Fashion may be a multibillion-dollar, sprawling, ecocidal and controversial industry, but it loves to make us dream, often with poetry, to try to make us forget it. Some designers also stand out as artists, like Thom Browne.
In addition to serving as president of the CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America) since 2022, he is one of the few to have already been invited to participate in the official Parisian haute couture calendar, proof of his exceptional know-how which he also knows how to deploy in his ready-to-wear. As demonstrated by his latest fashion show for autumn-winter 2024-2025, presented as part of New York Fashion Week on February 14, 2024.
Thom Browne’s autumn-winter 2024-2025 show, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
Born in 1965, the American designer created his eponymous men’s ready-to-wear brand in 2004, and for some time now has extended it with rigor and extravagance to the women’s world too. For the next season, Thom Browne took inspiration from the narrative poem “ The Raven » by Edgar Allan Poe, which our dear Baudelaire translated into French with the title « Crow “.
Thus, while the actress Carrie Coon (Tony Awards in 2012 for her performance in Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?) declaimed this text, the sharply tailored silhouettes paraded around an immense black dress inflated to the limit in the center of the snow-covered square stage. Some looks looked like they had been scratched by crows, when they weren’t already made up of houndstooth or roosters’ feet, or bird footprints, demonstrating his (somewhat first-rate) sense of storytelling.
When the drama is in the service of sewing, instead of masking the lack of know-how, that’s when we know we’re dealing with real expertise and not a marketing balloon, as we see too often during fashion weeks …
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Mary Crossley is an author at “The Fashion Vibes”. She is a seasoned journalist who is dedicated to delivering the latest news to her readers. With a keen sense of what’s important, Mary covers a wide range of topics, from politics to lifestyle and everything in between.
