This Bourgeois Jacket Feels Very 2024

Celine plaid blazer
(Image credit: Celine)

A great blazer is a closet essential and workhorse piece that deserves a spot in every wardrobe. While proportions and styles continue to evolve season after season—sometimes oversize with logo prints, other times more shrunken in solid neutrals—a classic, sharply tailored version in a plaid print is a version that transcends the trend cycle. In 2024, we’ve specifically been seeing the return of timeless checked styles that look like they could have been plucked out of the wardrobe of a 1980’s-era woman dressed in Celine on the Left Bank of Paris. In a word: bourgeois.

These bourgeois blazers also made a return to present-day Celine in the spring/summer 2025 collection by Hedi Slimane—his final collection for the French fashion house. He presented plaid blazers in a range of prints including small checks and houndstooth, styled with pleated knee-length skirts, slingback heels, and neck scarves. This bourgeois approach to fashion feels very 2024 and is only set to grow as we head into 2025. Ahead, the best plaid blazers to tap into the look.

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Kristen Nichols is the Associate Director, Special Projects at Who What Wear with over a decade of experience in fashion, editorial, and publishing. She oversees luxury and runway content as well as wedding features, and covers fashion within the luxury market, runway reporting, shopping features, trends, and interviews with leading industry experts. She also contributes to podcast recordings, social media, and branded content initiatives. Kristen has worked with brands including Prada, Chanel, Tiffany & Co., and MyTheresa, and rising designers such as Refine and Tove, and her style has been featured in publications including Vogue.com, Vogue France, WWD, and the CFDA. Before Who What Wear, Kristen began her career at Rodarte, where she worked on styling, photo shoots, and runway shows, and at Allure, where she moved into print and digital editorial. She graduated from the University of Southern California, where she studied art history and business, and currently lives in New York.