anything goes with emma chamberlain
fur coats, snake print, and lace, trendy or timeless [video]
Thu, 20 Feb 2025
[video available on spotify] welcome back to another edition of trendy or timeless. over the past week, i've gotten caught up in current fashion and i've noticed a lot of trends. so today, i want to analyze the trends that are on the runway now and discuss whether i think they're trendy or timeless. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Why is Emma addicted to YouTube Shorts?
You know what? It's pathetic how addicted I am to YouTube shorts. It's pathetic. Okay. It's pathetic because I've taken extreme measures to manage my social media addiction. And yet somehow I found a way to get addicted to YouTube shorts. Okay. I got two phones.
One phone that has all of the social media apps downloaded that I keep in my office on the floor for moments when I need to post on social media. And then I have another phone that has no social media apps downloaded on it except for YouTube because I have a soft spot for YouTube. that I carry around all the time that is used mainly for utility purposes, right?
And for a long time, this worked for me. My social media addiction was cured. But then I discovered YouTube Shorts. And over the last few months, my addiction to YouTube Shorts has now just completely erased all of the work I've done to manage my social media addiction. So yes, I did have to delete YouTube off of my phone because I could not go to the bathroom without scrolling on YouTube Shorts.
I could not... go to sleep without watching at least a few YouTube shorts beforehand. Like I fully became addicted. And so I had to delete it off of my phone. I'm talking about my main phone, like the phone, the healthy phone that doesn't have all the social media apps on it. It's still downloaded on the unhealthy phone, but I don't go on that one. So on my main phone, I got nothing, okay?
YouTube Shorts was the last chance I had to scroll, or so I thought. I already found something else to scroll on. But this is a little bit healthier. And I don't think I'm going to become addicted to this, but it allows me to scroll in a way that is mentally stimulating. And when I'm on the toilet, I open this app and I look. This is the app Tagwalk, okay?
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Chapter 2: What is Tagwalk and how does Emma use it?
Tagwalk is an app that basically just shows you runway collections, like fashion runway collections. It's actually really an incredible app. You can look up a fashion show that happened 10 years ago from a certain designer and you can find it on this app and look through it. There's professional images. Like, you get to see everything, right? So...
When I'm on the toilet, when I'm laying in bed, exhausted, needing a little bit more dopamine from a scroll before I go to sleep, instead of going on YouTube Shorts now, I go on this app, Tagwalk, and look at current runway collections. At a certain point, I'm going to run out of current runway collections to look at, and I'm going to have to go back into the archive. But there are so many...
runway shows happening all the time that there's a lot of stuff to look at. And I love analyzing that. I'm actually having an incredible time. And I really don't think it's toxic. I actually think this is a valid replacement for YouTube shorts that is not unhealthy. I think
I'm equally as satisfied from this activity, but I don't think it's destroying me in my attention span like YouTube shorts did. Short form content is just not good for the brain. It's overstimulating. It causes anxiety. I'm already anxious. The last thing I need is short form content in my day-to-day routine. So I'm loving this, okay? And I've been loving this for like the past week.
We'll see how long it lasts. But in this last week, I've consumed more runway fashion than I probably ever have in my life. And not only am I having an incredible time, but it's exciting because I'm noticing trends. Like I'm seeing things happen. You know, when you're observing every single runway show,
you do start to notice the trends and the patterns and the things that are clearly in right now. I mean, I've gone to Fashion Week many times and I don't see nearly as much stuff because I can only physically go to so many shows. Sitting on the toilet and scrolling on Tag Walk, the app, has exposed me to more fashion than I've ever been exposed to in my life. And I'm having an incredible time.
Anyway, let me get to the point, okay? Over the last week, I've really gotten caught up in current fashion. And I've noticed a lot of trends. And I want to analyze them with you. I want to analyze the trends that are on the runway now and discuss whether I think they're trendy or timeless.
And this is actually a series here on Anything Goes called Trendy or Timeless, where we take fashion and discuss together whether we think it's trendy or timeless. And you can't tell me because I can't hear you. So it's sort of actually just one-sided. I'm just telling you if I think it's trendy or timeless. But I'd like to think that it's a conversation. It's not. It's one-sided.
