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What to Expect on the Red Carpets During Awards Season 2024

If red carpet stylists had their way, awards season 2024 would be a joyous celebration of emerging designers, diverse talent and archival looks with an underlining note of thoughtfulness regarding the state of fashion. But, there are brand partnerships at play, new collections to promote and sponsors to keep happy. Hollywood’s wardrobes become Tetris puzzles, as celebrity dressers navigate samples, alterations and custom commissions, while keeping in mind both the couture and ready-to-wear trends and incorporating some semblance of sustainability in line with the industry’s commitment to do better for our planet. A dress is never just a dress during awards season.

If this sounds like an impossible tick-boxing exercise, there will be overarching themes at play at the Golden Globes, SAG Awards and Oscars, as stylists fall for the same buzzy designers, directional silhouettes and whimsical embellishments that chime with the current mood, but have lasting impact. Vogue picked the brains of three heavyweight dressers to find out what we can expect from the nominees and guests on film’s big nights in 2024.

Fashion, darling

The SAG-AFTRA strike turned the “fashion space into an art form”, argues Holly White, who dresses emerging stars, like Heartstopper’s Joe Locke. Explainer: in the absence of premieres, celebs turned out to shows, dinners and store events in outfits otherwise reserved for big California moments. As such, there was more experimentation, which will now trickle onto the world’s stage.

Take Sienna Miller’s quirky bump-revealing Schiaparelli moment at Vogue World: London. Undoubtedly one of the looks of the year, masterminded by stylist Harry Lambert, the fabulous white crop top and bubble skirt perhaps wouldn’t have previously found their way to the Academy Awards, but catapulted pure fashion drama to the top of conversations. After being starved of red-carpet wear in the latter part of 2023, expect awards show attendees to dream big. Come January, people will especially be leaning on the new guard – Sabato de Sarno at Gucci, Peter Hawkings at Tom Ford and Chemena Kamali at Chloé – and looking at the modern house visions set to define the year in fashion.

Disco 2024

“If there is a time to shine, it’s on the red carpet,” asserts White. “Metallics will reign and spring 2024 brought some modern silhouettes to the runway that will give this somewhat consistent trend a contemporary and updated look.” Watch out, she says, for Paco Rabanne, Alexander McQueen and Ralph Lauren.

Zadrian Smith, who styles Ariana DeBose, agrees: “That Ralph Lauren look on Christy Turlington was killer.” His other predictions, which goes hand in hand with sheeny-shiny fabrications? Sheerness and fringing. “The flapper girl is making a comeback in a big way,” notes Smith, citing heavy embellishment and relaxed silhouettes as key signifiers of the ’20s revival (keep an eye on The Attico, Prada, Jil Sander and Givenchy). On the flip side, micro hemlines will keep the after-party scene looking disco fabulous (Gucci and Tom Ford, we’re looking at you).

Fashion Trends 2024: Millennial Pink & 9 Other Runway Looks For The Real World

Ever since the skinny jeans debate, there seems to be underlying online animosity between millennials and Gen Z. For the most part, the divide is trivial—many of the millennial-loved trends of the ‘90s have been reborn for the TikTok generation and practically everyone is wearing ballet flats again. The younger group managed to make millennial moments a trendier, cooler part of their identity—and for the record, I fall directly between the two age groups and take no sides. However, while Gen Z may be able to add their stamp of approval to a trend, they aren’t necessarily the ones behind the trend’s creation, and the fashion trends for 2024 presented during Fashion Month prove it.

As I watched the Spring/Summer ‘24 collections make their way down the runway, I couldn’t help but swoon over a particular soft shade of pink sprinkled throughout the designer’s shows. Tory Burch, Carolina Herrera, and Sandy Liang presented pink mini dresses, pink gowns, and pink bow bags (all of which I quickly declared my favorite pieces). It dawned on me that the reason I loved them so much was because the pieces weren’t just any shade of pink, they were Millennial Pink. The shade that defined my entire existence from 2014-2017 suddenly doesn’t seem so “cheugy” anymore. The millennials are getting their power back.

Could a color revival really tip the power scales? Probably not—but if you add a few snippets of commentary from New York Fashion Week, you might get somewhere.

During New York Fashion Week a controversial fashion show for Shao Yang was held on the rooftop of Anna Delvey’s apartment and was co-hosted by Delvey herself—a convenient location considering she’s a convicted felon and still under house arrest. What’s more millennial than a girl-boss-turned-scammer trope?

Delvey was joined on the rooftop by famed publicist Kelly Cutrone who helped put on the event. Cutrone was asked what she would consider “in” and “out” this fashion week in a viral TikTok video (ironic, considering her response).

“One thing that’s in is the motherf*cking truth. One thing that’s out is influencers,” Cutrone responded.

Cutrone is known to have strong opinions and quite a bit of influence herself. If influencers are “out”, that’s another strike against Gen Z.

The nail in the coffin on Gen Z’s trend domination? I’ll give you a second to guess—side parts. When I went backstage before the STAUD debut runway show at The Plaza Hotel, I was surprised to see model after model with a strong side part.

