Officewear makes a quiet return for Autumn/Winter 2024 – this time with a softened edge. For FD Persoonlijk’s fashion issue, I styled a shopping trend page that reflects this shift in tone and silhouette, where tailoring meets ease and structure feels calm.
Runway Highlights
This season’s take on boardroom chic AW24 replaces boxy shoulders and rigid palettes with rounded cuts, fluid lines, and a colour story of powder hues, soft greys, berry reds, purples, and deep royal blue. It’s a move away from power dressing as armour – toward presence and individuality.
Key references include Dries Van Noten’s final collection, where soft tailoring met emotive clarity, and Fendi, where Kim Jones and Silvia Venturini Fendi delivered a quietly elevated vision for men’s wardrobes. These designers showed how authority can feel gentle, precise, and deeply modern.
The editorial page I created for FD Persoonlijk brings these elements together in a focused overview – designed to inspire both menswear and womenswear styling. A wearable take on this trend. Clean, considered, and ready to wear.
As we shift towards SS25, the silhouette continues to evolve – into hybrid tailoring, relaxed workwear, and redefined codes of confidence. But for now, AW24 offers us a more nuanced kind of power.
Image credit:
Trend Styling by Im Fong Liu for FD Persoonlijk, AW24 issue
Photography runway, courtesy of designers.
Acknowledgement:
Special thanks to Michou Basu, Fashion & Style Director at FD Persoonlijk, for the opportunity.
