the most desired dresses of spring 2023 have a hood

Part Little Red Riding Hood, part creatures of the night. Part fairies and part witches. Spring/Summer 2023 fashion adds a touch of magic and mystery to the wardrobe: the must-have dress of the season is the hooded dressor hooded dress. An impactful garment, which immediately takes us back to the eighties or makes us travel elsewhere, to fantastic lands where we feel like princesses on the run, brigands or wood nymphs. From Versace to Schiaparellifrom Ferragamo to Saint Laurentthe trend from the catwalks conquers the red carpets and immediately makes us feel like divas for a night.

The hooded dress trend for spring 2023

The trend of hooded dresses comes straight from the Eighties: how can we forget a statuary Grace Jones swathed in a hooded dress of Azzedine Alaïa? Almost forty years later, Alaïa reintroduces hooded dresses on the catwalk with new lines but with the same spirit, sensual and gritty. Schiaparelli offers it in a purple version, like a peplos or a cloak in which to take refuge.

Saint Laurent made it a mainstay of the Spring/Summer 2023 collection, proposing woven styles to be worn with long leather trench coats with structured shoulders and sunglasses, anticipating the eighties revival of the last show. All the models proposed on the catwalk focus on sensuality: long, slippery models, enhanced by cut-out cuts. Versace focus on total black, Albert Ferretti on bright colors such as rusty orange.

The hooded dress conquers the stars

The trend has now exploded and it is only a matter of time that it also explodes on social networks. Kate Moss was the pioneer, with a transparent Saint Laurent dress, closely followed by Jenna Ortega at the Paris fashion shows. The trend has also conquered Beyoncé And Bella Hadidbut the hooded dress entered the collective imagination with the video of Flowers, in which Miley Cyrus wears a gold ‘revenge suit’. Needless to say, caparisoned with hood and glasses.

If the stars like this dress so much it is because it is stardom in its purest form: the covered head is a symbol full of charm and contradictions, which fashion reinvents by making it mischievous. No longer a symbol of submission but empowerment: these dresses cover the head but enhance the body. Making us dream.