Best Of 2025: We Met Hailey Bieber?! ‘TSITP’, The Labubu Takeover & ‘Swag 2’ | The LuxeGen Group Chat

0:00Welcome back to the LuxGen Group Chat. This week, we debunk all of 2025 and the most iconic moments of the year, including the most iconic collaborations. Peachy Den collabing with Amelia de Moldenburg. Really good. It was giving London It Girl. Yeah. Yes. Our favourite TV show of the year. I've not seen it. Guys, you need to catch up. And of course, the products we could not live without. After my first wash, I dried my hair and it felt thicker. Oh, wow. It's not cheap, but that is a good Christmas present. It's a good one and Merry Christmas. Welcome back to the LuxGen Groot Chat. Yay! I'm Daisy, and this week I'm joined by India and Poppy.

0:37Hello. This is the first time I've done it together. I know, it's about time. Here we go. Well, guys, it's the end of year wrap-up podcast. It's Christmas time. There's a lot to talk about. I know, I'm very excited. We were laughing as we sat down on our chairs. The podcast team have left us Christmas hats. Yay! I know. I've done a freaking slicked back bun. I know, that's really sad. That's gutting, but we're representing. Poppy's got a Christmas tree. It's really comfy and like really toasty as well. But happy Christmas. We're nearly there. I know. So one more week. And by the time this podcast goes live, it's very near.

1:06It's basically Christmas at that point. Very excited. What are your niche Christmas traditions? To this day, I still wake up in the morning and it's the Santa's tracks through the kitchen. Oh yeah, my mum does it all. Not my mum, Santa. And the carrots have been eaten, the mince pie there. Love that. We still do it all. That's so sweet. I know. I don't know if mine's very niche. It's just like what we do in a Ghanaian household. But we always have like jollof and other like Ghanaian, traditional Ghanaian dishes on the side. So we'll have like a turkey, potatoes, all the like everything else. And then we'll have like jollof, fried rice.

1:41Oh, delicious. I know, it's great. It's huge. That's like the best of both of us. I know, exactly. So you have a bit of turkey, a bit of potatoes and you have like jollof on the side. Do you have any? No, other than just like, I will eat so much chocolate for breakfast. Yeah, me too. And it's just fine. Like it's just, that's normal. It's just allowed. No one can argue. Yeah, exactly. So what have been the highlights of your year, ladies? Well, I obviously started the first half of the year at uni. So this year for me has been from one end straight to the other. So I've got highlights from both work and uni.

2:08The BFAs was just something special. It was insane. And to see our team on the carpet, like that almost was one of my favourite bits. But you guys saw them from the actual car. Yeah, we saw everyone coming in. It was insane. Indy, yours has got to be Venice. Yeah, you took the words out of my mouth. I was going to say Venice was like, I can't even speak. It was an unreal experience. Like I was rubbish shoulders with Aaron Taylor Johnson. Yes. Just the film festival, getting to watch Frankenstein, the food, the dinner, the team with Giorgio Armani, like being in Venice. Oh, just the whole thing.

2:41I could have just been in Venice and just ridden on the, not the gondolas. What are they called? Yeah, the gondolas. Yeah, the gondolas. Insane. Well, it's been a mega year and we're going to deep dive into our favorite premieres, our favorite red carpet looks, our favorite pop culture, our favorite memes. Yeah. Before we get into it, I'd love to know where both your outfits are from. Yeah, but probably time to take the hat off. Yeah, I know. Should we just... Where's the hat from? I'm going to miss the turkey. Right, kick us off, Poppy. So, jacket is from Monsoon, actually. This is so cool. And I got it in the shop last year, I think, or the year before, which was really nice.

