Ella Emhoff Kicks Off Fashion Week With a Major Sheer Moment

Knitter, model, and second stepdaughter of the United States Ella Emhoff attended a pre-Fashion Week Proenza Schouler show in New York City on September 4, 2024, and demonstrated that the sheer trend is far from over.

In her signature low-key style, the fashion fan wore a black knit top and matching pants, the weave open enough to let light through in silhouette. It’s see-through without being see-through, if that makes any sense. Emhoff accessorized with striped socks and black loafers—real Wednesday vibes, no?—plus narrow, slightly tinted eyeglasses, and a blue purse. If Hope Walz is a Midwest princess, then Ella is a Bushwick princess, queen of our hipster hearts.

You just know this girl has advance screening tickets to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

Emhoff previously flexed her style bona fides at the Democratic National Convention. Though she kept it pretty casual on night one, she showed up for night two in a Thom Browne suit and carrying the It bag of the moment, a cookie purse from up-and-coming brand Puppets and Puppets. Then on night three, to watch her “momala” accept the nomination, Emhoff wore a custom white gown that was the epitome of sophistication, made for her by…Joe Ando, the guy from TikTok who makes clothes! She probably could have called in favors from any couture house, but she chose a peer because Ella Emhoff is the People’s Influencer.

Ando, who lives in New York, was recently featured in Vogue Italia and told the publication, “For me, creating a dress means mixing my ideas with those of the person who commissions it, and the result is always personal and special.”