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Katie Holmes arrived in an oversized white button-down shirt with a full cream midi skirt, white pointed shoes and a black clutch. Beside her, Jason Bard Yarmosky continued the neutral palette in a cream sweater and wide striped trousers. The coordinating colors are noticeable without reading as matching costumes.
Holmes’s outfit is built almost entirely from volume. The shirt is long and relaxed, and the skirt is wide through the hem. Ordinarily, combining two oversized pieces can swallow the person wearing them. The tonal palette prevents that from happening here because the eye reads one long column instead of several competing blocks.
I would probably want either a slightly shorter shirt or a more visible waist for everyday wear, but I understand why the exaggerated proportion works in a Fashion Week setting. The black clutch is also necessary. Without that small interruption, the outfit might drift into bridal territory.
The common thread is not a particular color or designer. It is clarity. Storm Reid’s plaid dress has one strong pattern. Iman’s coat carries the texture. Viola Davis uses proportion and a tightly controlled brown palette. Cynthia Erivo builds everything around tailoring. Pamela Anderson commits to minimalism, while Katie Holmes commits to volume.
None of these women looks as though she is wearing every trend at once. That may be the most useful styling lesson to come out of Fashion Week: decide what the outfit is about, then remove anything that distracts from that idea.
The runway will always tell us what designers want fashion to become. The front row shows us what happens when those ideas meet an actual personality. This season, the celebrities who stood out were not necessarily the ones wearing the loudest clothes. They were the ones who made the clothes feel like their own.
