Retro comeback: These short coats will take you fashionably back to the Swinging Sixties this season

Space travel, hippies, pop art and the Beatles: the 1960s were a decade of cultural phenomena, icons and change. And to this day, this time is a very special one that the fashion world also looks back on fondly. In recent seasons, more and more trends from back then have found their way back into designers' collections, for example knee-high miniskirtsor large. Another classic will be added to the fall/winter season 2024/25: theShort coat in 60s style!

Fashion-conscious women wore in the 1960sin A-line and trapeze shape, which widened from the waist and usually ended above the knee - for this playful, girlish look that went perfectly with the mini skirts that were so popular at the time. Large, round buttons were also typical models back then, as were strong colors such as red oras well as strong black and white contrasts, inspired by the Pop Art movement and the Space Age. The coats were popular with style icons like Twiggy and Edie Sedgwick, as well as in the ultra-cool London mod subculture. Many decades later, for fall/winter 2024/25, labels like N°21 and Miu Miu also showed againShort coats in 60s styleon the catwalks.

TheFashion trendsome fashion houses have a completely swinging lookstyled, such as at Dior with a turtleneck sweater, mini skirt and boots, others reinterpreted it on the runways, such as Gucci: here ultra-tight microshorts were combined with yellow, which featured large logo buttons. At Miu Miu, rough ones belonged, leather gloves and thick wool tights for the outfit. And Marc Jacobs showed humorously exaggerated designs in which the models looked like delicate dolls and was also inspired by the cult decade for his current collection. The designer gave theShort coats in 60s stylea sparkling upgrade with large gemstones and shiny XL buttons.

The designs from Miu Miu, for example, are somewhat more reservedorcome along, and the classic cuts from designer Sandy Liang. Their looks on the catwalk almost looked as if they had come out of a film from the 1960s, with narrow, buttoned wool coats in a slight A-line and wide belts. What most shows had in common for this season: Among the short onesRetro coatsThe models' legs mostly remained bare, a miniskirt flashed here and there, and most labels combined knee-high boots or bootsin addition. TheFashion trend60s style icon Twiggy would certainly also like it.