Menswear Trends To Invest In For 2025

This isn’t just about wearing your suit and tie and calling it a day. Corpcore is far more about taking the dress codes that are familiar to the office-goer and giving them a dose of the attitudes and silhouettes that have become familiar from more casualwear-driven trends. Picture American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman, but wearing the exaggerated silhouette of a Balenciaga suit, with its wide shoulders and heel-bitingly long trousers — elegantly made clothes but bristling with unorthodox proportions and more impactful design.

Corpcore is about taking the ordinary — dare we say, sometimes dull — clothing that has been worn at desks for decades, and making it interesting enough to turn heads in the street. Accessories take a central focus for this trend, with the oft-maligned necktie being a staple signifying piece for the style — and a perfect opportunity to take a mundane item and give it a new lease of style by opting for a more daring pattern or print. Briefcase-like bags, delivered from purveyors of luxury leather goods like Bottega Veneta, take the place of sling bags or totes, and longer-length wraparound scarves play off the structure of oversized coats and blazers.

In line with the return to a slightly formal leaning air comes a more subdued palette — one that relies on earthy tones as its bedrock. While statement colors still appear — such as bold, bright reds and cobalt blues — they’re positioned against softer tones of teal, grey-beige, and brown, making the more saturated pieces stand out but not creating a harsh two-tone against stark white or black.

We’re also seeing muted monochromatic looks come through, eschewing the statement in favor of a more reserved and subtle look that still can hold attention through its uniformity.

After what seems like an endless decade of being fully sneaker-focused, the trend pendulum has been swinging away from chunky, bright, and branded to a decidedly more low-key silhouette of shoe. A good entry point to embracing this trend would be something as simple as a loafer — a tried and true staple of men's dressing that occupies that difficult smart casual space well, looking as at home with light-washed denim as it does with a pair of drapey wool pants.

An emerging style that we think is something worth paying attention to — especially for warmer months — is a very simple slipper style. Brands like Lemaire, Prada, and The Row have all embraced this shape, which feels like a successor to the mule explosion that saw Birkenstock and UGG take center stage over the past few years. A slipper shape is altogether more refined and sleek, speaking to a larger feeling of menswear entering a ‘grown-up’ era.

Call this the Paul Mescal effect, or call it a rebellion against last summer’s jort supremacy, but in 2025, shorts are getting short. 5-inch inseams (and higher, if you dare) can be spotted in almost every upcoming menswear collection, often in more luxurious construction reminiscent of suit pants instead of something sportier that you might have spotted on a certain Gladiator II actor.

This more thigh-happy style of shorts allows you to play with your outfit proportions more easily — think juxtaposing a short pair of shorts with a larger fitting, billowy shirt and draping jacket. Another standout benefit of shortening your inseam is that, in general, shorter shorts give the illusion of longer legs and more height, if that’s your bag.

A hallmark style of rockstars and the rebellious, menswear has been leather-clad for pretty much all its history — you need only look at any image of WWII pilots to see just how far back a good leather jacket can be found in modern times. But in 2025, we’re entering a more all-encompassing leather appreciation.

Where in the past you may have been used to leather being biker-jacket-thick, we’re now seeing much more buttery soft leather in more lightweight pieces like shorts and shirting, reinterpretations of workwear pieces usually found in canvas or wool, along with more significant outerwear in softer suede. Leather has always been a mainstay material for menswear, but its pervasiveness in 2025 has hit new heights.

Known for its association with lumberjacks and ‘90s grunge bands, plaid and gingham patterns are frequently popping up in the 2025 menswear collections. Taking a pattern known for its more rebellious appreciators and blending it with more elegant and well-crafted pieces can both dress up a more casual shirt and make more formal pieces feel wearable every day.

If you’re color-adverse, you’ll easily be able to find options in the aforementioned earth tones that can work as a neutral within your wardrobe.

The ‘blokecore’ trend — an aesthetic signified by utilizing sportswear items like football shirts and shorts mixed with more fashion-forward pieces — is a trend that had a huge swath of support in online spaces back in the second half of 2023. An organic trend that began on #menswear TikTok pages, the trend took hold due, in part, to its clear accessibility and ubiquity — football shirts and Adidas shorts are some of the more easy-to-come-by and affordable clothing around. Combine that with a football World Cup year, and it’s clear why the trend took hold so firmly.

Despite waning slightly in 2024, the designer reinterpretation we began to see via footwear collaborations like the Adidas x Wales Bonner Sambas is now in full swing, with football-inspired tops and footwear appearing throughout collections, worn with oversized denim and delivered in more luxurious fabrications. Couple this with a burgeoning resurgence in a similarly styled Britpop aesthetic fuelled by the reunion of Oasis means that lighter-washed denim — blended with sportswear and more casual styles of jackets, like an iconic parka — are all going to be seen in 2025.