All products featured on GRAZIA are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, GRAZIA may earn an affiliate commission.
The Spring/Summer 2023 season of New York Fashion Week may be over, but the city’s style savants aren’t done with ushering in new trends for the months ahead.
The latest trend to emerge from Manhattan’s sartorial stewards isn’t one that reflected the ’90s minimalism explored on the runways, but rather one that unexpectedly harks back to the Y2K reign that transpired post-pandemic.
Ladies and gentlemen, get ready for an embellished jean spring.
Within the span of a week, both Taylor Swift and Katie Holmes departed from their all-American blue wash denim and opted for a bejewelled pair of jeans adorned with sequin patterns.
Coincidence? We think not.
Given that these style moments coincided with the annual Coachella weekend, we wonder if Holmes and Swift are purely trying to keep the festival spirit alive and well over 2,000 miles away.
The 33-year-old musician first tipped her toe into the world of embellished jeans by opting for a pair for a momentous occasion: her first public outing since her break-up with actor, Joe Alwyn.
The Midnights singer isn’t one to do things in halves, with her Area denim jeans embellished with a sequin butterfly motif just another instance of Swift being two steps ahead in leaving crumb-like clues for her fans to unravel.
As TikTok theorists pointed out, the feature of the butterfly was a poignant hint at how Swift felt after the breakup, with the insect symbolic of rebirth and transformation.
Simply put: Swift and her embellished jeans proved she could still make the whole place shimmer. Almost a week later, Holmes stepped out in a pair of two-toned 3.1 Phillip Lim jeans, cutting a casual, yet effortlessly chic figure with the jeans adorned in a star and snowflake-like pattern.
The winter motif is an interesting choice considering that New Yorkers were in the midst of a heat wave, but perhaps Holmes’ is paying homage to the jeans that sent social media into a tailspin: her iconic dress-over-jeans combination from the 2022 Jingle Bell Ball.
If we were to glean anything from this unanticipated style comeback, it’s that this gleaming style will be taking over the streets, proving that denim can and indeed is still bejeweled.
Shop the key shimmering pieces below:
AREA Mussel Flower jeans, $795. Shop Now
AREA Crystal Slit straight-leg jeans, $795. SHOP NOW
ISABEL MARANT Nadegeil embellished jeans, $894. SHOP NOW
ROTATE sequin-embellished jeans, $276. SHOP NOW
