Spring style brings to mind pink, tangerine, bright and sunny, white and mellow. Florals, not groundbreaking, but a spring staple. We all just tend to flow a bit more, calm down a little, and cheer up after the deep, dark winters that are a global staple now, regardless of geolocation. Spring, even dressed in black, is never serious. Spring in 2024, as imagined by designers at RTW Paris, is very serious indeed.

What about the spring that we have not seen yet puts the best fashion houses in the world in such a serious mind? Why do we see so much black, or white? What - and stay with us - is so gothic about Spring 2024, that it has to be spelt out with clothes?

At every show, even where you see an airier silhouette, a paler palette, or even a deceptively fun print; there was construction. Assuming that fashion echoes the mood of the hour, should we just prep for spring next year in a more streamlined fashion, fooling every eye with our capricious movement that has been cut and sewn to such specific shapes that if we look closer, we will be stunned by the artistry, edge, and the very defined boundaries drawn?

Or maybe, they’re just clothes, and we should stop looking at everything as a mood or a sign or what to expect when you’re expecting the worst.