How to Achieve the Dark Academia Look in Your Home

Are you as enchanted by the Dark Academia trend as we are? If you are on Instagram or TikTok, it's hard to miss this stylish subculture obsessed with tweed and turtlenecks, gothic architecture, books and libraries, preppy nostalgia and the Ivy League. We have lots of suggestions for how to bring Dark Academia style into your home and your look. For inspiration, check out Instagram accounts like @dark.academia and @cosyfaerie. This cozy room checks all the DA boxes: tufted leather sofa, wood-paneled library, wood-burning fireplace and hardwood floors.

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The rich wood tones, copious books, dim lighting and old world look that defines the 2019 hit mystery comedy Knives Out set pieces make it the perfect illustration of the Dark Academia aesthetic.

A Dark Academia family portrait, the eccentric cast of the quirky whodunnit Knives Out have the tweedy, preppie, traditional look of this TikTok style craze.

Some have decried Dark Academia as too centered on traditional WASP (white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant) style and traditions. But companies like Ralph Lauren have worked to make their version of preppy more inclusive as in their 2022 ad campaign featuring Black college students at Atlanta's prestigious Spelman and Morehouse colleges — also the company's first ever collaboration with a college. See their limited-edition capsule collection here.