Accessories are the Hottest Trend of 2025
Lately, I can’t get enough of accessories. They have become my kryptonite.
It might take me 20 minutes to take everything off at the end of the night. Hell yeah, my bag needs charms just as much as I do, and yeah, I want blinding rocks around my neck and on my fingers. You’ll know im coming by the sound of my bangles jangling a mile away. I might be wearing the most basic outfit, but my accessories are doing the talking.
Your outfit is the baseline, but how you accessorize is what really puts the outfit together. Loud accessories are in, and you can take the most basic outfit nowadays and turn it into something that is much more amusing based on how you style it. There is endless diversity in accessories, enabling the direction and effectiveness of your style to be more unique and original.
We have chic sunglasses, loud luxury framed all over our bodies, belts being reinvented, gloves worn year-round, clips, jewels, and lace in our hair. We are mixing metals; extravagant rings and necklaces are being casually worn, and handbags ARE the outfit. It is the age of beautiful chaos in accessories.
Men are wearing watches and bracelets regularly, unique rings, custom chains, and hats of all shapes and sizes, and I love it. Every gender is holding a statement bag, and it is about time my man has a purse too. He has a beret on for our date, and I am not mad. It doesn’t need to be an accessory that will break the bank, just something that intensifies and exuberates our looks and likings.
The power of knowing how to accessorize will change your confidence – and turn heads. You will have an upgraded look if you put some time and money into your accessories. It enables people to show off their personalities and wear the colors and designs they like. There are millions of ways to showcase who you are through your accessories. It can be something so minimal or so extravagant, but it's all about how you want to enhance yourself and your outfit.
Take Coach in this year's NYFW, for example. They had all-black outfits with neon-colored glasses. There were stuffed animals on bags and shoes. They had bags as necklaces and screwdrivers, wrenches, and tools as earrings. This is how versatile accessories can be, and they can literally be anything and everything, showing your style and personality through it all.
Not only do they enhance an outfit, but you can match these extra pieces with the occasion, place, and how you're feeling. Accessories can match an occasion and setting because sneakers could be appropriate for a casual day but maybe not for your business meetings. A statement necklace has a place and a time, as well as your six-inch heels, but they showcase who you are and how you address yourself through fashion.
Personally, I am a jewelry fanatic, and depending on the day and attitude I’m feeling, I could pull out my black necklace with my black leather watch and my medieval-looking black ring to watch the vibe. Or, I might pull out my big, colorful pendant necklace with my purple and pink rings and my pink bag.
You don’t have to find people and copy their exact look; you can create something so original and unique that describes yourself with accessories, and it's such an overlooked and powerful tool in fashion. Because yeah, it’s so easy to look basic, but basic can be easily worn when you accessorize it in your own way.
You may see these Pinterest inspo photos and wonder how they look so damn good, but you just have to know how to pull it together and make it unique. They can make or break an outfit, and you can transform a simple look in your own creative and versatile way.
Take a scarf, for example; scarfs are not just scarfs nowadays. They are tops, headbands, belts, skirts, wrapped around bags, and thrown in any way possible. You can get so creative with one piece and make it be anything you want. People are putting anything anywhere.
Never let anyone call you basic, and let yourself feel free and creative to dress and accessorize in any way imaginable. 2025 is the year we are embracing our true selves on the outside and not being scared to show off what we find fashionable because it is how we represent and wear our identity. It is the year we are mixing a perfect amount of weird and iconic in our looks, and I am living for the chaos in accessorizing.
Strike Out,
Kaden Horn
Boca Raton
Kaden Horn is a content writer for Strike Magazine Boca. In her free time you can find her writing creative nonfictional and even fictional stories about every situation in her life. If you become acquainted with her, you might just end up being a character in her stories. She loves music, whether it’s making playlists or playing guitar. You can reach her by email at kaden.horn813@gmail.com, or her instagram @kadennhunter
