“There is nothing new except what is forgotten,” Marie Antoinette's dressmaker Rose Bertin is said to have told her. Approximately 300 years later, her feelings still remain the same. Let's take a look at this season's dress trends. Inspired by the '90s, the voluminous style may have been at the forefront of fashion's collective consciousness for the past few years (no doubt thanks to a deep-seated desire for comfort during lockdown), as if New or “forgotten” silhouettes seem to be making their presence felt both on and off the runway. And it just so happens that there's something decidedly Antoinette-esque about the dress in question.
16 Arlington Spring/Summer 2024.
With its dropped waistline, bustling gathers at the hips, corset-inspired bust, and unadorned fabric, the dress is an unusual hybrid of a kind of minimalist A-line and girlish “milkmaid” style. is. 16Arlington led the way on the Spring/Summer 2024 catwalks with his drop-waist cotton dress that turned heads, and this dress has since been worn not once but twice by Alexa Chung in her two different materials. Ta. Talk about a stamp of approval.
Perhaps it's no surprise that Vivienne Westwood's Andreas Kronthaler also bet on hip-enhancing silhouettes. At the brand's Spring/Summer 2024 show, Irina Sheikh Sasay was spotted walking the runway in a dramatic off-white silk dress. The dress was styled with her ribbon-embellished flats and embellished circular sunnies. It somehow managed to be extroverted and elegant at the same time.