Nike fanny pack slides, Versace ‘Joots’ and other fashion moments that were SO 2018…

28 November 2018


Trends so outlandish, you need to see to believe.

We all know the power social media — namely, Instagram — has on setting a fashion trend alight and driving sales. To succeed in the feed, brands have taken advantage of creating memorable and unexpected fashion moments – memes, if you will – honing streetwear’s graphics and logos causing logomania and a 90s/00s aesthetic revival.

By analysing spikes in fashion demand throughout the year, global search engine Lyst compiled a timeline of some of the major fashion moments that had everybody trolling the interwebs to know more… Some will strike you immediately, while others may result in being puzzled. A word of caution, once you discover why Fendi’s scarf was so searched, you can’t unsee it.

2018 was a year when politics, fashion and culture felt more intertwined than ever.

Scroll for the top ten most unexpected fashion items for 2018: 

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