Lagenlook

{{Short description|Fashion style}}

Lagenlook is a style of layered clothing based on various new romantic and boho-chic influences, primarily but not exclusively worn by women.{{Cite book |last=Kane |first=Hannah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yJ6jEAAAQBAJ&dq=lagenlook&pg=RA1-PT244 |title=The Style Thesaurus: A Definitive, Gender-Neutral Guide to the Meaning of Style and an Essential Wardrobe Companion for All Fashion Lovers |publisher=Quercus Publishing |year=2023 |isbn=978-1-5294-2188-0 |location=London |publication-date=2023 |pages=183 |language=en |quote=}} It is an unadapted borrowing or loanword from German, and means "layered look."{{Cite news |last=Schmidt |first=Ingrid |title=You've Seen the Looks, Now Hear the Designers' Stories |work=The Los Angeles Times |pages=P6}} It was particularly popular in the early 2010s, but has been a style of note since at least the 1960s.{{Cite news |last=Chao |first=Mary |date=11 July 2011 |title=The Daily Dose: ROCBlog of the Day |work=Democrat and Chronicle |pages=17}} Although it displays clear gothic fashion influences, it is not considered a gothic style. German media and cultural historian Ricarda Strobel classifies it as a look of the German 1990s.{{Citation |last=Strobel |first=Ricarda |title=Die neue Republik stylt sich: Architektur, Design und Mode |date=2010-01-01 |work=Die Kultur der 90er Jahre |pages=287–307 |url=https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846749838_018 |access-date=2025-05-14 |publisher=Brill {{!}} Fink |doi=10.30965/9783846749838_018 |isbn=978-3-8467-4983-8|url-access=subscription }} The style was also echoed in a photographic exhibition in Austria in 2020 by Romana Hagyo and Silke Maier-Gamauf, "Abrieb und Lagenlook."{{Cite journal |last1=Hagyo |first1=Romana |last2=Maier-Gamauf |first2=Silke |date=2024-05-01 |title=Hering und die Fluse: falten, ziehen, bewegen, umkreisen und betrachten |url=https://doi.org/10.1515/fs-2024-0011 |journal=Feministische studien |language=German |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=122–135 |doi=10.1515/fs-2024-0011 |issn=2365-9920|url-access=subscription }} University of Seigen professor of media and culture studies Maren Lickhardt noted it in the Spring/Summer 2022 Dolce & Gabbana runway show, echoing Y2K fashion.{{Cite journal |last=Lickhardt |first=Maren |date=2022-10-01 |title=Das Post-Pandemische Mode-Abc |url=https://www.degruyterbrill.com:443/document/doi/10.14361/pop-2022-110207/html |journal=POP |language=de |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=48–54 |doi=10.14361/pop-2022-110207 |issn=2198-0322|url-access=subscription }} Two fashion journalists, Gudrun Allstädt and Elke Dieterich, cited a return of Lagenlook in 2017 in the German clothing magazine Textilwirtschaft, an industry publication with a broader readership similar to Women's Wear Daily.{{Cite journal |last1=Allstädt |first1=Gudrun |last2=Dieterich |first2=Elke |date=19 October 2017 |title=Die Top Tops: Herbst-Hoch für Strick. Pullis prägen das Geschäft. Mit neuer Power: dank kräftiger Farben, Dekoration und Details. Dazu die Bluse: einerseits Statement-Teil, andererseits der frische Part im Lagenlook. |journal=Textilwirtschaft |language=German |issue=42 |pages=48–59 |issn=0040-487X }}Elke Dieterich, “Lagenlook für alle Lebenslagen,” Textilwirtschaft, January 14, 2016, no. 2B: 88.C. W., “Subtiler Lagenlook bei Nile Clothing,” Textilwirtschaft, January 20, 2011, no. 3: 152.Silke Emig, “Alle Wetter, Dea,” Textilwirtschaft, December 19, 2024, no. 51: 59.