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Fashion New York News TrendsSeptember 18, 2020

2021 Will Be the Year Of the Essentials

Sara CondeNo Comments

Simple clothes for complicated times

2020 is the year that streetwear has had to take a step back.

After an era of maximalism and boisterous graphics, the essentials are making their great comeback. Driven by the Uniqlo phenomenon, which has set a new standard for quality essentials and at democratic prices, numerous brands, both luxury and high street, have started to produce their own essential garments.

First of all is surely the upcoming Yeezy x Gap collaboration, which will probably be a springboard for a different conception of the basic leader, thanks to the appeal of a prominent name for a line of democratic essentials. But Highsnobiety has also recently unveiled its Staples Collection, which almost shares its name with H&M’s Blank Staples collection. Adidas Originals has just unveiled its Premium Essentials collection, while already some years ago designers like Jerry Lorenzo introduced an ESSENTIALS line in Fear of God’s proposal, which, with the release of the Seventh Collection, has also begun to explore a concept of relaxed and minimal tailoring that, from the essentials’ aesthetic, recovers the simplicity of colors and design but maintaining the quality of the luxury product.

This return of basics represents the natural reaction of the industry to the overcrowding of products and graphics seen in recent years and, for fast fashion and high street brands, represents an opportunity to reinvent itself, starting from a more centered and sustainable proposal and giving up to reproduce the most famous designs seen on the catwalks.

There is a new market of young consumers, linked to the aesthetic codes of streetwear (it should be noted that all the collections mentioned above contain, among the main items, a hoodie declined in various neutral colorways), who prefer to invest in the quality, versatility and longevity of the garments than on the ostentation of their social status symbolized instead by logomania. A process that has been going on for a few years, in fact, but that the lockdown has accelerated dramatically.

“The spike in interest in more casual or sporty clothes has been true of lounge- and activewear, but longer term, we’d expect this to be more about multi-functional clothing or two-mile wear.  These are clothes that you can be comfortable in and that are functional regardless of whether you are working out, relaxing at home or popping to the shops.” – Francesca Muston, vice-president for Fashion Content at trend forecasting company WSGN

The appearance of this new trend has therefore created a ripple effect that has pushed the activewear and sportswear categories (which are, at least in part, essentials) to become a potential and interesting investment also for luxury brands – which have discovered, as in the case of Versace and Fendi, to be able to profit from their own activewear lines and that , if the trend were to take hold in the luxury market, they will certainly create lines of essentials just as, in the 90s, they created diffusion lines to target new groups of consumers. On the same line, the new Comme des Garon PLAY collection, with its campaign shot by Jean Jacques N’djoli, is also a perfect example of luxury sub-label composed of branded and high-quality basics.

If 2021 is the year of essentials, the new trend will be, for better or worse, one of the main reflections that a historical event such as the Covid-19 pandemic will have had on the fashion market – a market that has proved increasingly volatile.

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I am a fashion gypsy, following the fashion front wherever it leads me. You can contact Sara at sara.conde@fashionwindows.net

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