Will the style of dressing like aunts/uncles be the next AW22 obsession?
The aunt âgée will be one of the unlikely muses of the next Fall/Winter 2022 trend, and her closet – with its pungent smell of mothballs – a forgotten pile of treasures to be unearthed. From wool shawls to chappal-style slippers to Old Wiser Chicer, the Auntiecore style is bringing a polite, understated aesthetic back to the runways, stripping it of anachronism.
Although the trend has always been the leitmotif of the Gucci fashion house under artistic director Alessandro Michele, since 2015, auntiecore has deliberately remained among the ranks of vintage style aficionados, or romantic promoters of “the way we were.”