Under the soft glow of birthday candles—and the even softer glow of her own impossibly dewy skin—Hailey Bieber has declared her allegiance to a long-forgotten artefact of millennial nightlife: the going-out top.
At a time when Gen Z is collectively trading sticky dance floors for silk pillowcases and sober Sundays, Bieber’s latest look dares to tug us back into the delicious frivolity of pre-game glamour. And what a siren call it is.
For her 29th birthday celebrations, the Rhode founder slipped into a shimmering slip of a top—equal parts sparkle, straps, and nostalgia—styled with denim and those perfectly pointed heels that defined every early-aughts It-girl. It was the holy trinity of nightclub girlhood, revived and refined.
It’s almost poetic: the reigning queen of minimalism stepping briefly away from her soft-focus athleisure universe to embrace Y2K mischief. A glimmer of Alice Deejay in the air, a whisper of 2006 on the breeze—proof that even the cleanest of clean-girl aesthetics can’t outrun a good throwback.
Bieber’s Instagram carousel—already canon in the Valley Girl birthday moodboard—felt refreshingly low-key compared to Kendall’s island escapade or Kylie’s craft-coded soirées in Calabasas. Yet it carried that unmistakable message: even if you’re in a “no-fuss birthday” era, one great top can still make the night feel cinematic.
So yes—the club may be out, but the going-out top is emphatically back. And Hailey Bieber is leading the revival with the kind of sparkle that makes even the most dedicated homebodies consider a late-night Uber.
