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Attention ancient users of the Internet—this includes you, too, Gen Z and millennial online dwellers: Preppy no longer means what you probably think it means. If you thought it still looked like ...

While emo, Bohemian, and Y2K trends took center stage in the 2000s, the youngest generation is now taking trends into their own hands through cottage core, preppy styles, and E-girl energy.

Lisa Birnbach has seen this all before. Dries van Noten spring 2024. But what does preppy style signify now? And how did an aesthetic that once felt niche and exclusionary take over the world?