Style and fashion trend predictions for 2025 we saw on the Celtics’ New Year’s Eve game runway

As the Celtics closed out 2024 with a morale boosting win over the Toronto Raptors, 71-125, Derrick White, Al Horford, Jaylen Brown, and Jayson Tatum offered a glimpse of what’s next in fashion. From bright yellows to bold maximalism and personal statements, the New Year’s Eve pregame fits reflected emerging trends for 2025 that blend individuality and forward-thinking style.

Seen on: Derrick White wearing butter yellow Nikes and Al Horford wearing Helmut Lang in a bright active yellow.

Fashionistas may have had enough of the minimalist neutrality of the clean girl, quiet luxury aesthetic, opting to hang up the blacks, greys, and browns and bust out the bright colors. 

Trendspotters and data from the Heuritech Spring/Summer 2025 have reported seeing yellow break through on spring and fall runways. Expect to see more yellow in the home, from decor to walls, and everyday wardrobes in a variety of shades like butter, 24K gold, pastel, and a version that resembles the city jersey signature Action Green. 

Seen on: Jaylen Brown sporting branded jacket and metallic fashion sneakers.

Not so much a trend, especially in this era of fleeting microtrends, but more so a philosophy. Maximalism means more is more, whether that’s colors, patterns, fabrics, cuts, or genres. It’s the opposite of demure. It’s flashy, rich, indulgent, and can be applied to fashion, art, interior design, even the culinary sphere.

The Pinterest Predicts 2025 trend report included maximalism among its predictions for next year, describing it as “brilliantly bold patterns, eclectic prints and delightful textures in all colors of the rainbow,” and forecasted a more than two hundred percent increase in search volume on the term “eclectic maximalism.”

Jaylen Brown showcased a bit of this by mixing metallic silver kicks with a purple and yellow moto-style jacket prominently promoting his 7uice Foundation, potentially teasing more branded merchandise, and unequivocally blending his interests in justice and fashion. Typically cloaked in black and nearly exclusively offering black apparel for his luxury performance clothing line, delight in a break from Brown’s usual neutrals. 

Seen on: Jayson Tatum wearing a graphic tee depicting a music legend.

Emily Sundberg wrote in her Feed Me newsletter, foretelling “professional athletes as portals into shared American humanity.”

Like maximalism, personality is not a fashion trend — it is an ethos and, for many, an antidote to brain rot, internet slop, artificial intelligence, and the sameness of rubber stamped trends and copy-and-paste influencers. 

“The desire to express one’s individuality through clothes and accessories is evergreen, but the recent focus on personal style may be partly the result of algorithms that can recycle the same outfits on our social media feeds ad nauseam. As it intensifies, expect more people to be seeking out those special items that are uniquely them,” Marie Solis, New York Times style editor offered for its 12 Predictions for Life in 2025.

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