Glamorous Ode To Tie Era!

Across Manhattan and Brooklyn, designers have been offering enticing twists on familiar dress codes at New York Fashion Week. Perhaps fittingly, there was a lot of fashion to love.

Whereas the designers, celebrities, editors, and other fashion followers made sure that New York Fashion Week began with a blaze of glory. The fashion week has been closed with a show that’s sure to tap into viewers’ deepest and most fantastical design dreams.

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Our faves? On one hand, it’s LaQuan Smith’s collection, which is an ode to office sirens. Whereas, marking a tentpole return to New York Fashion Week, the designer Thom Browne’s collection was inspired by Gothic horror and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” specifically. Read ahead to get an inner scoop for more deets.

New York Fashion Week began with a blaze of glory.

LaQuan Smith

For Fall/Winter 2024, LaQuan Smith stood on both business and play while taking inspiration from the unapologetic strength and glamour of female power brokers. This collection being an ode to the designer’s office sirens, while the fashioner’s glamour ruled the show. Pinstripe blazers were fitted with corsets to flatter the female form, while collared shirts were tucked into velvety bodysuits that were left uncovered. Sheer tops offered a view of models’ underlayers; satin gowns tied around the neck with asymmetrical finishes; reflective gowns were dramatically cut to reveal the body, and others were more conservative in form.

The line was suited for both of its galvanizing locales: the office and the club. Making this season an exploration into daywear done the LaQuan Smith way. Whereas provocative power suiting in rich hues like navy, which is a symbol of financial stability, cotton poplin bodysuits that transition seamlessly from day to night, and sharply tailored overcoats in sumptuous wools. On the other hand, Smith’s inspirations may have been female-dominated, but this year the runway included a legion of menswear ensembles, building on the category that he only first introduced last season. This time around, the LaQuan Smith men were evidenced just as opulent as his female counterpart.

Thom Browne

Thom Browne closed NYFW marking with an unparalleled exhibition of intrigue, romance and design poetry. For his Fall/Winter 2024 collection, Browne looked to Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “The Raven,” for inspiration. Browne’s sense of fanciful, yet tailoring-centric dressing was met with a darker edge. Opening the show was a semi-distraught mother-like figure who continued prancing around the entire snow-clad set followed by her children (all clad in little Thom Browne suits). With each passing moment of Coon’s boomingly serious voice, the montage of decadent looks slowly flowed through the moody winterscape.

In tow was Browne’s signature tailoring, which came in both classic structured and warped silhouettes. Making the moment, you’ll find a panelled off-the-shoulder tweed overcoat paired with a black pencil dress. Next up, a remixed tuxedo that thrusts the classic style into Browne’s unorthodoxly forward-thinking world. The collection was almost entirely tossed in black, white and grey, which continues the American designer’s commitment to monochromatic themes that force the eye on what matters most, the garment design. Further nodding to the poem, select garments from overcoats to dresses embedded with black raven motifs.

Moreover, the collection truly dissected traditional black-tie tailoring with layering and “cinched” proportions; grungy elements like distressed leather jackets were juxtaposed with formal corsetry and, on occasion, floral notes. While, textures throughout were rich, slick and sinuous!