Fall 2024 Trend Report

As the weather starts to cool, hemlines lengthen, inviting a new season of richer fabrics and creative layers. In the spirit of change, these three fall fashion trends are transformative and ephemeral. Enjoy!

For our first fall fashion trend, we look to one-of-a-kind designer, Iris van Herpen’s latest couture capsule which didn’t feature models in dress so much as living artworks, or “aerial sculptures,” as the singular Dutch designer dubbed it.

Her looks were amorphic, reminiscent of nature’s sculptural beauties found in the shapes of shells, insects, or clouds. In the video below, legendary
Lebanese-Italian couturier Tony Ward brings his namesake as the “architect of detail” to the forefront in whimsical, sweeping confections.

On the red carpet, model Emily Ratajkowski glowed in a vintage chartreuse slip from Gucci featuring textured tassels to accentuate the silhouette’s playful proportions. Similarly, though this time in a goddess white, actress Naomi Ackie turned heads in a cascading Loewe dress with elegant Grecian folds.

Sheer fabrics embody the best of fall style: easy, adaptable, and breezy. For his couture collection, Giambattista V alli used sheer tulles and accents like they were dollops of whipped cream, or an autumnal breeze. Florals in maple reds and dusky blues were dramatized by bunches of overlays that billowed as models sauntered down the runway, wrapping and falling around the models like earthy, romantic silhouettes.

Model extraordinaire Bella Hadid recently took this fall fashion trend for a whirl in a mum-colored Zuhair Murad gown with delicate, gauzy accents that felt feminine, primal, and delicate. If Hadid’s look was angelic, actress Morfydd Clark’s gown was delightfully devilish. Her Rodarte number featured a statement bodice thanks to thoughtfully placed sheer outlays which gave way to her sweeping, voluminous raven-black skirt.

For your ballroom dance dress rentals, try out gowns with see-through elements along the hemline or bodice, as well as sweeping tulle or lace additions that will spin and twirl right along with you, accenting the grace and power in your own movements.

A symbol of change and transition denotes our final fall fashion trend: the monarch butterfly. Known for their admirable particularity (the enchanting creatures will only lay their eggs on specific plants known as milkweeds), the monarch stands for determination and beauty. The creatures often travel for one hundred miles a day during their two-month migration. That unassuming power is captured in designer Robert Wun’s fall collection, which meditated on the nature of time. As if by magic, the London-based and Hong Kong-born designer wove 3-D butterflies into his gowns, so effortlessly—in part thanks to a fashion technique reminiscent of kintsugi, the Japanese art of melding with golf—that the little bugs appeared to be flitting and flapping, metamorphosized and animated with sudden aliveness.

The actresses Chase Sui Wonders and Lupita Nyong’o offered lively interpretations of the trend. Wonders dazzled in a golden ochre Miu Miu two-piece set that featured gilded embroidery of foliage flapping in the autumn wind. And Nyong’o shone in a sleek, monarch-hued, outfit from the mind of German designer Dorothee Schumacher.

To translate this trend into your wardrobe, on and off the dance floor, find looks in bold, sumptuous shades of sunflower or marigold, perhaps punctuated with black accessories or detailing to truly embrace the monarch’s majestic transience.