On the runway: looks we love from fashion week around the world
As fashion lovers turned their attention to Paris last week for the final shows of the Fall/Winter 2024 season, we were busy selecting our favorite pieces from Fashion Weeks around the world. Across New York, London, Milan, and Paris, this season did not disappoint. Between classic call-backs to timeless favorites, boundary-pushing innovation, and an inundation of talented designers, here are our favorite looks:
NEW YORK
This year’s New York Fashion Week marked a departure from some of the entertainment-value stunts we have become used to seeing all over our Instagram and TikTok feeds. Instead, many designers chose to return to detailed tailoring, layering, and striking silhouettes, characteristics that have long-defined luxury fashion. Here are our favorite pieces from New York:
Dennis Basso
With a focus on the intersection of femininity and strength, London-based fashion house Erdem seamlessly mixes timeless material with modern design. Designer Erdem Moralioglu MBE uses cut-outs and an asymmetrical cape to modernize the traditional tweed dress (center image), adding contrasting leather gloves and feathered heels to cement this look’s spot in our London Fashion Week favorites. Moralioglu also caused a stir with multiple, purposefully wrinkled satin looks (right image), a call-back to the 90s and its popularization of satin evening wear. The wrinkles bring this dress straight to 2024, combining timeless elegance with a modern focus on effortless high fashion.
London
London Fashion Week presented a continuation of what has become a familiar undercurrent of rebellion as designers called back to classic elements but added a modern twist. Many looks were anchored in bold color, angular silhouettes, and creative adaptations to nostalgic designs.
Erdem
With a focus on the intersection of femininity and strength, London-based fashion house Erdem seamlessly mixes timeless material with modern design. Designer Erdem Moralioglu MBE uses cut-outs and an asymmetrical cape to modernize the traditional tweed dress (center image), adding contrasting leather gloves and feathered heels to cement this look’s spot in our London Fashion Week favorites. Moralioglu also caused a stir with multiple, purposefully wrinkled satin looks (right image), a call-back to the 90s and its popularization of satin evening wear. The wrinkles bring this dress straight to 2024, combining timeless elegance with a modern focus on effortless high fashion.
MILAN
Milan Fashion Week always promises glamor and avant-garde design – the 2024 Fall/Winter collections did not disappoint. With modern looks and immersive viewing experiences, Milan Fashion Week was our favorite city to watch this season.
Diesel
Diesel’s show has become one of the most hotly-anticipated each season due to its out-of-the-box concepts, and this year was no different. Broadcasting over 1,000 viewers from a massive Zoom call onto the walls of the show, Diesel accentuated its modern designs with an influencer-esque, meta experience that made viewers part of the show. This nod to technology also appeared on the catwalk, through Diesel designer Glenn Martens’ innovative approach to the brand’s trademark materials, denim and leather.
PARIS
Last but certainly not least, Paris Fashion Week delivered luxurious, creative design. While it is no surprise to see legendary labels like Vivienne Westwood, Schiaparelli, and Alexander McQueen in Paris, new creative directors and directions added another dimension to their collections this year.
Schiaparelli
While Schiaparelli’s braided-hair necktie dominated headlines, this collection was largely centered on statement outerwear. Adding some innovation to classic tailoring, relaxed-fitting suits and denim-on-denim looks with thoughtful detailing underlined Daniel Roseberry’s creative direction for the collection. Looking beyond the sense of extraordinary that Schiaparelli has become associated with and the glamor of star-studded front rows, Roseberry endeavored to bring pieces appropriate for day-to-day styling into this collection.
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