Through a cloud of TRESemmé hairspray, I asked celebrity hair artist, Renato Campora, if side parts were coming back.

“Completely,” Campora replied as he brushed his hands through a model’s long side-parted hair. “A side part, a middle part, or wearing your hair back is a question of changing [your hair] to match your look. A side part is beautiful and opens up the neck.”

As I watched the models saunter down the runway with their side parts and chic long blue STAUD skirts, I felt myself self-consciously adjusting my middle part. Whether you’re a millennial, Gen Z, somewhere in-between (like me), or don’t even fall into one of the categories, you’ll want to get an early read on the biggest fashion trends for 2024.

Keep reading for nine trends that may lead to generational peace.

At Milan Fashion Week, Designers Offer Visions for the Future

The Milan Fashion Week collections ended on Sunday with a guest appearance by American designer Tommy Hilfiger, whose race car runway set a new speed-to-market record for fast fashion. There was a pop-up shop constructed right in the middle of the track. But even before that, there were several examples in Milan of designers who are cleverly adapting to a world where turmoil has become commonplace, and consumers need new reasons to buy.

Francesco Risso’s Marni collection on Sunday morning was one of the highlights of the week (some were calling it the best show of Milan), with its combination of weird sweeping-bell silhouettes and quirky cat prints on voluminous coats. I’m quite sure a lot of street style stars are currently trying to get their paws on the pink one, and I’d place a bet on seeing someone wearing it in Paris. Laminated raincoats in bright blue and green brought lively pops of color throughout the show, and many dresses were spliced together with crude stitches, suggesting they had been recycled from the scraps of discarded garments.

The setting played with the theme of production, and the environmental problems associated with over-production, which are especially visible in fashion. Guests found themselves sitting on benches made of piles of old clothes, bags of blazers, bales of dress shirts, undergarments bagged in plastic, or stacks of old newspapers, which could easily be read as Risso’s acknowledgement that all of this—while great today—will soon be yesterday’s news.

Lucie and Luke Meier, the excellent new designers at Jil Sander, were more explicit in their intent to create clothes for modern times. Their padded coats incorporated attachable blankets, and nomadic models carried pillows and duvets, accessories that were both comforting and a little frightening. If we get to the point where we literally have to survive with the clothes off our backs, I doubt anyone is going to be worried about doing so stylishly or in a multi-thousand dollar coat. But they were fabulous, nevertheless, and will make wonderful conversation pieces for the most discerning of socially conscious customers.

RUNWAY REPORT.....Paris Fashion Week: Alexander McQueen Spring 2018

WHAT: Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2018. Creative Director for Alexander McQueen Sarah Burton's new Spring/Summer collection shown in Paris Fashion Week.

INSPIRATION: The gardens of Great Dixter (above), the family home of gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd, was the main inspiration for Sarah Burton and her design team. There were also the very McQueen touches of Medieval, Punk and semi-deconstructed beauty.

Flower Corsets: Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2018

Modern Trench: Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2018

TRENDS: Oversized jackets; trench coats; tea-length/midi dresses; plaid punk; flower applique; tulle dresses; brocade.

Collection Highlights:

Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2018

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RUNWAY REPORT.....Paris Fashion Week: Saint Laurent Spring 2018

WHAT: Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2018. Saint Laurent (yes, the same as YSL, Yves Saint Laurent, etc.) Creative Director Anthony Vaccarello (he, of the UBER SEXY leather mini dresses adored by the SUPER SKINNY Supermodels), showed his latest collection for the famed French fashion house at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. You cannot get any more French than that...

Under the Eiffel Tower: Saint Laurent Spring 2018

INSPIRATION: "That girl of Saint Laurent--she wants to have fun!", according to Vaccarello. The collection was a Fashion Journey through the Yves Saint Laurent Girl--from Safari and Marrakech to see-through eroticism to Haute Couture Pouf Fabulousness....

Then & Now:

Feathered Beauty: (L to R) Yves Saint Laurent Spring/Summer Haute Couture 1979 and look from Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2018

Pouf YSL: (L to R) Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture 1988 and Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2018

Haute Lapel: (L to R) Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Fall/Winter 1980 "Poets and Shakespeare" Collection, and Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2018

L'Afrique: Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Fall/Winter 1990 as seen on Yves Saint Laurent Muse Guinea-born model Katoucha Niane, and Saint Laurent Spring 2018

See-Through Yves: Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture 1999 sheer blouse look as modeled by Karen Elson, and Saint Laurent Spring 2018

Collection Highlights:

Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2018

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RUNWAY REPORT.....Milan Fashion Week: Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 2018

WHAT: Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 2018. This was the 2nd show within 24 hours for Dolce & Gabbana. The 1st show was a "secret show" filled with millennials as models and clients as the audience (See video of the full show below). This second show had the millennials sitting front row and the theme was "Queen of Hearts". Based off of the universal topic of love, the designers used the actual Queen of Hearts from a deck of cards as a -not so subtle- inspiration and decorated everything from dresses to suiting with the Queens image.