3:13Black t-shirt underneath, ASOS Topshop, classic. My trusty suit trousers I wear every single day from Zara. They're comfy. They go with everything. If it ain't break, don't fix it. No, honestly, actually. Do you know what I'm talking about? I'm the same. And then my Dycheman loafers that are probably the most comfy loafers I've ever put on my We worked with them this year, didn't we? Yeah. That's so cool. I'm wearing this jacket thing from M &S. It's Depop, but M &S purchase. This is just weekday. This is honestly the best t-shirt. If you want like a skims dupe that's going to suck you in and just a good underlayer, this is your guy.

3:44It's so good. And they come in loads of different colors. My jeans are Zara and they're not the ones with the holes in them. I changed. And then my trainers are Adidas, the taekwondo's, which I also wear literally every single day. Yeah, you do. Yeah, I've got a Zara, like, houndstooth bomber on. Another basic knit from Zara, actually. Trousers from COS, which, like Poppy, I've absolutely worn to death. I borrowed them from Maya, because she has not received them back. And then my loafers from Baird, which are actually the comfiest loafers I own. Oh, nice. All right, well, let's get into our hot list.

4:16Let's go.

4:21Okay, I'm excited for this one. Favorite celebrity moment of 2025. Oh. Jojo C. Walker-C's. My Roman Empire. We need to, like, dissect that. How is that going on? They're still going. I honestly feel like they're soulmates. Yeah, I agree. Also, the fact that it's not just come out of nowhere. We got to watch the meet from Celebrity Big Brother. We got to see it all live. Like the whole relationship unfold. And the two, what I love is the two families merging. You've got LA. you've got like rural British countryside. It's like, yeah. Also, her whole vibe has just changed now. She's now like trad wife.

4:54What is that song that she released where she was like in a Marilyn Monroe? Yeah, literally. And like this blue dress. I was like, I've never seen this side of her before. That actually was one of my favorite viral moments. Everyone recreating the Betty Davis. But also, he's so supportive. Like he commented on that video like, you go, babe. Oh, I love it. I love it. Oh, I do love him as well. I just think they've got a really good dynamic going and they're really happy. Unexpected, but it's working. So unexpected. my favourite moment has to be obviously the Kendrick and Drake beef has been going on for a while but at the Superbowl when Kendrick is singing the They Not Like Us and he says hey Drake and looks right into the camera and he has a little smirk and everyone's like this is insane like the shade is crazy he got Serena Williams Drake's ex in the show as well he's like the biggest petty person in Hollywood right now I don't know if anyone can beat him but I know he's won that whole beef situation I love that moment that was hilarious hilarious I think for me it's Timothee Chalamet arriving to a premiere on a line bike oh yeah I forgot about that do you remember that so funny what premiere was that a complete unknown but it broke the internet yeah he's just so he just doesn't he's so cool yeah yeah yeah I love it and he's still I mean he's still in making headlines isn't he yeah okay coolest collab of the year for me I reckon Peachy Den collabing with Amelia de Moldenburg really good that was good that was really it was giving London It Girl yeah yes so so good and also Nike and Jacquemus obviously we talk about Jacquemus so much on this podcast but they did a recent campaign in the mountains where they created the Nike swoosh and it said it was just there in the mountains for their latest campaign Nike have had some crazy campaigns they've also done something with Skims which is insane did you not predict that this time last year yes I think I did I also swear it's happened before am I making that up oh no that was North Face and Skims North Face and Skims also but I feel like one of my predictions last year was Skims and some sort of like sports brand.

6:48So Kim Kardashian, I'm glad I gave you that idea. Yeah, that was very good. India? So Carhartt and Sakai. Obviously Carhartt is an amazing brand. It's really cool, like really cool work in progress gear. But then Sakai is a really cool like Japanese low key, just like flowy baggy outfits. And so the collaboration I think was perfect because it's all quite unexpected because they're really like underground Japanese brand with a quite popular like streetwear brand. It was just a perfect combination. And their campaign was so cool, wasn't it? But so expensive, that's like my wish list item, absolutely.

