Kaftans and baja hoodies: the rise of stoner chic

The female characters in Clueless, the 1995 Alicia Silverstone film, are used to their place on fashion’s best-dressed lists. But the likes of Cher and Dion will need to make room for an unlikely addition to the gang. With stoner chic enjoying a moment in fashion, Travis Perkins, the long-haired skater with a penchant for Marvin the Martian, is the reference to drop this winter. See his most-tardies-in-the-class outfit for the full look.

The kind of clothes more likely to be found in a shop also selling all manner of cannabis paraphernalia, thinly disguised as something completely different, have been adopted by the kind of designers who wouldn’t be seen dead in Camden Lock, but like the laid-back look. See the adoption of the Baja hoodie, the blanket-type design first worn by stoners and surfers in California in the 70s. Michael Kors and Alexander Wang have made luxury ones that retail for four-figures. More in the realm of real life, long-sleeved T-shirts layered under short sleeves (see James Franco in Pineapple Express), longer hair on the likes of Jared Leto and plaid shirts are a bit of a uniform for young men now. Leto could be a posterboy for them – he recently went one further than a baja and wore a kaftan.