News + Trends

Trigger warning: jeans are getting longer and longer in autumn

25.8.2023

Translation: machine translated

The fashion industry has once again come up with a trend that will polarise opinion. What do you think of trousers with an integrated trip hazard?

Do you like to get upset about fashion extremes? Extremely low-rise trousers, extremely oversized shoulders, extremely small pockets? If so, you can brush up on your vocabulary for the coming autumn and winter. Because: trend fanatics will be strolling through the world in jeans that will probably drive you up the wall.

Long, longer, trend alert

A video that's actually around two years old keeps popping up in my social media feeds. It shows a TikTok user fiddling around in a pair of Hell On Hood jeans that are about twice as long as she is.

Why is the video now circulating the web again? Because extra-long jeans are playing a not insignificant role in the trend outlook for the upcoming post-summer seasons. From Gucci to Diesel to Ordinary People, the collections for autumn/winter 23 were unanimous: Jeans are allowed to bunch up to the knee from excess, or at least slip under the shoe up to the ball of the foot and go flat.

Gucci Autumn/Winter 23
Source: Spotlight

Diesel Autumn/Winter 23 — Gucci Autumn/Winter 23
Source: Spotlight

The pinnacle of extra-long extravagance so far was shown by Sofie Axters, a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy, at Copenhagen Fashion Week. The legs of her artfully bleached jeans split above the ankles and flow behind the wearer to form a veritable train. Practical? Definitely not. An eye-catcher? Guaranteed.

Sofie Axters, The Royal Danish Academy Spring/Summer 24
Source: James Cochrane

It remains to be seen whether this trend will reach Hell-On-Hood proportions again. You can probably find reasons to be upset even at this stage, right?

Cover photo: James Cochrane

8 people like this article