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Chapter 3: Are unconventional shirt designs trendy or timeless?
But it feels to me like a conversation. Without further ado, this is trendy or timeless. This is what I've been seeing on the runway. Let's get into it. Let's start out with shirts being worn incorrectly. Shirts where like the neckline, okay, where the neckline would be. is pulled down.
So now the top is like a tube top, but the top of the tube top is actually where the neck of the shirt would normally be. Okay. And then the arms are tied around the waist. Okay. That's one example. Another example would be a shirt that has folded shirts sewed onto the front. okay? Imagine you're at a retail store and you see a bunch of shirts folded up on the shelf.
Now, imagine you were to take that shirt that's folded and sew that onto the front of a shirt. I've seen that. I've seen, you know, shirts that have another shirt sewn on the front of it and it's kind of falling off. I'm just seeing a lot of this. Like, weird, deconstructed shirts. Shirts reimagined, okay? I'm seeing this everywhere.
I saw this at least in three of the recent shows that I looked at. To me, this is not timeless, okay? This is absolutely not timeless. Do I think that it's sometimes interesting and cool looking? Yes. But I have a really hard time with something that truly serves no purpose, right?
Like, okay, so when the shirt is being worn improperly like this, or, you know, there's a double shirt element happening, like, a shirt sewn onto another shirt, it's not making the shirt easier to wear. It doesn't make the shirt more attractive, right? Like it's not serving any purpose at all. It's not as comfortable. It's not as functional of a garment. And it actually doesn't look better.
Like, I think an alternative to this that is timeless would be like layering three shirts, but wearing them properly. OK, so an example of that would be like wearing a white long sleeve T-shirt. with a beige short sleeve t-shirt over that with like a dark gray tank top over that, okay? You're wearing three shirts at once. You can see that. There's a lot of shirts going on. But it fits good.
You know, it looks clean. It looks cool. In fact, I love that. Like, that's something I really love right now is layering a fuck ton of shirts. And the only challenge with it is that sometimes it's a bit uncomfortable if you're not layering the right kind of shirts.
Like, you need to make sure that things aren't too tight and like the base layer is tight and then the middle layer is a little less tight and the top layer is... A little less tight, it's not the easiest thing to do, right? But when done right and when you have the right fitting pieces in your closet for it, it looks cool and it's actually quite comfortable. I think that that's great.
But the idea of sewing a shirt onto another shirt and it's draping off and it looks kind of confusing and weird... It's not flattering. It's not structurally interesting. Like I haven't seen it done in a way that looks really good. It tends to look a bit awkward. And so I don't think it's timeless. Like I think it's probably exciting maybe every few years.
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Chapter 4: Is wearing a fur coat considered timeless?
I'm not remembering perfectly, but because majority of them were neutral and timeless, I'm just going to say overall that the fur coat is timeless. Because I think, yes, it can be not timeless, but it's because it's deviating from the classic, right? And majority of what I'm seeing right now is classic. So I don't know. You probably won't catch me wearing a fur coat anytime soon.
I mean, if my stylist, Jared, and I decide, wait a minute, we want to wear a fur coat. Don't judge, okay? Because we're unpredictable when we're together and come up with weird ideas. But when it comes to my own wardrobe, when it comes to what I'm wearing on a daily basis, it's not a fur coat. It's just not. But I do think that they're timeless. Okay, next.
This is a very oddly specific trend, so just stick with me. Semi-realistic photographic faces and bodies printed onto clothing. OK, like a dress that looks like it's see through and you can see the body through it. You know, a shirt that is printed in such a way that it looks like what a person wearing a cardigan would look like. Does that make sense?
Like, OK, like the shirt looks like a 3D printed cardigan with like the folds in it. And like with the buttons sort of bent a little bit as though like a body is wearing the cardigan, but it's like 3D printed onto like a mesh shirt, okay? Or another example would be like a face, like somebody's face, like printed onto a garment, very large, like very large face, like printed.
