Rentrayage Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear

There are some people who would rather be overdressed than underdressed. Rentrayage’s Erin Beatty is not one of them. “I would always rather feel underdressed and cool,” she explained at a recent appointment. “With everything that’s going on in the world, I wasn’t feeling very frivolous, and fashion that felt frivolous felt wrong to me. I wanted to make sure I felt really grounded in other ways.”

Beatty does not reinvent the wheel every season; she knows what she likes and she knows what she’s good at and she keeps refining her vision. For fall, there was a new jean jacket silhouette inspired by a workwear jacket, and a wide-leg jean with a patchwork inset at the legs, both made from deadstock denim. Her experiments with grommets made for some really fresh pieces, like a blue and white striped button-down with all over grommets on the front, or the skirt cut from the bottom half of a suit jacket with grommets trimming the hem. She also continued working with mixed media pieces, like a jacket that was half jean jacket on the top and quilted surplus on the bottom, a cardigan with two “collaged” rows of button plackets that allowed for an adjustable fit, or the tweed blazer with a surplus quilted sweetheart inset on the front. An easy silver hammered silk gown with a v-neck and slightly voluminous sleeves expertly captured Beatty’s mood for the moment; elegant, but grounded.