is probably the reason why aviator+ retro leather jackets are "always new"!
Regarding fashion trends, sociologist Simmel once creatively proposed the "trickle-down" theory, that is, fashion is spread from higher classes to lower classes. The retro craze represented by pilot sunglasses with distressed leather jackets has already shown its trend on the catwalk before fashion trendsetters took to the catwalk. From Channel, Saint Laurent to Diesel, it is not difficult to find that the most popular fashion brands today are all launching cool aviator sunglasses.
This collective "nostalgia" in the fashion circle is a nostalgia for the positive, energetic, and prosperous state of the 1990s and 2000s.
Archaeological street shots of supermodels at that time, Winona Ryder, Kate Moss, Johnny Depp. They all wore sunglasses with motorcycle jackets, which looked a little old fashion but very cool.
Monica in "Friends" was once the goddess in many people's minds. The black beret and brown American pilot jacket are still a beautiful combination that can be 100% copied today.
To be honest, the millennial trend has brought back many fashion items, but retro aviator polarized sunglasses are not only the most popular but also the longest popular. One is because this item is practical enough, and the other is that it can make the wearer look chic and have an attitude.
Maybe you think it’s cold to wear sunglasses with a leather jacket now, but spring will always come, right?
