New Orleans Saints Short Sleeve Button Up Tropical Hawaiian Shirt VER026
Lightness was a theme stated in many spring/summer 2024 collection show notes, like Missoni, which featured a multitude of white and pastel sheer looks. The lightness of material and attitude was certainly evident, but the color palettes designers chose also played a role. Many designers opted for all-white looks, some crisp and minimalist, and others springy and playful.
Wrong. The year of quiet luxury will be 2024. The stealth wealth aesthetic has hit a cultural nerve by managing to align two apparently oppositional forces in fashion. Quiet luxury is, on the one hand, about timeless, investment-oriented dressing, which is a more sustainable take on style than burning through trends at a mile a minute, in the time of climate emergency. But it is also about clothes that have a powerful aura of money and status ? and money and status never go out of style.
Models ? a ?school of ravens,? as Browne?s show notes described them ? walked through a field seemingly covered in subtly-fragrant white ash powder representing snow; a model wearing a 30-foot-tall puffer jacket stood throughout, as if a tree. The collection 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. Textures throughout were rich, slick and sinuous.
This is a weird one, because two opposite things are true at once. The wellness industrial complex has become a cynical money-making machine and we are all therefore getting cynical about wellness as a word that is dangled in order to encourage us to buy stuff. But, at the same time, fitness, nutrition and mental health are important and real, and focusing on these is good, right? It?s complicated. In 2024, looking like you are going hiking will still be a thing (see: Birkenstocks, above), but taking selfies holding a green juice is starting to get tired.
With terms like vanilla girl, tomato girl, mob wife, and hot librarian being thrown around, it seems as if fashion is becoming more about cosplay than practicality right now, and that?s the fun part. If every item you wear becomes part of your character, that mindset can help make fashion less intimidating to some, and more exciting for others. All you have to ask is, ?Would a hot librarian wear this??
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