CThese are questions that any person who grew up in the ’90s can answer without hesitation: team Dylan or team Brandon? Kelly or Brenda? Today that Beverly Hills, 90210 returns with the complete seasons on Sky Italia, the rewatch becomes an excuse to dust off 90s fashion and copy some style tricks from the protagonists of the series.
Also thanks to the return ofminimal aesthetics relaunched by Love Story and its protagonists Carolyn Bessette And John Kennedy, Spring 2026 will be characterized by the legendary Nineties. Between jeans, crop tops and blazers, here are the trends that we still wear today, to be rediscovered simply by pressing play.
Minimal 90s: the power of basics
Even before minimal became a conscious trend, it was already the daily language of Brenda and Kelly. Just go back to the episodes set at West Beverly High: white t-shirts stuck in high waisted jeans, slip dress essentials for the holidays, cardigan thin for the day. An aesthetic that runs through the entire series, from the school corridors to the evenings at the Peach Pit, where the look always remains simple but recognisable. It’s no coincidence: even back then the characters built outfits based on a few key items, often repeated and reinterpreted. Today, on the Spring-Summer 2026 catwalks, that minimalism returns identically.
Denim mania. (Getty Images)
Denim culture: the Beverly Hills uniform
If there is one boss that runs through all the seasons of the series it is the denim. Brenda wears it in the most everyday moments, Donna makes it more playful, Kelly wears it in a cleaner version. High-waisted jeans, shorts cut, jackets coordinates: total denim was already a precise code, often seen in school corridors or in the most iconic scenes between friends. Today it comes back identical, but with a more sophisticated twist: darker washes and more studied combinations, with flip-flop sandals and unbuttoned shirts to recreate an easy-chic look.
The cast of Beverly Hills, 90210. (Photo by mikel roberts/Sygma via Getty Images)
Stealing from the men’s closet, like Brenda
Among the characters, Brenda it is perhaps the one that has played the most with the mix&match between feminine and masculine style. Oversized shirts, blazers with important shoulders, ties worn nonchalantly: an aesthetic that broke the mold without ever feeling forced. In some episodes, especially in the first seasons, this approach becomes the character’s visual signature. As well as for the it-girls this season, where soft suits, trousers with relaxed volumes And abundant proportions they are everywhere. The secret to achieving decidedly chic looks like Brenda’s is to make them look natural, even when they required hours of study.
Circa 1995, the minimal 90s looks of the cast of Beverly Hills, 90210. (Photo by Fox Broadcasting/Getty Images)
Dare with style
Donna and Valerie were doing it before it became a style statement. Tops that resemble bras, transparent fabrics, see-through games: the details that in the series often accompany more daring moments or transformations of the characters, today are the same ones used by the Maisons to add a little spice to their collections. The one later nicknamed “lingerie dressing”that is, clothes that seem designed for the bedroom but worn in the city, is a constant in the SS 2026 collections, including visible bralettes, lace sleep dresses and silk culottes.
The lesson to be learned? Everything comes back
Looking at some scenes, the doubt arises that fashion never really outgrew the ’90s aesthetic. Choker, headband, baggy jeans, shirts with ruffles: the key elements of the seasons of the series are the same ones that resurface today in the wardrobes of celebrities and style enthusiasts.
If we still feel so much nostalgia for these television products, so much so that we want to see them again and bring them back into circulation after so many years, it is also because the garments and clothing of that period remain current and still desirable.
The rewatch, then, also becomes a way to watch TV series in search of style inspiration. Certain that what was once liked can always return.
