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So far, 2025 fashion has been defined by 2000s Americana: Californian board shorts, Abercrombie polos, and the Pope in a White Sox hat. As Oasis touches down stateside, however, on their first, explosive tour in 16 years, they bring with them cooler weather, too brisk for some of the year’s most American trends. They also usher in a larger import of more casual silhouettes in Liam Gallagher’s signature Stone Island parkas, just as Reformation and Mango launch fall campaigns featuring long, leather bombers and royal-inspired tartan skirts. No one does fall dressing better than the Brits, whose gloomy weather puts Wellies in every season’s capsule wardrobe. But this year harbors a particularly acute thrash from Timothée Chalamet and Spike Lee in Knicks regalia and Converse, to stars dominating autumnal press tours in knit Alexander McQueen and all-plaid ensembles.
Punk and Britpop are back, it seems, this time mixed with the melting-pot spectacle of American internet culture and showstopping nostalgia. But how can you revive the flannel without feeling like it’s 2014? How can you honor the mod without it feeling like cosplay? To capture the whimsy and resistance in British dressing, I argue it’s as much about flashiness as it is about utility.
Athleisure Is Out, Luxury Sportswear Is In
Try as some might to break from the normalcy of sweatpants-as-pants, stylish loungewear will not die. The most American version of this is the leggings-cum-yoga-pants trend popularized by PINK in the aughts and SKIMS in the 2020s. But the British take is an ode to Olympian icons and the nation’s working class football hooliganism, since rendered iconographic by Oasis, the Spice Girls, and now in the distinctly anti-British Kneecap.
The irony of an innately politicized uniform being co-opted by elite trendsetters is neither lost on me or uncommon, but to remake the tracksuit, specifically—an ill-fitting set of garments invented to keep athletes’ muscles warm—into a royal-adjacent fashion statement is so ridiculous it’s charming. A tracksuit slips between every-bloke sportiness and royal classism, making its ostentatious possibilities a playground for forward-thinking, gender-neutral dressing.
Whether it’s a vulgar “OASIS” logo across your chest or sequins and embellishments that would make the outfit impossible to exercise in, this year’s aim is: make sportswear as luxurious and gaudy as possible.
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Your Parents Are Cool Now
As cool as Oasis was in 1996, the Gallaghers are dyed-in-the-wool Gen Xers, and the things they help make mainstream are now back in style only because of nostalgia. The good news—and one of the most unassumingly promising aspects of Britain’s rigid classicism—is that this reminiscence is mixed with a deep reverence for the old school, the matronly, and the utilitarian. That Liam’s signature rockstar look has always been so uniquely sensible eases his reaclimation to hunky idolization. Yes, slightly ill-fitting jeans and a long parka are very dad-like, but that rejection of conventional swagger is part of what has always made him hot.
The most iconic British brand is Burberry, known best for a grandma-like checkered print that has for generations spanned sexy mini skirts to royally sensible outwear. There is no more perfect demonstration of Britain’s aesthetic admiration for the past and for the ugly: a print made for aging Queen Elizabeth’s ascot re-upping its youth appeal by dressing Liam Gallagher’s influencer son in blue, plaid vamps.
Outfits Heavy With Patterns and Hardware
At Madison Square Garden this August, Lady Gaga closed one of five shows with the 14-year-old track “Heavy Metal Lover,” donned in a custom leather jacket she first wore in 2011. It’s impossible not to read this as an ode to British punk, with her current MAYHEM era being launched last fall with her acquisition of an archival, gothic cloak made by the post-punk rebel Alexander McQueen. Look elsewhere, and you’ll also find Matt Smith in the just-released Caught Stealing playing 90s Britpunk in a mohawk and studded jacket; Jenna Ortega in haunting, be-crossed Vivienne Westwood. If the utter pervasion of rivets—on ballet flats, bags, and Birkenstocks—wasn’t sign enough, consider this your warning that plaid, leather, and “Heavy Metal” are about to overtake our world.
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Keep Calm and Shop On
Recent trends have been relatively easy to ride; we all have something that looks Californian-esque. But dowdy silhouettes and gaudy activewear is a different game, necessitating enough self expression to confidently navigate an onslaught of seemingly un-sexy garments. While this opens the door to some positively fun shopping, however, it is also a great opportunity to shop second-hand for the kinds of jerseys, leather, and sensible shoes Westwood, Sporty Spice, or the Gallaghers would have actually worn.
