F Future fashion

This was the ethos of creative director Kim Jones’s exceptional Dior Men’s Summer 2024 collection. The house looked back at tweed, an integral fabric for Dior since the 1950s, but wanted to present it with new, ultra-tailored silhouettes, colors, and jeweled embellishments. “Dotted throughout the collection, we see these really intense, sparkling cabochon embroideries,” Jones also shares. “Something about Mr. Dior’s process, he was often inspired by the jewelry pieces.” Bespoke headwear, neon hues, and mirrored sunglasses added more futuristic touches, as did the presentation itself, during which the models appeared from beneath the silver grid-like floor by way of fiftyone motorized elevators. “I wanted it to be a clean box and almost like an art installation,” Jones says. “Art was an important part of Christian Dior’s life; he was a gallerist before he was a couturier.”

With the runways of Paris, Milan, and more beginning to show trends for spring 2024 and beyond, it seems the future is here with a nostalgic twist. Metallic fabrics and accents, bold accessories, solid primary colors, and space-age presentations are very in, according to some of the world’s biggest fashion houses. Let’s levitate into next season!

Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons went similarly architectural with their Prada Men’s Spring/Summer 2024 presentation. According to the fashion house, the robust collection proposes “an absolute freedom of the body, expressed through the foundations of the garments that clothe it.” Suits, raincoats, active sportswear, reporter jackets, and accessories paraded through an all-chrome set in Deposito of the Fondazione Prada art center in Milan. It evoked part spaceship, part retro-wave film locale. In addition to the futuristic notions of structure, function, and fluidity, evolution was a central theme. “These clothes are ultimately reflective of our natural state—the dynamic movement and constant transformation inherent to humanity.”