TikTok Fashion Trends to Watch

2022 was the year that “core” fashion took over the internet. New sub-trends seemed to sweep the collective consciousness on a weekly basis, from balletcore to barbiecore. But the bright, kooky styles à la Portia of White Lotus are headed in a new direction in the new year. Looking forward to 2023 trends on TikTok, experts predict the fashion phenomenon will move in a darker and more chaotic direction.

“‘Sleaze’ is being used as an alternative to the ‘core’ suffix to indicate the subversion of an aesthetic,” says Agustina Panzoni, a fashion trend researcher who goes by @thealgorythm on TikTok. “Example: Twee turned into Tweeze by choosing darker color palettes and less polished styling.” Whether you participated in the Indie Sleaze era (is it too on the nose to call it Tumblrcore?), the punk, party-fueled aesthetic of the early aughts is back now. If it has yet to hit your For You Page (FYP), expect to see influencers start to stray from the colorful and comfy toward something edgier.

The beauty of TikTok is that, although it’s awash in original content, many influencers are speaking to one another—tapping in to rising ideas and making them their own. On TikTok, style is as much a personal expression as it is a response to larger trends—and that won’t disappear in 2023. “I love scrolling the FYP because it gets me in a very creative space mentally and I’ll be able to make my own spin on existing trends,” says Brittany Xavier, a longtime Instagram influencer who has amassed over five million followers on TikTok. Count on the algorithm to send plenty of inspiration your way in the new year, making it easy to not only spot It-items as they emerge, but to inspire you to embrace your personal style in a trend-forward way.

Ready for more? Read on for experts’ insight into the TikTok trends poised to gain momentum in 2023, and the pieces to invest in now before they blow up everywhere.