I am surprised that Kaia Gerber did not wear a boho string necklace while browsing for root vegetables and spiritual sustenance at the farmers market last weekend, because just about every other element of her outfit screamed “boho chic.”
The delicate patchwork skirt, the velveteen Mary Jane flats, the lace-trimmed button-up…it was as though Gerber were starring in a feel-good movie about a disenfranchised careerist who journeys across the world in an attempt to “reconnect.”
That is, of course, the plot of Eat, Pray, Love, a 2006 memoir that happened to be published at the same time that Sienna Miller was wearing coin belts and peasant skirts and rough-hewn turquoise rings.
The collective urge to go “off the grid” and start dressing like an ascendant yoga teacher was a cornerstone of mid-aughts pop culture, and it seems to be reentering the zeitgeist.
See: EmRata and her obsidian stone necklace, which she latticed around her neck on a bit of upcycled suede cord.
Jennifer Lawrence also wore a boho string necklace earlier this summer: an elliptical Elsa Peretti piece made from Japanese hardwood.
And there were also sun-beamed arm cuffs in Diesel’s spring-summer 2024 collection, multistrand necklaces at Chanel, Ralph Lauren, and Burberry, and toe rings at Rabanne and Miu Miu.
All of this speaks to a resurgent interest in the bohemian lifestyle, albeit one driven by social media and an algorithmic nostalgia.
This post was originally published in British Vogue.