I've seen quite a few variations, but I would say the most popular is almost like, maybe we should call it x-ray clothing. where it's like a 3D printed naked body printed onto a shirt or a dress. So it almost looks like the piece of see-through and you can see body, but it's just printed on. That's the most common. And I saw that time and time again.
But there were other versions of this too that I feel like are similar enough that I consider them to be the same. But that was the most common one. I think this is cool. I think it's smart. I think it's interesting. I think it's edgy. I think it's kind of tongue in cheek. It's like a bit silly. Sometimes it's sort of can either fall under like cool, edgy, badass. almost like smart ass.
Like it kind of has one of two vibes. It's either kind of cool, edgy, smart ass, or it's silly, funny, sort of sweet, quirky. And I quite like it. I'm not obsessed with it. It's not like something I'm passionate about. But I like it. But I do not think it's timeless. I don't. Particularly the nude body, like the naked body trend where it looks like an x-ray is showing through the clothes.
That, I think, is trendy because it's not like you can wear that everywhere. Do you know what I'm saying? It's not super functional. And it is very edgy and like a statement. And I think... For that reason, it's just trendy. I also think it's trendy too, because I feel like modesty as well kind of comes in and out of style. And it's definitely not like a modest choice, right?
When it comes to bodies sort of being printed onto clothing that are not nude, okay? Like the example I gave of this sweater, where it's almost like you took a photo of somebody wearing a sweater and then printed that onto a shirt, right? I think that that's a bit less trendy than the nude trend, but I think what's truly timeless is the sweater itself, right?
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Chapter 5: Are semi-realistic prints on clothing a lasting trend?
Let's say there was a big realistic image of a dog on a garment, or there was a big realistic image of an apple on a garment. That actually sounds kind of cool. You know, that actually might just be so odd and unusual, the concept of like printing something realistic and large on a shirt. That actually might be so odd that it's timeless, if that makes sense. Like it's such a unique idea.
It's so weird. that it might always sort of be intriguing. So maybe that's the most timeless of all of these examples in this sort of category of like semi-realistic photographs and prints on clothes. But all the garments that I saw that had these big, realistic looking photographs of people, I was like, that is one of the weirder things I've ever seen. I don't think I love it.
I don't think I love it. It weirdly is so odd that it's almost like Timeless. I don't know. I'm confused by it. Moving on. I've been seeing so many body suits worn without pants. OK, so like almost like a leotard. But I've seen them in many different forms. There's infinite body suits on the runway right now like this. Some of them are long sleeves. Some of them are short sleeves.
Some of them have cutouts. Some of them are lace. Some of them are stretchy. Some of them are like there are so many. But I'm just seeing a lot of sort of body suits where it almost looks like a one piece swimsuit of some sort going down the runway. I find it fascinating because, again, you know, this is not a trend that you can actually go out and wear. You know, you can't go to work.
You can't babysit your little cousin. You can't go to church. You can't even really go to the grocery store in one of these leotard sort of bodysuit, sort of one-piece swimsuit looking pieces. However, you can layer a bodysuit. You can wear a bodysuit with a skirt. You can wear a bodysuit with pants. On the runway, it's being shown alone.
But I imagine that maybe they're doing that to just showcase the design of the bodysuit. And they actually would recommend their customer to wear it with pants, of course, because that's kind of how you would have to wear it. But I don't know. I think the concept of sort of a one-piece leotard sort of bodysuit, I think that is a timeless concept.
And a lot of the ones that I saw were simple and versatile and classic, like nothing too crazy. So I would go ahead and say that the bodysuit is timeless. However, I do not love a bodysuit. Like in reality, when it comes to styling a bodysuit for day-to-day life, I don't love a bodysuit, okay? Number one, I find them to be very uncomfortable.
Number two, I don't actually like the look of a shirt being tight. Okay, so if I'm styling the bodysuit with pants because that's how you would have to style the bodysuit for it to be socially acceptable, I don't like the look of a tight shirt tucked into my pants for the most part.
I actually like the look of a slightly looser shirt where, you know, you can see the bottom of the waist of the shirt. Perhaps it's hitting at a very flattering point where, you know, on the waist of your pant. And I like that. I don't love tucking in a shirt. And even worse, I don't love a bodysuit where the shirt is flat to the body. I just don't like how that looks.
