If you feel like you’ve been seeing the silk scarf everywhere this year, it’s because you have.

It seems when it comes to accessories, we’re throwing it way back – and no, we don’t mean to the 80s or the 90s. We’re travelling back to the 50s thanks to one hot item that our favourite celebrities and influencers have deemed to be the accessory of the season: the scarf.

And when we say scarf, we’re not talking about the oversized, long scarf you can wrap around and around your neck in the cooler months – we’re talking about the classic silky square-shaped scarf, typically worn around your head like a glamorous classic movie star.

A silk or cotton scarf was a mainstay for major movie stars like Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren and Elizabeth Taylor, who tied them around their heads to protect their hairstyles and to sneak under the radar as much as was possible for stars of their calibre.

But in more recent years, we’ve seen the scarf resurgence on stars like Hailey Bieber, who wore a leopard print scarf over a baseball cap at Coachella 2024; Sabrina Carpenter, who went full starlet glam for her Please Please Please video in a blue scarf and dress combo with cat-eye sunglasses; and Rihanna, who loves tying a printed Hermès silk scarf around her hair for a day out.