7:25What about you, Poppy? Well, more of like an achievable one, High Street. You've got Zara and Kate Moss around festival season. Those pieces I thought were really cool. She has some really cool jewellery in that as well. Yeah, and there were these like gold hot pants shorts that were just really cool. I mean, I wasn't going to any festivals this year, but if I was, I would have looked there. And then more recently, H &M and Glen Martin, especially this yellow satin dress, I think is so cool. And then they had, it was like a satin skirt with a printed skirt on it. And the pieces were like achievable, cool, affordable, but also like felt like designer.

7:57So I love those. Yeah, more cool collabs in 2026. Yeah, they've also got H &M and Stella McCartney coming out soon as well, which I think would be very cool. H &M have like smashed the collabs with designer brands as well this year. Great. And even we were talking about Gap and Summer Fridays last week. So good. Gap is their resurgence. I am so behind. Yeah, Gap's had a few good ones too. Yeah, exactly. Because whatever collaboration they've done, they stay true to the Gap audience and they stay true to their pieces. Like you can tell that it's Gap style through and through. I just love it. I would wear a Gap hoodie like all day, every day, every day.

8:27One of my favorite hoodies is actually Gap. Really? It's like tartan where it says Gap and it's gray and it's oversized and then the hood's tartan as well. I just love the Gap. I don't know. I just love the branding. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's iconic. Yeah, it's so iconic. Okay, I'm excited for this one. Favorite album launch? There have been so many this year. There's been a lot. There have been a lot. Go on, what are we saying? Mine has to be Daniel Caesar, Sun of Spurgy. Me and Lola have been talking about this literally every single day since it's released. Every song is banger after banger. No skips, just repeat after repeat.

8:57No skips. Yeah, literally no skips. I can't even tell you one of the songs because I just play it like from beginning to end, but like I don't check what the songs are just because they're amazing. But that's been my top album. What about you? So, well, one of my favorites is one that you definitely have. But the other one, again, one that's just like, I love the album, The Art of Loving, Olivia Dean. Just one of those albums I can put play and there's no skips. Just listen to it. I can listen to it on the commute. You can listen to it with whatever vibe you're feeling. Yes. That's a good point.

9:24Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like getting ready for pre's, a little bit of something. Yeah. A little bit emotional on the train home, a bit of something. That's so good. It just hits all the marks. In a flow state, a bit of something. Yeah, yeah. Shout out for Man's Best Friends, Sabrina Carpenter, just because a few of them have just been a bit iconic. She's had a brilliant year. She's had a great year. And I feel like the reason I'm shouting out is it's giving 2025. Yeah. Like, it's just... It's encapsulated the year perfectly. Yeah, it's great. If there's anything that really represents that, it's her.

9:51It's her. 2025 has been huge for music. Yeah. But it's gotta be swag. I knew it. I'm not surprised. Are we surprised? Justin Bieber posted 97 times in five days ahead of his album launch. Amazing. 97 in five days. No one is standing on business more than Justin. That's my favourite movie. The thing is, though, he did not need to post 97 times. He actually didn't. He didn't, but it created such a stir, didn't it? Also, even standing... It's not Clark and to them standing on business. PR. Yeah. PR. Do you remember Hayley's snapback when she was like, he really was. Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I also love the way Swag One and Swag Two had such a different vibe, yet they were so him.

10:30Wait, am I behind? I didn't know there was Swag One and Swag Two. Yeah, Swag 2 is like an extension of Swag 1. It's like all the same songs plus more. My top song of 2025, Mother and You, Justin Bieber. It's an emotional one, but... It's good. It's good. It's a goodie. Speed Demon, it might be for me. Speed Demon. I thought it'd be Daisies. Yeah, Daisies. Daisies was my top played song this year on my rap. Which is kind of iconic. Yeah. Oh my God, brilliant. What has been your most used, most viral product that you guys have been obsessed with this year? For me, I was on a massive hair care journey this year.

