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Trend intelligence · declining · −0.01% momentum

Dark Academia

is currently at declining stage, peaking in 2019.

Trajectory
Emerged 2019
Peak 2019
Now 2026

Latest tracked period: 2026Q2.

Bellwether houses · driving dark_academia
runway

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Tommy Hilfiger
1.63
Thom Browne
1.50
Charles Jeffrey Loverboy
1.25
Etoile Isabel Marant
1.20
Polo Ralph Lauren
1.16
Coach
1.14
Chanel
1.12
Veronica Beard
1.06
Celine
0.85
Simone Rocha
0.83
Gucci
0.80
Petar Petrov
0.77
Editorial coverage · latest 1
editorial

Headlines link to the original publisher. Catwalker does not republish third-party article bodies.

Runway-to-retail matching · methodology

We score retail products against runway looks using FashionSigLIP embeddings, the same vector model that powers our look search.

For dark_academia, Catwalker keeps protected runway imagery backstage and surfaces affiliate-safe product images, ranked from the same visual and cultural signal graph. We will not surface cards built on guesses.

  • Visual scoringReady
  • Style affinity modelReady
  • Editorial corpusReady
  • Affiliate product feedLive
  • Hot-linked merchant imagesLive