NY Fashion Week takeaway trends

Are we finally done with the 1990s and 2000s? What materials will be in vogue next winter? What will be the star colour?

As 2024 gets underway, designers and major fashion houses are busy defining the fashion trends we‘ll be snapping up in a few months’ time. And it was New York that kicked off the festivities, unveiling a minimalist silhouette boosted by a few touches of bright colour, high-end fabrics and, once again, plenty of transparency.

Star piece: Dresses, dresses and more dresses.

The Big Apple put the dress firmly in the spotlight, but with no prevailing style. Dresses were everywhere. Seen with thin straps, long sleeves or in strapless styles, and with plain finishes or covered in sequins, transparent or embellished with cut-outs, dresses mostly followed the curves of the body.

Top two fabrics: Leather and fur

New York Fashion Week revived two materials that seemed to have been neglected in recent seasons: leather and, even more so, fur. Whether synthetic or natural, fur was clearly one of the stars of the runway shows, appearing mainly on coats or in small touches on jackets.

A trend seen at Michael Kors, Eckhaus Latta, Proenza Schouler and Ulla Johnson. However, most of these pieces made up only a tiny part of the new collections by the above-mentioned designers.

Leather, for its part, was an all-round favourite. It stood out for Ludovic de Saint Sernin, who made his New York debut with a tribute to Robert Mapplethorpe, but also at Coach and Helmut Lang, mostly in deep black.

Key colour: Red

The Big Apple didn’t exactly go in for bright, vibrant hues, but one colour did stand out: red. And that’s not surprising, considering that the colour of passion was recently named the star shade of 2024.