Thom Browne debuted the fall 2024 women’s and men’s collections yesterday in New York. Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s famous poem, The Raven (1845), the show setting was immersive and theatrical (as we’ve come to expect from the designer). Onto an austere, wintery landscape, models emerged from a larger-than-life broken window pain. in the center of the snow-covered floor stood a model-turned-tree, its bark and roots taking form from puffer coat material. Thom Browne’s signature tailoring on suits and jackets was paired with particular styling, including gravity-defying hair and raven-covered hats, sometimes followed by a gaggle of children. The designer provided his own take on the iconic poem:
once upon a midnight dreary…
in a snow-clad field idle and eerie…
a tree stands amid the haze, shrouded in silk moiré…
a thirty-foot Chesterfield puffer…
the children come out from under…
eager to hear a grim, grim tale…
early in the twentieth century…
sem illustrated the silhouette…
now re-examined… deconstructed… exploded…
revealed in black and white…
