From Home

Fashion Month exalted the mundane for Spring/Summer '24. Housewares were uplifted with veneration as home objects endured creative exercises to transcend their intended uses and take on new roles as objet d'art.

- Vanessa Grace Ng

Fashion Month has never been shy to lean into the provocative or evocative. Across the fashion capitals of New York, London, Milan and Paris, shows are consistently theatrical and statement-forward - pushing whatever agenda a house's creative director deems should be the message for the season.

Past seasons have seen radical runway stunts in the shape of sprayed-on dresses or collapsing models, dress and sets - as per Coperni and AVAVAV's modus operandi, respectively. By way of more than just the formulaic - albeit successful stardom-plus-collaboration draw, provocation revealed itself this season in perhaps what can be considered the most mundane.

Prosaic items received a new lease of life as designers turned to surrealist inventions. An effectual code in drawing eyeballs — Elsa Schiaparelli did it first with a trompe l’oeil signature — surrealist tendencies have long persisted in fashion.