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The Most Googled Vintage Items of 2025 Were…Quite Eclectic

PLUS: Another original Hermes Birkin bag sells for 2.86 million dollars

INTERVIEW: KATE MOSS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Different Class - PULP New Album

2. Table of Contents

3-4. The Most Googled Vintage Items of 2025 Were…Quite Eclectic

5-6. Another original Hermes Birkin bag sells for 2.86 million dollars

7-8. Interview

9-10. Fashion Shopping Spread

The Most Googled Vintage Items of 2025 Were…Quite Eclectic

BY CHRISTIAN ALLAIRE

Looking back, 2025 was certainly a hot year for vintage fashion.

On the red carpets, many celebrities embraced archival runway looks (see some of the best moments here), proving that a throwback design can feel just as fresh and modern today. Even off-duty, stars—from Kendall Jenner to Tyla—have incorporated retro finds into their more casual wardrobes, too. And it seems like they are not the only ones: according to Google’s annual Year in Search trends, one of the most popular queries of 2025 was for vintage clothing items. And the search engine’s list of top 10 most Googled items is…certainly eclectic.

The list of queried vintage items takes into account notable spikes in Google traffic over a sustained period, these last 12 months. So what exactly made the cut? The mishmashed list reads as follows: Oakley hoodies, Red Kap pants, Mötley Crüe t-shirts, mock neck sweatshirts, Eagles jackets, Hollister jackets, Miss Me Jeans, Eagles sweatshirts, Fox Racing hoodies, and the most broad search of them all, simply vintage “shorts.”

While these may all be heavily sought-after items for 2025, the list is clearly heavy on 1990s and 2000s nostalgia. Brands like Oakley and Fox Racing ruled the grunge era of the ’90s, while fur-trimmed Hollister jackets and bootcut Miss Me jeans dominated the saucy naughties. If you’re thinking to yourself, ‘how random that people are searching and shopping for these again,’ consider that it does make sense that such decade-defining pieces would have a 2025 comeback. Designers, after all, have been relentlessly obsessed with harking back to both of these influential eras as of late. Take the Gucci pre-fall collection released just today: The racing jackets and

bootcut jeans could have easily come out in 2006 as much as 2026. Judging by the new Google searches, though, it seems consumers now want the real vintage thing versus more inspired takes. They’re searching for the hot staples that actually defined these time periods. Still, there are some real wild cards in there. Mötley Crüe tees, for one, is quite a specific garment, though the band fits right in with the enduring craze for vintage rock tees. The Red Kap pants could be a result of the burgeoning workwear trend. Eagles sweatshirts and jackets speak to a more sporty sensibility on the 2025 hot list—maybe that is the result of the Taylor Swift-Kansas City Chiefs effect.

All of this to say: Many of the pieces that were among the most Googled vintage searches this year were not on our 2025 bingo card. But I guess that is the fun of shopping secondhand. You can always get weird and wildly unexpected with it. Is it time to dig out my Hollister jacket from high school circa 2007? According to Google, yes, I should.

December 4, 2025

Another original Hermes Birkin bag sells for 2.86 million dollars

By Rachel Douglass

A Hermes handbag that once belonged to Jane Birkin was sold for 2.86 million dollars (2.45 million euros) at auction in Abu Dhabi on Friday, just months after the record-breaking sale of her first bag from the French brand, Sotheby’s said Tuesday.

Hermes first created the design for the British singer and actress in 1984 and it has gone on to become a modern and highly prized classic, sought by fashionistas the world over.

The first prototype was sold for 8.58 million euros (10 million dollars) at a Sotheby’s auction in Paris in July, smashing previous price records for a handbag.

The one sold on Friday was a “Birkin Voyageur”, which was gifted to the former wife of French singing legend Serge Gainsbourg in 2003.

The final sale price was around six times times higher than the estimated price range of 230,000-430,000 dollars given before the sale.

