What is the right outfit of the summer 2025? The answer gives us (again) the OC

“California, here we how”. Abandon yourself to rewatch Of The OC is a Guilty pleasure that sooner or later you have to give up. Surfing, dramas, parties, villas, teenage sky e deluxe of Newport Beach to be contemplated on first videos remembering the after-school on Italy 1. Of course, More than twenty years have passed since the teen-drama by Josh Schwartz was launched for the first time on the small screen – 2003 in the United States, 2004 in Italy – and as Hollie Richarson points out in an article on The Guardian It is not that the plot has aged very well. Zero inclusion, zero diversity, our beloved Seth Cohen (Adam Brody) which today could easily be considered a “softboy»(ouch!). Still, a reason why it still makes sense to see it today is. In addition to Death Cab for Cutie, ça va sans sayand to modest mouse and the killers, who play as unknown means (as they actually were) to the Bait Shop. “MM, Whatcha Say? “ The clothes.

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Pinocchietto jeans, strati necklaces, dancers, top with American neckline, pleated miniskirts. Not to mention the Chanel bags sported by Marissa Cooper among the corridors of the Harbor high school instead of the backpack (be never). That, for the record, in the first episodes are all false, then replaced with the originals once the success of the series once exploded, ergo theappeal for maison. In this regard, how can we forget the Chanel flowering dress in the third season: the first appearance couture to a television school dance. But among others Fashion Moments noteworthy we find the notorious glittered mini -either of Missoni, the Winter Dance Dress by Marc Jacobs worn by Summer, rather than the school uniform homage to Britney Spears.

Summer and Marissa with the Chanel dress couture in The OC.

We are always in theme revival Y2k, clear. But among the most stylish TV series that were aired in the zero years, there is a thin difference here. Contrary to Sex and the City (first, 1998-2004) e Gossip Girl (Then, 2007-2012), The wardrobe of the girls of Orange County is a mess. Wrong sizes, chromatic contrasts with perforated horny, meaningless combinations. And for this reason it seems to come out straight from a moodboard Pinterest of summer 2025. Far from the New York patina, it’s Y2k à la West Coast. Call it Messycall it boho-orientedcall it Effortless-Cool, Ugly-Cool. The fact is that the Marc Jacobs worn at the cocktail party by the poolside will never remain immaculate as that of Blair Waldorf. It will always be tightened by a strident shoe, from a brawl to the pier, from the back seat of a steering wheel. Here, therefore, is a handful of outfits The OC inspired, that today seem to do precisely for us.

Nobody like Marissa – played by the wonderful Mischa Burton – has made the band’s top combo and slightly flared jeans on the bottom the passepartout evergreen spring-summer. A leitmotiv interpreted in all sauces and inevitably completed by a pair of pointed dancers, now on top of ours Wishlist. Even if at the time the choice was dictated by major forces, he tells Vogue The costume designer of the first season Alexandra Welker: Burton was the highest of the clique and resorting to low shoes was the only solution to bring it back into the frame.

Mischa Burton in The OC

A minidress above a pair of Skinny Jeans It has never been a logical choice. But was it 2004 and if Marissa and Summer did it, could you really deprive you to associate the satin with the discolored denim? Which then, it was layering? Or was it confusion? Era The OCand today we cannot help but revisit it. Hashtag skousers.

Ryan and Marissa in The OC

A match at Kate Moss before Kate Moss. Shorts or skirts, as long as micro, with knee boots. Bonus: the vintage vest. Well, who if not Marissa Cooper could lay the foundations of the uniform from festival (but also from it-girl tormented) in a sunny therapeutic shopping afternoon? Pull back today is impossible: from Charli XCX to the neighbor.

You say Skinny Scarf, And it is immediately Olivia Wilde, aka Alex in the series. A item that the bartender punk with a tender heart, theeyeliner Marked, the outfits inspired by Gwen Stefani, rarely did not bring around the neck combined with a remarkable repertoire of miniature graphic t-shirts. If he had already reappeared on the spring-summer 2024 catwalks, the thin scarf is now definitely experiencing his revenge. From “useless” to Mai without.

Olivia Wilde in The OC

Summer Roberts (Rachel Bilson) taught us that the energy from “Bitchy with taste»It is also transmitted with accessories. Top animalier? The base. Even better if combined with a belt left hanging out of passers -by. A constant in Mix & Mismatch.

Summer in The OC

If we should indicate a pattern-2025 key now there would be no doubt: Polka Dots. And look a little The OC It can prove to be an inexhaustible strong of inspiration on this front. Among the many, many, pallini looks, we mention the blue and white one worn by Coop at the beginning of the first season. Obviously Marc Jacobs signed. And then that of Sum copied by Kaia Gerber.

Luke and Marissa.

Summer.

Kaia Gerber.

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And if it is pink, then it is powdered pink, curled, with ruffles. Marissa wore some of the dresses Candy Pink more romantic and tragic than the Teen TV. Yes, just the same nuance that we have seen on all the catwalks that Ariana Grande likes so much. Here are our favorites.

Marissa.

Marissa.

One shirt? Impossible. In The OC Everyone stratifies everything: t-shirts, sweatshirts, cardigans. Emotions. A visual sandwich in which any ingredient is allowed and granted. The equation to be applied this summer? The multiplication of the contrast tank top.