11:01So my hair at the beginning of the year. fried basically a lob and really bleached blonde and the recovery she's had K18 molecular mask honestly safe so talk us through how are you working that in it is expensive but basically when you use it my hairdresser described it as like a graft so you use it loads at first and then you stop once every few weeks so you use it for like your first four to six washes when you're like right I need the rejuvenation back after my first wash I dried my hair and it felt thicker oh wow And it just, it saved it. But she's not cheap. But that is a good Christmas present.

11:35I just can't recommend it enough. And it wasn't a gimmick. I bought it and thought, oh God, if this isn't good, waste of money. Tremendous. Good investment. Brilliant. Mine is actually a tool. It's the Makeup by Mario F4 Double-Sided Brush. Okay. I know everyone says, oh, good makeup brush, change of makeup. But I have seen this in real time. Like my makeup this year has changed like drastically compared to last year. A good brush is all you need. So one side is for blush. Or to be honest, I think you can use it like with whatever. But I use one side for blush and then I use the other for my skin stencil foundations and then my concealers.

12:12And I don't know what Mario has put in the brushes. I don't always put in the bristles. It has genuinely made my makeup so smooth. Everything blends out so well. My makeup looks so seamless and my skin just looks amazing. genuinely invest in a good brush and your makeup will take you from a six to a ten. Well, you've sold me. I was about to say I am petri-se. Forget about the products. You need a good brush and that will change everything. I think brush is coming back 2026. No, I agree. Makeup sponges, out. Get that out. 24 sponge, 25 brush. It's got to be the Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm for me.

12:42Yeah, fairs. I honestly don't think I have a pair of trousers that doesn't have one in my pocket. I so agree. I've got one in every shade, I swear. In every bag as well. Also multiple. And I've got my mum on it as well. Really? They do last as well. So good. Great gifts. Cocoa butter. My favorite. Mine's pink sugar. Sorry. Hot cocoa. Yours is pink sugar. And I just love the flavors. And I love the way they feel as well. They're so smooth. The guava one. It tastes amazing. I've got very sensitive lips as well. So if anyone else out there struggles with lipsticks, whatever, this just. Nice. We touched on collabs.

13:10But have there been any favorite campaigns this year? Cat's Eye and Gap. Again. Amazing. Gap is up on top. Literally another one. Cat's Eye for Gap. that genuinely I think took that must have taken gap sales from like here to like up here that dance or whatever that was was insane and just the virality of it everyone trying to recreate the dance on TikTok and just them wearing obviously the gap clothes in the campaign as well and also them being like an up and coming group slash like artists in this or in 2025 I guess was just like a perfect collaboration I think that was like top for me also do you know why it was even more iconic.

13:48Yeah. So that came out, I'm pretty sure like early August and late July was Sydney Sweeney's flop about jeans. Oh, really? So it was low key, not like obviously it would have already been planned and sorted, but the timing of it was like, this is how to do a jean campaign correctly. Buy American Eagle, Hello Gap. Yeah. So that was amazing. No, I love that. Poppy. So Refise Never Get Sold. I just absolutely loved it. Like, I don't know what it was, but it was giving me like hope that, you know, I can be chic and a diva at that age. And like I also think it just brings together like all different ages.

14:20It shows refers not just for the Gen Z's that everyone can be a part of it. And they just looked so amazing and I just thought it was a really wholesome, really nice campaign. And then another one that was the talk of the town was Billy's deodorant campaign. In New York they put these posters and you could scratch and sniff to smell the deodorant. So you could, everyone was going up, you can give it a scratch and it was a photo of someone's armpit and you could smell the different deodorant stuff. And I'm like, that's one that's like a bit more outrageous in our pocket, but it got the people talking.

