Many a self-respecting fashion journalist has lost hours waxing lyrical about even the vaguest sniff of a return to boho’s Noughties glory days
Coin belts are officially back in style. Fashion journalists have been eagerly awaiting the return of boho fashion, and it seems that Chemena Kamali at Chloé has finally granted the divisive decorative accessory a loop hole through which to wiggle.
In fact, the coin belt’s return has been a multi-pronged attack. Exhibit one: All Saints’s rerelease of its Kate-backed belt, which landed on my desk as summer came to a close. (The strip of leather nostalgia remains in its packaging.) Exhibit two: M&S’s collaboration with Sienna included, amongst the usual-suspect slips, broderie anglaise blouses and quilted jackets, a belt bespangled with silver coinage. Exhibit three: Vogue’s Julia Hobbs clipping some beloved metallic bijoux around her dress before dashing to a recent Dover Street Market event. Hobbs said that her family ribs her for still wearing the teenage trinket, but in the cold light of the office, she made the most convincing proposition for buckling up again.
Until, that is, exhibit four: the Miu Miu spring/summer 2025 show saw models, including Alexa Chung, Little Simz and Nicole Kidman Junior, walk the runway with multiple metallic strands laden with charms cinched around the brand’s requisite PE pants.
No small change was involved in the making of Mrs Prada’s mismatching clunky chains – some tightly wound like butchers’ curtains, others sprouting armour-like flowers. The Miu Miu muse is too cool to acknowledge the Gladiator-adjacent timing or Marks and Sparks’s affordable take on the nostalgic appendage (Miller’s high-street collab has been renewed for a second season). We know she’s messy, but now we understand what’s been laying dormant in the bottom of those over-stuffed Arcadie bags: hardware from a bygone decade that suddenly feels fresh during a transitional period in which quiet luxury is being trampled out by anything-goes childlike maximalism.
While Chloé girls will jangle their way through life with their looping logo belts and bracelet bags and antique bloomers, Team Miuccia throw their clinking numbers on over swimsuits in line with the hasty dressing that was more of a vibe than trad boho was during the recent show season. The coin belt 2.0 is less about floating serenely into a room with a whisper of Gypsy Water behind you, it’s about rushing around and using that chainmail as a kind of shield against modern-day life. Next season’s style diktat is weird and wonderful – all crumpled fabrics, gravity-defying hemlines and ’80s accents – so useless belts (see also: Chanel’s dainty double-C body chains and Ralph Lauren’s hardware-adorned ropes) are right at home in this quagmire of ideas.
Where Mrs Prada goes, the industry follows. See you for next season’s dispatch on the coin belt 3.0.
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