NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 20, 2026--
1stDibs, the leading marketplace for extraordinary design, has released its 2025 Luxury E-Commerce Report, drawing on unique data and insights from its global marketplace. The report unveils the defining trends of 1stDibs’ discerning audience across the following core luxury categories: Furniture & Lighting, Art, Watches & Jewelry, Handbags, and Fashion.
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“Twenty-five years into the new millennium, design lovers are showing nostalgia for creations dating back to the beginning of the 21st century, as evinced by the resurging popularity of Y2K fashion,” says Anthony Barzilay Freund, 1stDibs Editorial Director and Director of Fine Art. “Looking further back, design movements from the early 1900s — namely Art Deco, which was officially launched by a famed Paris exposition in 1925, and Art Nouveau — have seen an uptick of interest from 1stDibs shoppers. Also trending: Tiffany lighting, Old Master–inspired oil paintings and jewelry from such legacy brands as Tiffany & Co, Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels. These are just a few examples of the heritage pieces that collectors are turning to as they aim to bring richness and historical character to both their interiors and wardrobes.”
Key findings from the report include:
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2025-Defining Cross-Category Trends
Y2K and 2000s-Era Fashion Trends
The iconic 2000s-era and Y2K styles gained notable traction this year, with “Sex and the City clothing” topping fashion-related search terms, following the debut of And Just Like That final season. Carrie Bradshaw’s iconic Dior Newsprint Dress remained one of the most heavily viewed and favorited fashion listings on the site, underscoring the ongoing cultural pull of Sex and the City and the era it represents.
Further fashion staples from the 2000s experienced significant growth, with Louis Vuitton handbags, vintage Versace, and Roberto Cavalli all experiencing an uptick of interest. “Prada heels 2009” became the leading search term for shoes, spiking by 145% in Q3. Meanwhile, “Dior Saddle Bag” landed in the top-15 of all handbag searches, surging by 112% in Q1, while pink handbag orders grew 50% year-over-year.
The penchant for Y2K’s signature loud colors, patterns, and maximalist motifs wasn’t just limited to fashion. “Leopard couch” was among the top-40 seating-related search terms, and snake-themed jewelry and watches consistently ranked highly in searches and favorites.
Classical Glamour & Revivalism
Furniture, lighting, and art trends in 2025 revealed a strong appetite for the classical glamour of early and mid-20th century aesthetics. Shoppers favored pieces from the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements, with rich fabrics, ornate finishes, and bold colors driving engagement. Art Deco, celebrating its 100th year in 2025, saw particular spikes in demand, with “Art deco chandelier” placed in the top-30 lighting searches and searches jumping 99% in Q1. Picasso was the year’s top-selling artist, with searches spiking 54% year-over-year, whereas the top Art Deco sale of the year was a signed Albert Cheuret “Hérons” chandelier, circa 1925, which sold for $65,323.
Modern brands like Ralph Lauren that feature historical references and a sense of legacy in their work also proved popular this year. 1stDibs experienced a strong search demand for “Ralph Lauren” and specifically “Ralph Lauren furniture.” Across categories, collectors have embraced the resurgence of classical forms, rich textures, and sense of heritage in both vintage and modern pieces.
Western, Americana & Indigenous Craftsmanship
2025 brought a renewed interest in Western-influenced art, fashion, and design, with an emphasis on Americana-inflected pieces, turquoise-forward jewelry, and pieces crafted by the indigenous peoples of the Americas. As Beyoncé kicked off her ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour, 1stDibs collectors showed a similar affinity for Western-inspired style. Searches and purchases spotlighted cowboy boots, saddle bags, and horsebit loafers, reflecting a broader desire for classic American aesthetics. “Cowboy boots” ranked within the top-forty shoe search terms, while searches for Dior vintage saddle bags spiked 104% in Q1. Equestrian motifs also showed up in trending art; “horse painting” came in as the fifth most popular painting-related search term, and “Remington bronze sculpture” ranked in the top-ten sculpture-related searches.