14:48Yeah, but it's just like being interactive. Like everyone loves a good freebie or just actually being able to experience a product. Like I've never seen a deodorant advert slay quite like Billy's. So good. What about you, Daisy? It's probably got to be Burberry's Tea Campaign. Amazing. Cole Palmer, Olivia Colman. Like they smashed it. They just tapped into what it is like to be British. Yeah. Making a cup of tea. It was shot on an iPhone. It was so raw. I just think they absolutely nailed it. And you've got like either end of the spectrum. You've got like Olivia Colman and you've got Cole Palmer.

15:16Like just literally two different. And that's so genius because it was landing on the for you pages of Gen Z. All sorts of millennials. All sorts. I do think Burberry is smashing it this year. Like I feel like they're going to be big in 2026. Like their festival campaign as well was amazing. And like their show was like out of London Fashion Week. The content that I engaged with the most. It was so iconic. And like having Ab Fab, they were back. Yeah. It was just great. Well India, you were in the press kit. Yeah, we were impressed here. I saw Tom Blyth, the guy from Hunger Games, the newest one.

15:49I'm gonna add him to my celebrity crush list. Okay. But everyone that walked in was dressed amazingly. Like I know obviously everyone's dressed in head-toe burberry, but it was just styled so well. And I could see, before everyone came in, I could see into the marquee of where the show was being held and the decor, the theme of it. It was just all amazing. And then everyone coming out, it was just, it's such an experience. and I hope one day I get to go to the show. Barbara, if you're listening. Favourite TV show of the year. Ooh. It's been a good year for film and TV. Ooh, Severance. Have you guys watched Severance?

16:23I've not seen it. Guys, you need to catch up. I started watching Severance for the first time this year. I think it's been out for a couple of years now. But if you haven't watched it, it's basically about your body being severed into two. so you have a different personality in your workplace or in a specific workplace and then you come out and you have a totally different personality. So interesting. And so, I don't, I can't even spoil it. It's so hard to explain but that's just the whole, like, overarching thing. And then do you remember their pop-up in, what was it called, the station? Grand Central Station.

16:54Grand Central Station. They basically built this, like, big glass box. It was supposed to replicate the office where you're supposed to be severed inside and they had all the actors in it. That was so cool. It was insane. That is cool. And just the whole show was amazing. And the memes that came out of that as well. All the characters were amazing. It was great. I need to watch it. That was my favourite. You guys need to watch it. Yeah. Catch up. I think so. Days, what about you? Oh, guys. It's got to be the summer I turn pretty. That is 2025. I'm sorry. That is 2025. We did a screening with Coach for the first episode of the new season.

17:26That was a career high this year. That is still the only episode I've ever watched of the summer I turn pretty. Really? Yeah. Yeah. India didn't really get on that train, but I'll never forget. We were sat next to each other in the premiere. What? And I don't even know. It was just Jeremiah being Jeremiah. Yeah, to be fair. If you haven't watched the first two seasons. Yeah, so I think I was a bit confused. She was shell shocked. I would look to the right and India was there just like, Oh, so funny. Like, Belly, I'm gonna marry you girl. Like, what? I don't even want to show you, but I remember that.

17:55Oh no. Anyway, but Jenny Han honestly created a movement this year. Also, I had never actually seen it, Confession, before. And then because we were working with them, I was like, God, I've got to see what the hype's about. I want to get involved. So you already started watching it in July? So I started watching the first season, and then I got hooked to catch up with enough time to watch season three. And so for me, it all happened in one go, which is why I think I was even more passionate. And Connie, baby, I'm going to miss him. Well, he's coming back. Is he? The film. Oh, my God. Will that be 2026, though?

18:25So we'll be back to square one talking about it. Yeah, sorry. It was the playlist as well in the film. I'm like, the music was, I could go on all day. So good. Favourite meme of the year? It's got to be the Coldplay scandal. No, that was so good. And then the recreations. People were dressing up as the camera for Halloween. No way people were dressing up as the camera. And it's just the way that it was so organic. Yeah. And it spread across the world. And just to think that if they had just acted normal, that would have never happened. That would have never happened. They could have just stood there and no one would have known.

