the new black

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English

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Etymology

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The phrase originates with clothing fashion, where at one point black was a fashionable color in clothes, and the next color to become fashionable was referred to as "the new black".

Noun

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the new black

  1. Something that is trendy, popular; the latest fashion.
    • 2004, Out, volume 4, numbers 1-5, page 14:
      These reporters are so caught up in the ‘red is the new black’ mentality," he says, "they're more interested in selling clothes than taking a stand on anything.
    • 2008, Nina Raine, Rabbit, page 49:
      EMILY: ... I'm interested in the brain, and stuff... neurology... it's very trendy right now.
      RICHARD. Neurology. It's the new black.
    • 2009, Graham Huggan, Ian Law, Racism Postcolonialism Europe, page 77:
      The writer and political activist A. Sivanandan has argued that ‘poverty is the new black’ (2001).

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