9 Traditional 90s Tendencies that Everyone seems to be Carrying in 2025

For those of us old enough to remember ’90s fashion the first time around, we have mixed feelings about the return of some classic ’90s trends. After all, the same decade that made style icons of Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy also gave us handkerchief hemlines, platform trainers and copious amounts of body glitter.

If you too spent most of the 1990s in denim skirts and plastic chokers, you may be reading this with trepidation. Before you panic, it’s not the gaudy wide-leg jeans or cargo maxi skirts that are coming back into fashion. For every fashion faux pas from the period, there are more than enough classic 90s trends that cover past mistakes and surprisingly still look good today—and the style set is already ahead of the curve.

Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy is a perpetual fashion icon, with her streamlined look and decisively minimal sense of style still a source of inspiration for many today.

Case in point: Anouk Yve updating one of her many ’90s New York street-style looks with contemporary pieces.