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Chapter 6: How does Emma view the bodysuit trend?
So yeah, the whole pantsless trend, I think, is not timeless. But I think, yeah, a bodysuit itself. Sure. It's timeless. Okay. Next lace. I saw so much lace on the red carpet. Lace is just the textile of the season. It seems to me, I feel like every day when I wake up, I love lace a little bit more. But I just felt delighted every single time I saw lace on the runway.
I was seeing lace tights, lace bodysuits, slash lace leotards, if you will, lace gloves, lace tops, lace leggings, like lace everywhere. Lace was happening. Lace could not be avoided. Everywhere I looked, I saw lace everywhere. Not only do I know that lace is timeless, okay? I don't think it's up for debate. I think it is absolutely timeless. I think its recent applications are even more timeless.
I don't think I saw one bad use of lace. I looked at 50 runway shows. Not one use of lace was bad. I liked it in every single application. Now, there are times when I don't like lace. Don't get me wrong. In fact, up until recently, I didn't love lace. I really didn't love it. I was often disappointed when I saw it. It was often used in ways that I disliked.
But as time has gone on, I've seen more and more uses of lace that I love. And then over the last week, seeing it be used in so many beautiful ways on the runway. Now I'm obsessed with lace. I love lace. Where's the lace in my closet? I don't have any. That's fine. If I find something beautiful that's lace, I might pick it up, but I'm not searching for it. I'll let it find me.
I am sort of manifesting a pair of little lace gloves though, because I saw some lace gloves on the runway and I was like, that is really good. Also lace tights, though. I really enjoy lace tights. Personally, I'm less interested in like a lace bodysuit, even like a lace top. I really like lace being like a subtle detail, like a subtle texture addition.
Like, yeah, lace tights, lace socks, lace gloves, little peeps of lace here and there. Perhaps like a lace turtleneck that could be layered underneath other clothing. That could be kind of interesting, too. But I prefer it more as like a subtle detail. But either way, I even love it when it's a main detail. I just think it's great. And I'm into it right now.
And I just thought it was delightfully done time and time again. So I guess in conclusion, lace is timeless and I'm manifesting some lace gloves. I briefly pause this episode of Anything Goes to let you know that this episode is brought to you by Squarespace. You know when a website looks insanely good and actually works? That's probably Squarespace.
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Chapter 7: Is lace a timeless fashion choice?
Like when we look back on 2025, we're going to remember polka dots. We're going to remember stripes. But I think that they're timeless. Plaid? Come on, it's plaid. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's plaid. You can't hate it. You either hate it or you don't. Like, plaid was really trendy a few years ago, and I really loved it then. And then it sort of maybe went out of style a little bit.
I still love plaid, you know? Whereas, like, checkerboard print, I really loved it, and then I fucking hated it. I don't know. Anyway, back to 60s mod, sort of retro-y patterns. Hell nah. Okay, next. I cannot tell you how many pairs of flip-flops I saw on the runway. It was unbelievable. There were so many flip-flops. There were pairs of regular flip-flops, just normal average flip-flops.
There were little high-heeled flip-flops. There were little wedged flip-flops. There were flip-flops that were almost like a boot flip-flop, like where I've actually been seeing those for the last few years. That is not new, but alas, I saw it on the runway. where it's like a flip-flop, but then the top extends up the leg. Does that make sense? It's okay if it doesn't.
They're kind of weird looking anyway. You're not missing that much. You probably wouldn't buy them anyway. You know, it's all good. I just kept seeing flip-flops over and over and over and over again. And it's funny because for many years, I absolutely hated flip-flops, like despised them, thought that they were hideous, would not be caught dead in a flip-flop. And then...
I got reintroduced to the idea of a flip-flop when I sort of had this epiphany that a flip-flop might actually be cute during the summer. It might. A little classic leather rainbow flip-flop, okay? Not rainbow like color rainbow, but the brand rainbow, okay? If you don't know what the brand Rainbow is, it's a brand of like classic surfer flip flops. They're just classic.
