Get an exclusive look at Thom Browne‘s innovative Fall 2024 couture fashion show from the runways of Paris Couture Fashion Week, held in June 2024.
Tailoring’s Maverick Takes on Classical Couture
Thom Browne’s second couture show was an homage to the artistic process told through the key ingredient in his own artistic process: tailoring. Across an almost entirely white and beige palette replete with muslin, the building block of sartorial creation, the designer recast hidden aspects of the suit making process into final masterpieces, pushing the concept of deconstruction in fashion to glorious new heights.
The began as the looks stepped down the runway on shoes the soles of which were studded with the eraser ends of pencils – a nod to sketching, the first stage of the design process. From here, Browne’s signature design elements were thrown into a ballet of controlled chaos; each look an asymmetrical amalgamation of fabrics – predominantly muslin – and tailoring techniques that nonetheless came together in a way that was completely harmonious. In addition to the suiting, Victorian dressmaking techniques also ran throughout the collection, with their structures reconsidered or inverted. Each model held an embroidery hoop on a stick with partially beaded faces – another theatrical nod to that idea of the work in progress.
