Murray carp, rock festivals and old books: What’s hot in 2023

What will we be eating, drinking, watching and reading in 2023? We asked the experts.

2023 trends to watch - artwork

Wondering what’s going to be hot in 2023? Here’s what local experts say will be the key trends across food, wine, fashion and entertainment.

Food – Duncan Welgemoed, chef patron at Africola

“I think 2023 food trends will be about simpler food, better ingredients and a bigger focus on the suburbs more than CBD on interesting new bars, restaurants and cafes. The dawn of the neighbourhood is upon us and I’m pretty excited about it”

Watch out for: My one ingredient that should count for all of them for 2023 are River Murray carp, which every household should be eating. Clean and versatile, hyper local and cheap, the humble carp has everything – it’s guilt free eating and you’re helping the environment to boot. The eggs of the carp can also be turned into killer taramasalata, the belly makes for an awesome crumbed coteletta or fish fingers and the mince can be turned into fish dumplings or a spicy larb.

Like a sturgeon: Chef Duncan Welgemoed, with a fish that is most definitely not a Murray carp. Photo: Tourism SA

Wine – Justin Lane, domestic buyer for Langton’s Fine Wine

“I think in 2023 we’ll see a trend towards wines of providence and place. People are looking beyond labels and variety and returning to style, wines that talk to the place where they are grown. If you look at the recent launch of Munda, the first First Nations-owned and produced wines, they are really pushing the definition of terroir and what that word means, and speaking to a very ancient sense of country.”

Watch out for: Mount Pleasant’s shiraz-pinot blends, made in the Mountain Wine style of Maurice O’Shea, the father of Australian wine.

Pauly Vandenbergh from Indigenous enterprise Munda Wines. Picture Mark Brake

Music – Nathan Davies, music writer, The Advertiser

“Genre agnosticism will be hot in 2023. You want to listen alt-country, electro pop, hardcore punk and ambient drone rock in the same morning? Go for it, nobody’s going to judge you for it. Tik Tok and other social media platforms will become even more important in breaking new artists – radio is almost redundant on this front – and the end of Covid restrictions will see a year of touring acts the likes of which we haven’t seen in decades. Start saving.”

Watch out for: Adelaide’s Elsy Wameyo, Melbourne’s Floodlights, Memphis rapper GloRilla

Adelaide singer, actress and writer Elsy Wameyo. Pictures: Alain Pottier

TV – Lisa Woolford, national entertainment writer, News Corp

“Streaming services such as Netflix, Binge and Disney+ will continue their reign over traditional networks, with perhaps only the ratings juggernauts of live sport to defy that trend. An August report showed watching traditional channels has almost stopped for Millennials, with 90 per cent of 18- to 24-year-olds heading straight to their favourite streamers.

While dropping entire seasons of shows at once for a good old binge watch will continue (thankyou Netflix for constantly giving us immediate gratification); other streamers have gone back to the teasing out of a series with one episode a week, generating water cooler convos – OK, OK, yes usually virtually. You can expect more of that in the new year.

Watch out for: The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart (Prime Video), North Shore (Ten), Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Netflix), Ted Lasso Season 3 (AppleTV+), The Last of Us (Binge)

Golda Rosheuvel as Queen Charlotte in Bridgerton.

Fashion – Cristina Tridente, designer-director, couture+love+madness

I think 2023 fashion trends will involve more colour and overall fun. After the last few years of being in and out of lockdowns and pandemics, I think people want to celebrate fashion and are putting more thought and effort into the looks they create. I also think people are being more selective with what they purchase. Many are starting to ask the question “where did this item come from?” and also the importance of sustainability and locally made is becoming a higher priority for consumers.

Look out for: Bright colours, bold shapes

Essentials: Basic transeasonal pieces to mix and match from local designers

Bright colour is coming back to fashion in 2023. Picture Matt Turner

Books – Jason Lake, owner, Imprints Books, Hindley Street

Next year will be the year of the re-read! It’s time to reconnect with the seminal texts from our past. The books that blew our minds and kept us up past bedtime. It may be Kerouac and the other angel-headed hipsters of the Beat Generation. Or Virginia Woolf and the assorted philosophers, intellectuals and artists of the Bloomsbury Group.

Watch out for: Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

TRENDS WE’D BE HAPPY TO SEE THE END OF IN 2023

* Tik Tok influencers … everywhere

* The Metaverse

* Mullets

* Bluetooth speakers at the beach. Just get some headphones!

* Royal dramas

* People who say, “No offence, but …”

* Corporate talk. Let’s end this, going forward

* Gender reveals

* The inability to allow other drivers to merge

* Online recipes that start with a 2000 word essay

* Social media “pranks”

* South Road

* Driving massive American-style trucks to pick up milk from the shop

* Filming entire gigs with your phone. You get 30 seconds of your favourite song, that’s it.

* Kanye

AND THE COLOUR OF THE YEAR IS … VIVA MAGENTA

Colour experts Pantone has declared Viva Magenta the colour of the year.

What does this mean? Nobody really knows, but there you go.

It’s a brighter shade than last year’s rather subdued pick of Very Peri, and certainly a step up on 2021’s Ultimate Grey.

“In this age of technology, we look to draw inspiration from nature and what is real,” Pantone’s executive director Leatrice Eiseman said.

Which is good. It’s always nice to be inspired by what is real.

“Pantone 18-1750 Viva Magenta descends from the red family, and is inspired by the red of cochineal, one of the most precious dyes belonging to the natural dye family as well as one of the strongest and brightest the world has known.”

Ms Eiseman neglected to mention that cochineal is made from squashing bugs.

Pantone's colour of the year, Viva Magenta