The Hyper-Feminine Fashion Styles Gen Z are Loving in 2025

If you’ve spent any time scrolling through Pinterest or Instagram in recent years, you’ll have noticed a dreamy wave of hyper-feminine fashion styles taking over your Feed. From soft pastels, to delicate lace and dainty bows, feminine fashion is having a major moment online. Trends like balletcore, coquette core, and other soft girl aesthetics are dominating mood boards and capturing the heart of fashion lovers, who want a touch of elegance in their wardrobes.

Whether it’s Sabrina Carpenter leading the babydoll dress movement, or Nara Smith donning her puff-sleeve gowns in her famous kitchen set up, these feminine fashion trends go beyond just clothing, they inspire new, cultural moments and allow us to reminisce on our girlhood from the 2000s. Fashion is no longer only about what you wear, it’s about the story you tell alongside it. 

Read on as we spotlight the feminine fashion styles taking over the internet and how to style them!

FEMININE FASHION TRENDS ADORNING OUR SOCIAL FEEDS

Balletcore

Inspired by both the performance costumes and everyday wear of ballerinas, balletcore encapsulates the overall elegance and grace associated with the dance form. Featuring elements of tulle skirts, leggings, ballet flats, cardigans, and soft satin tops. Think soft feminine silhouettes in pastel colours and delicate hues, the exact aesthetic that Nadine pulls off so effortlessly on her Instagram account.

Coquettecore 

Deriving from the french word coquette, meaning flirtatious, this feminine fashion trend is spearheaded by florals, bows, and frills synonymous with the Victorian, Edwardian, Regency, and Rococo aesthetics. Think fashion icons such as Marie Antoinette and Vivienne Westwood, Coquettecore blends soft patterns with bold statement pieces, perfectly-styled by influencers like Kimberly on Instagram.

Barbiecore

It’s Barbie’s world and we’re just living in it. This is a girly, mainstream feminine fashion aesthetic, rooted in the lifestyle and wardrobe of the Mattel doll. It encompasses all things pink, blonde, plastic, form-fitting and glamorous, elements synonymous with the late 90s/2000s Barbie. 

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Cottagecore

Identified by idyllic rural or woodsy settings, shabby-chic interiors, and prairie dresses, cottagecore is rooted in romanticising the mundane. Though initially criticised in the early 2010s for oversimplifying and white washing a domestic, agricultural lifestyle, cottagecore has since come leaps and bounds in diversifying its reach and adoption. Since catching up with the real world, we often see this feminine fashion style perfectly styled by influencers like Belle over on Instagram.

Fairycore

When soft mythology meets a natural aesthetic, it creates the fairycore style. Featuring elfin details, wings, butterflies, shimmery makeup, long braids, flower crowns and corsets, this feminine fashion trend perfectly encompasses springtime vibes through soft pastels and inspiration drawn from paintings. Known as a DIY trend also, fairycore fashion is always welcome on our feeds!

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Scandi Style

The Scandi fashion style is taken from Norway, Finland, and Sweden and includes layering boxy and oversized cuts, where modern and comfortable is the desired look. Rather than skin-tight clothing, Scandinavians tend to opt for O-shaped coats, oversized jumpers, and chunky shoes. Nothing screams bold, feminine fashion more than exuding confidence in an outfit that doesn’t make you feel like you need a Hermès bag and restrictive diet to pull something off.

Boho Chic

Boho Chic is a feminine fashion style that draws on various bohemian and hippie fashion influences, associated with the likes of Kate Moss and Sienna Miller in late 2005. More than just a fashion style, however, Boho Chic is all about embracing a lifestyle characterised by an unconventional and free-spirited essence. Think organic, natural materials and light, flowing fabrics to create maxi skirts, shift dresses, and long-layering necklaces, that which Michaela Haban showcases perfectly over on Instagram.

Gingham

Gingham really is that girl. When we think of summer dressing, the first pattern that comes to mind is Gingham. From Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz to Audrey Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story, this feminine fashion style presents the rare advantages of being both fashionable, yet simple; youthful, yet sophisticated. 

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