Attention Fashion Girls: Fall's Top Trends Are Hiding in Nordstrom's Sale Section

And for under $360.

four women standing on the street at paris fashion week in trendy fall clothing
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From the rise of royal purple to the cowboy boot comeback, romantic lace-trimmed everything and striped rugby shirts stealing focus, fall 2025’s fashion trends are expansive enough to have something everyone can enjoy. The same goes for shoppers of all budgets: some will have fun stockpiling their digital carts with new-in designer buys; others will find what they're looking for under $100. Case in point: Nordstrom's summer sale, which, to the joy of savvy fashion girls everywhere, is filled with discounted fall shoe trends, popular color palettes, It bags, and more.

From now until September 9, the retailer is celebrating the start of the new season by marking down its best fall fashion finds up to 60 percent. Think: the front-running boot silhouettes that walked down the Fall 2025 runways and cuddle-worthy sweaters in the season’s color trends, like decadent chocolate brown and warm cabernet. Moreover, Nordstrom is intent on keeping you cozy: all of the top 2025 coat trends are present and accounted for in its sale section, from leather bomber jackets and faux fur dusters you can swaddle into.

To simplify your scrolling (Nordstrom’s summer 2025 sale includes hundreds of items), the below edit rounds up the very best, top trending pieces for fall. Here’s to the shoppers who want to partake in the new season's fun without blowing all their funds.

four women standing on the street at paris fashion week in trendy fall clothing

(Image credit: Tyler Joe for Marie Claire)
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Emma Childs
Fashion Features Editor

Emma Childs is the fashion features editor at Marie Claire, where she explores the intersection of style and human interest storytelling. She covers viral, zeitgeist-y moments—like TikTok's "Olsen Tuck" and Substack's "Shirt Sandwiches"—and has written hundreds of runway-researched trend reports. Above all, Emma enjoys connecting with real people about style, from picking a designer's brain to speaking with athlete stylists, politicians, and C-suite executives.

Emma previously wrote for The Zoe ReportEditorialistElite Daily, and Bustle and studied Fashion Studies and New Media at Fordham University Lincoln Center. When Emma isn't writing about niche fashion discourse on the internet, you'll find her stalking eBay for designer vintage, doing hot yoga, and "psspsspssp"-ing at bodega cats.