Nostalgia is everywhere, and it’s coming for our personal styles. We’ve revisited the 80s and 90s, Y2K and 2016. Now we’re entering the era of hyper-individualism—digging into our own pasts to unearth every idiosyncrasy, grainy film photo, and old shoebox under the bed.

Wardrobes boast a past life and homes become living archives, filled with heirloom objects and walls that whisper stories—things with real staying power. Everyone’s itching to open the time capsule in hopes of finding a treasure trove of meaning.

Offline is the new online, and defining your life by means of time, effort, and authorship is the new status symbol. People are craving the return to more tactile, traditional mediums: film photography, collage, watercolor, and magazines as tools for capturing the human experience and curating with intention.

The analog shift is showing up in the ways in which we source inspiration, too. Cultural displays of art—visiting museums, meeting at the theater, flipping through books, and even conversing over coffee—will replace endless scrolls on Pinterest and social media outlets, as we seek an escape from the slop and the clutter.

Can you taste it? Can you feel it? It’s a real feast for the senses out there. Paper grain, pencil lead, fabric, wood, shadows, and imperfections. These types of sensory details are traces of the human touch, signaling care, craft, and connection and making our digital world come alive.

Like an old song or a signature scent, these materials have the power to stir a visceral response that transports us elsewhere. Whether through our homes, our accessories, or the content we consume, texture will become a tool for storytelling, where what you feel matters as much as what you see.

Like the swing of a pendulum, the TikTok-ification of everything is pushing culture in the opposite direction. People are starting to crave the drama and artistry of photography that was, like most exceptionally creative things, the product of limitations: a roll of film with limited exposures and a costly fee for developing it.

Expect to see the return of editorial framing—considered lighting, negative space, and compositions that feel like art. Fewer images with a stronger POV. The next generation of moms, nostalgic for the portraiture of their own childhood and stretched for time, will look to professional photographers to capture the essence of their family. They will desire the authorship of a few display-worthy photos over the convenience of one hundred messy ones.

Everyone is feeling it: the earthy tones that have permeated our feeds, our furniture, and our fashion staples need some cooling off. It turns out, a splash of blue makes mocha and espresso extra-decadent.

If that blue hue just feels right, there’s a reason why. Whether denim, sky, cobalt or powder, the color has the power to wash over us and leave behind feelings of calmness and stability. When grounding colors like rich brown and oxblood need a temperature check, blue cools things down in all the most comforting ways.