They have like a little rainbow tag on them. It's like super cute, super like California surfer vibe. Hawaii surfer vibe. Very nostalgic for me. You know, I like dreamed of having a pair of rainbow flip flops when I was young and I eventually got a pair and I absolutely love them. I think I got a hand me down for my cousins. Like they had rainbow flip flops and then pass them down to me.
They were like a pinkish beige color and I was obsessed with them. Okay. They were so cool. So like surfer girl, California surfer girl vibes. I adored it. And a few summers ago I was like, wait, that's kind of a vibe. And so I wore rainbow flip-flops the whole summer. I don't know, like kind of in like a wannabe surfer girl way. You know what I mean?
I cannot surf, but I can wear cute little leather flip-flops. And I did. And so that kind of got me back into the world of the flip-flop. Okay. Cause I was really against it. I thought that they were unflattering. I thought that they were like impossible to style. I was super closed off to them beforehand. So that kind of wore me back up to them.
And then recently I bought a pair of like plain black flip-flops. I was on a trip to my hometown and my dad's a surfer, actually. He's actually like a good surfer. He's not like surfing big, huge, huge waves, but he's a surfer. He surfs almost every single day. And on this trip home, I decided to surf with him. It went terribly.
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Chapter 8: What are Emma's thoughts on lingerie as outerwear?
Because it's now a boot flip-flop. Yeah, it's just sort of like a pointless shoe, right? It's like half winter, half summer. You're exposing the toes, but you're covering the leg. If it's a hot summer day, it's 90 degrees, and you want to put on your flip-flops, but you have flip-flop boots, that's not very comfortable. You know? I don't know. I...
But I think like a little kitten heel flip-flop is for the most part timeless. I think like weird flip-flop wedges, like let's relax. That's trendy. That is not going to last, you know. I think majority of flip-flops are timeless, but be careful out there. Okay, next we have another shoe. Knee-high sneakers. I saw this multiple times on multiple runways.
To me, these are an absolute catastrophe and they are unforgivable. Yeah, they are. Yes, they are. They are unforgivable to me. They are atrocious to me. And I don't say that about a lot of stuff. I really don't. Like, I don't know. It takes a lot for me to call something atrocious. A knee-high sneaker to me is one of the worst things I've ever seen. And I never liked it, right?
Like back in the day when I was a kid, like when I was eight, it was trendy to, you know, get the knee-high Converse. Remember that? I hated them back then. I hate them now. I'll tell you why I hate them. Okay. I'm not just like, oh my God, it's ugly. I hate it. No, I genuinely have like reasons for hating it.
Number one, from a functional standpoint, you cannot get your foot into a knee high sneaker without a zipper, but there are laces all up the front. So it's an illusion. The point of laces on shoes is are to fasten the shoes once you get your foot in there. But you usually loosen the laces and then get your foot in. So it's already a little bit silly in that way.
But to give the shoe the benefit of the doubt, I'm going to look at it as though it's like a boot. There are sometimes lace-up boots that also have a zipper. But the idea is that you put your foot in, zip up the shoe, and then tighten it even more with the laces. So Even though sneakers are more of a utilitarian shoe, like, you know, the laces are for tightening the shoe, fastening the shoe.
If the shoe doesn't need to be fastened or tightened, it usually will have like a little bit of elastic. So you're slipping your foot in to a shoe that has elastic and there is no laces. There's never like a zipper to zip something up and then faux laces. Like if a sneaker doesn't need a lace, it's not going to have laces. It'll somehow fasten or close in another way.
Elastic, Velcro, something else. But like a sneaker is a functional shoe, okay? A boot is more of a beautiful shoe. Like it's also more of a complex shoe, right? Like it's made often out of a stiffer material. The idea of zipping up a boot in the back and then tightening it in the front to me doesn't feel as ridiculous, right? But I think it's because that's the nature of a boot.
It's just a more complex shoe. Right. And in order to fasten it, it's just more complicated. But like the whole point of a sneaker, I feel like is that it's like a functional shoe. Right. So if now you have a knee high sneaker that you could never possibly get on unless there was a zipper. Now it's just making the whole concept of the sneaker goofy. It's just extreme. And now it's a gimmick to me.
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