The Medievalcore Renaissance: A Return to Enchanted Femininity

The modern princess isn’t trapped in a tower, she chooses it. She lights beeswax candles, wears brocade corsets over slip dresses, and scribbles secrets in leather-bound journals while Lana Del Rey hums softly in the background. Welcome to the age of medievalcore, the aesthetic that’s weaving its spell again over fashion, beauty, and the way we dream ourselves into the world.

There’s a reason your FYP is suddenly full of filigree rings, moody forests, and girls who look like they stepped out of a 14th-century tapestry with better lighting. The resurgence of medievalcore isn’t just about aesthetics: it’s a collective yearning for mysticism, craftsmanship, and feminine depth in a hyper-digital world. The modern girl wants magic, not minimalism.

What is medievalcore?

It’s the visual lovechild of ancient ritual, Renaissance romance, and a Tumblr fueled imagination. Think:

• billowing sleeves and crinkled linen

• leather-bound books and pressed flowers

• melancholy ballads and soft harp music

• celestial embroidery and earthy perfumes

• chainmail textures, rosary beads, and twisted gold

It’s romantic without being soft. Witchy without being cliché. And it’s finally getting its moment again just like it did in the Anna Sui Fall 1998 Ready to Wear collection.

The Anna Sui Moment

Before cottagecore and fairy grunge, Anna Sui already knew: there’s power in looking like a medieval temptress who moonlights as a rockstar’s muse. Her Fall '98 RTW was pure enchanted grunge: velvet capes, lace up boots, jacquard mini dresses, and those unforgettable tapestry coats that looked like they were stolen from a poet-warrior’s wardrobe.

The collection was sultry, brooding, and unapologetically feminine. It was a spell: one that’s being re-cast today with a Gen Z twist.

Why It’s Back

Because we’re tired of the sterile. Of beige loungewear and chrome surfaces. We crave mythology, intimacy, texture. Medievalcore offers:

• A rebellion from fast fashion through handmade, heirloom aesthetics.

• A deeper connection to nature and ritual (hello, herbology and moon charts).

• A form of self-expression that is poetic, nostalgic, and timeless.

We want to wear bodices and speak in verse: not because it’s practical, but because it feels like home.

How to Embrace It (The Lazy Chaiii Way)

• Layer sheer slips under corset tops for a modern take on courtly dressing.

• Accessorize with relic inspired jewelry (worn gold, rose quartz, crosses, and medallions).

• Choose perfumes that smell like old libraries, rose oil, and damp stone (we’ll make a guide soon).

• Read The Mists of Avalon, light a candle, and romanticize your melancholia.

• Mix it with your current style: a little saint, a little sinner.

Medievalcore isn’t about full costume, it’s about evoking the energy of a forgotten world where women were muses, mystics, queens, and outlaws. Where your heartbreak was a divine tragedy and your beauty a weapon.

So, if you find yourself reaching for velvet at dawn, quoting Latin, or staring longingly at a field you’ve never visited don’t worry, girlie. You’re just in your medievalcore era.

And honestly? You wear it like it’s your birthright.

Stay enchanted,

xxx, The Lazy Chaiii