If Autumn/Winter 2024 beauty trends have taught me anything it's that the catwalk is king once more. Throughout my long career as a beauty editor, I have committed my every waking minute for two months of the year, every year, to fashion month. Throughout the months of February and September, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep, I analyse beauty looks on the catwalks. It has, historically, been this insight that qualifies me to call upcoming hair trends, make-up trends and nail trends before they become, well, trends.
And yet, in recent years I have been feeling as though the catwalk is less and less influential on the beauty trends I was seeing fabricate. As catwalk beauty got more avant garde, we started turning to social media for our inspiration—I became worried that the catwalk was losing its power. But this season? Just as we started to become collectively fatigued by the short-lived, overhyped, fast beauty trends of TikTok, the Autumn/Winter 2024 catwalks showed us that classic beauty is making a comeback.