18:58Oh, the amount of people in that stadium and they just got caught. Oh, that's going to be my worst nightmare. What about you guys? Do you guys know that you'll be married in a year in the suburbs? Yeah. The kid on the way in free. Oh, my God, guys. So, basically, it's this guy in America. I don't know. I don't know if he's a singer. I hope he's not a singer. Sorry. And it was like a round of fire. And there's this one guy in the middle of the circle. And he's with his guitar and he's singing. He's like, you'll be married in a year in the suburbs. The song is bad. his voice is bad it pans in to different people's reactions kind of like what is going on and they're all holding their torches up and they're just like this is so bad he would go up on his tippy toes he was like are you being married in a year in the suburbs and so that people start making memes of that and it was they are hilarious i have a folder that's called laugh out fucking loud and i've got like four videos of just people recreating you'll be married in a year in the suburbs if you know what I'm talking about, please back me up here.

19:55It is so funny. But yeah, and then 6-7. 6-7. I still don't understand it. I don't know what it is. It cringes me out. I saw this hilarious video of this guy on, there were two platforms on the station. There was a primary school group of kids on the other side and he was going like that. And the kids were erupting from the other side of the platform. And obviously the teacher was just like, trying to control them and then he'd come out again and go No! Oh, there's so many. One for me just off the bat is the Hamilton climbing out the window that was so good like why was that so funny how did it go again it was like Alexander come back to sleep I have an early meeting out of town I don't think I had this oh my gosh guys I don't think I did this was all over my few pages oh it was so good oh the other one for 2025 Jet 2 oh yeah Jet 2 actually Jet 2 is 2025 Jet 2 is 2025 incredible favourite controversy of 2025 25.

20:53I feel like there was quite a few this year. I mean, obviously you've had Sydney Sweeney and the jeans campaign. Mine has got to be TikTok being banned for 12 hours in the US. Yes, and I was banned. Yes, you were in here. Yeah, I don't know why I was affected, but I was banned. But do you remember everyone's like goodbye videos, it was very emotional. James Charles hiding under the duvet, he posted the funniest video being like, they've not called me yet, I'm hiding under, and I was like, oh, this is too good. It was actually quite emotional. But it lasted 12 years. It lasted 12 hours. Literally only 12.

21:24So yeah, that was mine. Yeah, that's a good one. Le Boo Boo's. I don't want to hear that. I was never on board with it. They scare me. I agree. When they became expensive, like just everything about them is a no for me. I think they're demonic. I get the Sunny Angels. I just think they look weird. Because they were cute, but Le Boo Boo's were butters. They look weird. Why were people queuing like hours for Le Boo Boo's? Why were the prices that high? I kind of rate them. I've got one on my desk. Oh yeah, you do. Yeah, but you didn't queue for hours for that. No, true, true. So your one's all right.

21:57I just like, what do you do with them? They like, I don't like them on bags. Yeah, I don't want that in my bag. I don't want that on my bag. I don't want it on my bag. I don't want it in my bag. I don't want it in my house. I don't want it anywhere. Standout press tour. Ooh. Okay, so obviously. Madame Marvel. Wicked Witch. And like, that was just iconic. not because I think it was anything revolutionary. It was just bizarre. Every single interview, man of Marvel, it's just repeated, repeated, repeated. But that one was iconic. That one, but then the one that I love seeing snippets from is Stranger Things.

22:34Yeah. Specifically, Millie and Noah's relationship. And you guys went to the premiere. Yes. Amazing. We saw them in the flesh. Yeah, we saw them in the flesh. It was great. It was great. We literally walked past Gaten Matarazzo. Literally, if I'm here, he was there. Wow. It was just, And then like Caleb was doing an interview, so kind of walk past him as well. Like it was, it was so surreal. I was like, what was really nice about watching it there was like, anytime the character came on for the first time on screen, everyone would be like, yeah, that is so nice. It was so nice. Oh my God, I love that.