11 Fashion Trends Gen Z Can’t Live Without

Gen Z has done it again: We’ve taken fashion and made it 10 times cooler than millennials could have ever imagined. No hate to other eras of fashion, but 2000s babies like me are kind of slaying—and the world is watching.

If you’re keeping up with the latest 2023 fashion trends, you might have noticed some curveballs (hot takes, perhaps?), particularly coming from Gen Z. Exhibit A) Long socks. No-show socks were so the last decade. Exhibit B) low-rise jeans. While millennials burned every last pair they owned circa 2015, Gen Zers like Zendaya and Emma Chamberlain are wearing them even lower and baggier than before with zero shame.

Abbie Hutzler, PacSun’s Divisional Merchandise Manager, tells StyleCaster about another “dantier” trend she’s spotted. “There’s a huge shift in terms of outfits for tops. Because the bottoms are more tomboy and oversized, what’s happening on the top is ultra-feminine,” she says. Hutzler describes details like rosettes making major comebacks, which is 100 percent in line with what we forcasted for summer 2023 fashion trends.

Being born in 1999 technically places me on the older end of Gen Z, and I have to admit, it’s not my favorite label. But I must give it to the Y2K kids because they know how to dress. And after countless hours of research—who am I kidding, I’ve just been scrolling through Gen Z fashion TikToks for weeks—I noticed these 11 Gen Z fashion trends that aren’t going anywhere.