Indigenous craftsmanship was similarly in demand. Navajo home designs experienced a surge in popularity, with searches for “navajo rugs” climbing 39% in Q1 and 32% in Q3. 1stDibs also saw an increased interest in turquoise jewelry and squash blossom necklaces, with searches for the former growing 45% in Q3.
Heirloom Bridal
Timeless and classic bridal fashion and jewelry remained in demand throughout 2025. “Wedding gown dresses” was the most-searched clothing term and the second overall search term of the year, with legacy fashion houses Dior, Valentino, and Ralph Lauren all landing in the top-ten searches. On the jewelry front, a 1950’s Tiffany & Co. Emerald Cut 10 Carat Diamond Ring was the 3rd most expensive jewelry sale at $526,000, reflecting the changing taste of 1stDibs’ shoppers. Wedding and engagement rings choice consistently featured vintage designs and high impact center-set diamonds from heritage jewelry houses, with “diamond engagement rings” ranked the sixth most common jewelry-related search term.
The spate of high-profile celebrity weddings and engagements consistently sparked increases in search activity, such as an 80% surge in searches for “Vivienne Westwood dress” after Charli XCX’s nuptials and a 609% spike for “ Ralph Lauren wedding dress” following Selena Gomez’s wedding. On the jewelry front, “East west ring” searches jumped 98% surrounding Zendaya’s Golden Globes engagement ring debut, whereas Taylor Swift’s Instagram engagement ring reveal saw a 27% spike in “old mine cut” searches, underscoring celebrity influence on fashion and jewelry trends.
Category-Specific Trends
Furniture & Lighting
Furniture and lighting trends were led by early to mid-20th century aesthetics, highlighting a preference for modern works from the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements:
Art
This past year showed a demand for museum-caliber artists:
Watches & Jewelry
Legacy jewelry houses remain dominant, with long-established American and European brands leading sales performance:
Handbags
‘Birkinmania’ gripped the fashion world in 2025:
Fashion
As a premier source for rare and sought-after fashion collectibles, 1stDibs has markedly experienced rising demand for leading fashion brands of the early 2000s:
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Some of the top trends observed in this year's Luxury E-Commerce Report included an Art Deco revival and Y2K style.
NEW YORK (AP) — After Pam Bondi became U.S. attorney general last year, conservative influencers, online sleuths and others who wanted the government to disclose all it knew about Jeffrey Epstein thought they might have a champion in the Department of Justice.
So did Jess Michaels, one of the legions of women who have said they were sexually assaulted by the late financier and convicted sex offender with a roster of powerful friends in business, politics and beyond.
“I thought, ‘Well, maybe a woman stepping into this role will finally, finally get the truth,’” Michaels recalled Thursday, after President Donald Trump announced Bondi was out of the nation's top law enforcement job.
“She had this opportunity to be a hero and to really do right by survivors of sexual violence and trafficking,” Michaels said, "and she chose not to.”
The furor over the “Epstein files,” as the trove of investigative records came to be known, wasn't the only controversy of Bondi's tenure. But the arc — first raising expectations for a big reveal, then declaring there was nothing to see, and ultimately a forced, flawed document dump — was a stubbornly problematic storyline that ran through her time as attorney general.
Bondi rejected criticism of her handling of the matter, and Trump on Thursday praised her as “a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend.”
Michaels and other Epstein victims watched it all with shaken trust that Bondi's departure alone won't likely rebuild.
“This is not about a single person,” accuser Annie Farmer said Thursday. “It is about a government and judicial system that has repeatedly failed Epstein survivors.”
Here's a glance at Bondi's part in the Epstein saga:
Freshly confirmed as attorney general for a president who had suggested on the campaign trail that he'd open more government documents on Epstein, Bondi whetted appetites by declaring on Fox News that “you’re going to see some Epstein information released.” And when a host asked about "releasing “the list of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients” — a long-rumored, never-seen sex trafficking roster — she replied that it was “sitting on my desk right now.”
A day later, conservative commentators and content creators were brought to the White House to get DOJ binders emblazoned with “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” and “Declassified.”
The attempt to showcase transparency soon backfired, once it emerged that the contents largely were already public. Bondi demanded that the FBI give her “the full and complete Epstein files,” and she later said that she'd unearthed a "truckload” of previously withheld material and that “everything is going to come out to the public.”
