Final evening, Thom Browne’s fall 2024 present—which served as a dramatic nearer to New York Vogue Week—had all the celebs sitting front-row. Seulgi! Tierra Whack! Queen freakin’ Latifah! Sauntering in final, nonetheless, was worldwide celebrity Janet Jackson, who made a shock look for her one-and-only present this week. She induced the photographers mingling about within the crowd to go wild, capturing off their flashbulbs at fast pace.

Jackson—who attended Brown’s spring 2023 present in Paris again in 2022—tells Vogue that she is going to at all times make time in her busy schedule to absorb the designer’s new assortment. “I really like going to Thom’s reveals as a result of there’s at all times an unbelievable story that he tells, and that’s on high of all of his impressed designs,” she says. “Every garment that he confirmed might stand alone as a bit of artwork. The magic, the match, the craftsmanship; he by no means ceases to amaze me.”

After all, Jackson needed to convey her personal suave ensemble to the entrance row for the event. The star wore a protracted, tailor-made black blazer full with a basic white shirt and tie. She topped the look with a white lapel coat, and accessorized with a tweed briefcase and sky-high oxford platforms. The entire match was very on theme for a Thom present—and very worthy of an A-lister. “As soon as once more, he placed on an amazing present,” Jackson says of Browne’s theatrical presentation of his assortment, which nodded to the darkish world of American poet Edgar Allen Poe. “It was completely good; he’s one of many highest to ever do it. He’s a genius.”