Over the past week, fashion enthusiasts tuned into the streets and runways of New York City to catch the industry’s upcoming trends. And this year’s New York Fashion Week confirmed the resurgence of fashion’s “boss b*tch” era. From dramatic shoulders and structured pantsuits to tailored silhouettes designed to transition from the office to evenings out, the Fall/Winter 2024 collections suggested that fashion, at least, might be straying away from the “soft life trend.”
Last year, the often hyper-feminine social media trend encouraged a collective desire to lead a more stress-free lifestyle, which inherently trickled into the year’s fashion trends (aka “Barbiecore,” “ballet-core,” etc.). However, this year, designers are taking the fashion-forward — especially women — back into the office with their Fall/Winter collections. Black fashion creatives like Sergio Hudson, LaQuan Smith, Bishme Cromartie, and Rachel Scott each shared their own interpretations of the corporate chic trend, garnering comparisons to strong-but-sexy female archetypes like the character Jacqueline Broyer in the 1992 film “Boomerang,” a reported inspiration for designer Sergio Hudson’s F/W ’24 collection.
“I’m designing for a very particular woman who wants to be the center of attention — who is in command, who is the boss of her own life and sort of has this female empowerment aura around her,” Smith explained per WWD. “Everything is still quite sexy — it’s just very much she’s leveled up.”
“I want women to feel like superheroes,” Hudson said of his design aesthetic.
In addition to the appearance of bold, structured designs, power colors like chartreuse and shades of red dominated the NYFW runways and are predicted to be some of the hottest colors this fall. Among the fashion enthusiasts attending NYFW were stars like Beyoncé, Janet Jackson, Queen Latifah and more. See more of this season’s…
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