After months of anticipation, the Justice Department said it wouldn't release any more Epstein material. A court had sealed much of it to protect victims, and “only a fraction” would have come out if Epstein had gone to trial, the agency said in an unsigned memo. It added that authorities hadn't found evidence that merited new charges or investigations and that “perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein” wouldn't help victims get justice.
And, it said, there was no “client list.” As for Bondi's prior comment that it was on her desk, officials said she had meant the overall case file.
Conservative influencers, among others, blasted the turnabout and questioned Bondi’s capability. But Trump stood by her, scolding a journalist for attempting to ask her a question about Epstein at a White House Cabinet meeting.
Trump had himself raised questions for some years after Epstein's 2019 death in jail as the financier faced federal sex trafficking charges. After the Justice Department memo, however, the president suggested there was nothing more to say about Epstein and the country, including his own supporters, should simply move on.
Amid a drumbeat of disclosures that begin to exact consequences for some powerful people — particularly Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Britain's former Prince Andrew — Congress passed legislation to force the Justice Department to disclose its investigative files on Epstein. Trump signed it into law, casting the quest for Epstein information as a Democratic-led distraction from the Republican agenda.
Meanwhile, at his urging, Bondi announced that the U.S. attorney in Manhattan would investigate Epstein’s ties to some of the Republican president’s political foes, including Democratic former President Bill Clinton. None has been accused of misconduct by Epstein’s accusers; nor has Trump, another former Epstein friend. Both Clinton and Trump have said they knew nothing about Epstein's misconduct and cut ties with him many years ago.
At the statutory deadline for making the Epstein files public, the Justice Department released only some of them. While the records included some material the public hadn't previously seen, including some candid photos of Clinton, the documents didn't break major ground and included little about Trump.
The department said it was continuing to review other Epstein records to make sure that victims were protected.
But Democrats cried cover-up, bill sponsor Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., accused the Justice Department of breaking the law by missing the deadline and redacting too much, and some Epstein accusers also questioned the extensive redactions.
The Justice Department began releasing a huge cache of additional Epstein documents, videos and photos, though others remained under wraps.
The records pulled back a curtain on favor-trading and frank communications in a chummy elite that looked past Epstein's 2008 guilty plea to solicitating prostitution from an underage girl in Florida. Some high-flying Epstein friends resigned or lost jobs in corporate America, academia, big law firms, the British, Slovakian and Norwegian governments and beyond.
But the documents disclosed highly personal information about some victims while redacting the names of Epstein correspondents in, for example, emails that appeared to refer to the sexual abuse of underage girls.
Gloria Allred, an attorney for numerous Epstein victims, said Thursday that Bondi betrayed them by failing to protect personal information in the files.
“She has destroyed the trust in the DOJ that victims had a right to expect, and her termination may be the only type of justice that survivors will receive from the DOJ,” Allred said by email.
At a congressional hearing, a combative Bondi tried to quell the Epstein files controversy. She defended how the Justice Department dealt with it, lobbed personal insults at Democrats and lauded Trump over, among other things, the performance of the stock market.
Bondi said she was deeply sorry for what Epstein victims suffered. But she declined a request from Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., to face and apologize to them for the Justice Department's actions, and Bondi dismissed Massie’s critiques of the release of victims’ personal information.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform subpoenaed Bondi to answer questions on April 14 about the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein investigation and file release. With five Republicans joining Democrats to support the subpoena, it reflected widespread discontent, including in the GOP base, over Bondi’s management of the matter.
For now, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will be the acting attorney general.
Michaels, who traveled to the Capitol last year to press for the files’ release, wanted Bondi gone. But will Blanche do better?
"We can only hope. But given that they worked together, I don’t have great expectations,” she said.
The Associated Press generally does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Michaels has done.
Robert Glassman, an attorney for a woman who testified as “Jane” in the 2021 criminal trial of Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell, noted that agency leaders come and go.
“For victims of sexual abuse, what matters is whether the institutions meant to protect them actually do their job,” he said.
Attorney General Pam Bondi listens during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
