Are coquette bows foidslop?
The coquette trend, where small pink ribbons ended up on hair, shoes, phone cases and at least one croissant.
The coquette look is pink, lace, pearls and ribbon, and the ribbon got out of hand. Starting around 2023 people were tying small bows onto everything they owned, including bedposts, Christmas trees, water bottles and dogs. Someone put one on a croissant and it got a lot of likes.
Fashion writers have been predicting the end of it for two years. It hasn't ended yet. If anything the bows have just gotten smaller and moved onto more things.
Coquette is French for a flirt, and the aesthetic takes a lot from old-fashioned girlishness: lace, ballet flats, slip dresses, pearls and pink. Online it's often linked to Lana Del Rey's early music and Sofia Coppola films like Marie Antoinette. It grew on TikTok and Tumblr-style mood boards, and designers who'd been putting bows on clothes for years, like Sandy Liang, suddenly found themselves at the center of it.
The bow trend peaked in 2024, when tying a ribbon on something became its own genre of video. It also drew criticism, since some of the older coquette imagery borrowed from Lolita and the way that book has been romanticized online. Most of the people tying bows on their water bottles weren't thinking about any of that, but it's part of why the word gets used with a bit of side-eye.
Yes, because
- Bows got tied to food
- It has a name, a color and a Sofia Coppola reference
- The bows don't do anything except look nice
No, because
- People have been wearing bows for a few hundred years
- Some of it does look good, if we're being honest
- A bow on a present has never made anyone call the present slop
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