“Jane Birkin’s handbag legacy continues to captivate collectors,” Sotheby’s said in a statement sent to AFP, adding that bidding took place over 11 minutes between six collectors.

The new owner was a phone buyer and has not been identified.

The handbag was one of four owned by the late

celebrity, who used to sell them to raise money for charitable causes.

It has a handwritten inscription in French inside from Birkin that reads: “My Birkin bag, my globetrotting companion.”

A third Hermes bag owned by Birkin is set to go under the hammer on December 15 at the Hotel Drouot auction house in Paris.

It was entrusted by the late star to her friend and biographer Gabrielle Crawford, who is selling it to help fund the future Jane Birkin Foundation, Drouot said in a statement.

Produced in very limited numbers, the modern Birkin bag manufactured by Hermes has maintained an aura of exclusivity and is beloved by celebrities such as the Kardashians, Jennifer Lopez and Victoria Beckham. The most expensive fashion item ever sold at auction was a pair of ruby red slippers worn by actor Judy Garland from The Wizard of Oz in 1939, which sold for 32.5 million dollars in 2024 in Dallas, Texas, according to Sotheby’s.(AFP)

KATE MOSS

INTERVIEW: KATE MOSS

Supermodel, fashion pin-up and Pop culture icon: the second celebrity interviewed as part of our In Camera series was British model Kate Moss. Following the birth of her first child Lila Grace in September 2002 and in the first major interview of her career, Moss gave candid responses to over 100 questions from friends, fans and fashionistas worldwide. This interview was showcased online with a series of live stills updated throughout the course

Q. Kate Moss, we have invited you to participate in our series of interviews with major image-makers because you occupy the roles of both image and image-maker. Not only are you one of the most talked-about and desired women on earth, you rose to fame during a decade where fashion became a mainstream cultural concern. You are the face of a British youth movement shaped by the end of Thatcherism, dance culture and new technology. Does any of that make you happy?

Yes, it definitely makes me happy that I’m part of a period of such cultural change. However, I don’t think about me being a desired woman, or as being talked about, because that would make me paranoid.

Q. Before modelling, did you have any idea of what you’d like to do?

I knew I wanted to travel, because my Dad worked in the travel business and I knew I wanted to leave Croydon. I hadn’t even thought about what I wanted to do when I left school because I was only 14 when I started modelling.

Q. So Kate - I went through a long period of time where I thought it would never all work out. Wanting the dream to come true, then it changed and the dream became a reality. Have you ever experienced that? Please explain.

Oh, God, Marianne! I didn’t really have a dream where I thought ‘Oh, I want to be a star’. It kind of all rolled along and then suddenly, I was in the papers and it was all a bit of a shock. Now I’ve got the dream because I’ve got the family and I’m still working. That was my dream always.

Q. If clothing can be art, has there been one piece of apparel that you have worn which was a transcendent masterwork?

Galliano (it was a gypsy skirt with purple tulle with bells all over it and a fox jacket that was unbelievably amazing) in an Annie Leibovitz shoot for American Vogue that were definitely transcendent masterworks.

Q. Why do you think the media chose to pin the debate about body image on you when there are so many other small female celebrities?

It was just the time. It was a swing from more buxom girls like Cindy Crawford and people were shocked to see what they called a ‘waif’. What can you say? How many times can you say ‘I’m not anorexic’?

Q. You must have experienced just about everything in your career in fashion. How has your perception of the industry changed?

I don’t think it has, really. I don’t really do the shows: that’s really when you see the industry in its full glory. I work with people more on a one-to-one basis, and therefore see it less as an industry.

Q. Who are the 5 most powerful people in the fashion industry? Pao, Italy

Anna Wintour, Mario Testino, Bernard Arnault, Tom Ford and in his day, Steven Miesel could make or break a girl.

Q. Thank you for being so candid Kate, It’s been a pleasure interviewing you. Where are you off to now?

Going for dinner!

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