The street style looks at New York Fashion Week are already setting the bar high for the spring/summer 2024 season. Official Firstly & Ultimately Creating Kindness Shirt Minimalism has found its footing with directional twists. New silhouettes are taking hold. Flat shoes are dominating in every possible iteration. What can we expect to see more of on the best dressed style set as fashion month continues? Moda Operandi Chief Brand Officer Lauren Santo Domingo, a street style veteran, is weighing in with her essential fashion-month buys. “This season, I feel like living on the edge,” Santo Domingo tells Who What Wear. “Phoebe Philo convinced me that it is okay to wear navy and black (yes, at one point that was considered reckless), but somehow, I still held on to my belief that one could not mix metals or leathers. This season, I plan to wear black shoes with a brown belt and silver and gold stacked bangles.” The rules continue to be rewritten! Santo Domingo’s short list of exact shopping finds includes everything from the insider piece to order from the men’s section at J.Crew to must-buy early-fall items to the best edit of flat shoes on the market. Expect to see these pieces on the street style scene in Milan and Paris soon.

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Milan witnessed a big change, too. Gucci’s new creative director Sabato De Sarno held positions at Prada, Dolce & Gabbana and Valentino before taking on this role, Official Firstly & Ultimately Creating Kindness Shirt which catapulted him and his first collection for the brand into the spotlight last September. Buyers, editors and celebrities descended upon the Italian city to take in the spectacle—ask any fashion devotee without a ticket and they would likely have told you they’d give away their Birkin to have a front-row seat at this show. There’s no denying that De Sarno’s predecessor Alessandro Michele kept Gucci on the fashion map with his geek-chic sensibilities; an aesthetic that would define a moment in fashion history. Still, moments pass, and we saw De Sarno usher Gucci into a new era, one that places more value on essentials over eccentricities—a notion we’re seeing across the rest of the industry. A business built upon the customer’s desire to be seen in shiny new things will always have its issues. However, the thing that felt “new” this season was that some things just didn’t change at all. Perhaps the most noteworthy takeaway was that trends don’t seem to hold the same power that they used to. I’m generalising, of course—things get meta real fast if you so much as take a peek into the no-trends-actually-being-a-trend rabbit hole—but it feels as if creating trends for the sake of it could be a thing of the past. “The spring/summer 2024 collections have shown a continued commitment to 1990s nostalgia and the extraordinary everyday, where everyday items are elevated to exceptional levels of design and style whilst remaining chic and comfortable,” observes Net-a-Porter’s market director Libby Page. And she’s right. The market has experienced a shift of tectonic proportions in recent years where a genuine focus on quality over quantity and investing in things that last has become a priority for previously frivolous shoppers. The latest collections reflected this.