10 Gifts Inspired by This Year’s Best Menswear Trends
Once 2024 had come to an end, we made a prognosis on what'll be the 2025's defining menswear trends. By then halfway into the 2020s we wondered: "Where is fashion headed from here?"
Both symptomatic of and pushing against what was the decade's foremost code of dress, quiet luxury, the male wardrobe has embraced tasteful functionality over eccentric idiosyncrasies. Or more plainly, good clothes have finally re-maneuvered into the conversation.
Careful details, haptics, materials are indicators of quality, not the standalone showmanship of a garment. 2025, in trends, was marked by an unruly climate's need for pragmatism with a polish. And what that ought to materialize as in gifts, is about to become public knowledge.
Shop Our Picks of 2025's Trend-Leading Gifts:
Dries Van Noten Leather and Suede Sneakers
From the literal grounds up, let's begin with Dries Van Noten's welcomely ubiquitous suede sneaker: Leading the charge of a movement that aimed to flatten-out footwear, and accommodative too of the industry-wide obsession with brown, the house's slender kicks became luxury's most articulate response to the adidas Samba. Available now in a wide range of colorful variants, the silhouette's innate simplicity struck a chord with footwear lovers of all camps, sitting right at the intersection of dressy and casual, formal shoe and sneaker.
Our Legacy Black Camion Boots
Elsewhere, in boot world to be exact, barely any model made as big of splash as Our Legacy's Camion design. Another feat of restrained elegance, and undoubtedly at home on the same shoe rack as its peer above, the Camion boot is emblematic of a collective shift towards maturity and a more modern guise of masculinity.
Vans Classic Slip-On Shoe
Now, in something more akin to a nostalgic throwback, classic Vans have staged a comeback. The often imitated skate shoe served as inspiration to everyone from Dior and Loewe to Bottega Veneta and Valentino this past year. And however nice those iterations might've been, no one does it quite like the Californians themselves.
COS Slouchy Leather Tote Bag
In more than one ruling, COS succeeded at being the only high street name present in Lyst's quarterly rankings of hottest brands. Its accessibly priced, elegantly minimalist leather goods and knitwear are to blame.
Lemaire Small Belted Tote Bag
But speaking of totes: As an alternative to its blockbuster Croissant bag, Lemaire made sure to take things even further back to basics, with a clean-lined bucket bag the likes of which we'd like to see you replace your briefcases with.
JW Anderson Zip-front Fleece Jacket
Onto apparel, there's hardly another item that is this plain but has also evoked as much ire this year as the zip fleece. Love it or hate it, for its practical nature or charged connotations, the zippered pullover (half, quarter, full) is a staple that packs much harder a punch than its normie allure would suggest.
Nike x Jacquemus GORE-TEX 2-in-1 Jacket
Though the two's revival of Nike's very first and plenty-copied Moon Shoe claimed most of the spotlight, Jacquemus and the American active wear giant's entire collection bore fruit worth plucking. With so many collaborations out there, it's hard to discern the actually decent instances. This is one.
Carhartt Loose Fit Traditional Coat
No prediction rung as true as the takeover of field jackets and barn coats. Be they from the original workwear source...
AMI Paris Padded Cotton Worker Jacket
...or by the hands of luxury brands: the often contrast-collared, multi-pocketed cotton top layer has yet to meet its outerwear match. Will its reign stretch into 2026, or will designers' pirate jacket agenda knock it off the pedestal?
Maison Francis Kurkdjian Grand Soir Eau de Parfum
Last but not least, let us honor the gradual but ongoing, and so-far peak-turn away from mass fragrance. Never before have niche perfumers and younger indie artisans experienced such demand for long-lasting, unique, but ultimately useful product.
There is, indeed, a pattern here...
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