Wales Bonner is best known for blending menswear and womenswear with pieces that carry an effortlessly androgynous beauty. And the Fall/Winter 2025 season is no different – but with one rather major change. For the first time ever, Grace Wales Bonner is presenting her womenswear line independently.Presented as a lookbook, shot by Zoë Ghertner and styled by Camilla Nickerson, the collection feels fresh. Luxe pieces like fringed dresses and satin skirts exude effortless luxury, while inky black...
Marine Serre returned to the runway for the Fall/Winter 2025 season of Paris Fashion Week, inviting guests to the La Monnaie de Paris -- a historic venue that quite literally produces France's money. A unique juxtaposition for a young and independent designer, the location aimed to represent Serre's resistance "in a world run by financial dictates."In keeping with the financial theme, guests sat on seats complete with boxed gold coins, stamped with Serre's profile on one side and the signature c...
Paloma Wool presented its Fall/Winter 2025 collection during Paris Fashion Week this season, transporting guests to the Lycée Henri-IV library. Individual reading lights illuminated seats, each emblazoned with the initials P.W. on them and paired with a short passage of text from Ursula Kroeber Le Guin's novel, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.Exploring themes of expression, identity and memory, the collection aimed to unpack "who we are and how we relate to the world," through fabric manipul...
Looking at the concept of intimacy, Valentino transported guests to an unlikely venue this Paris Fashion Week season, hosting its Fall/Winter 2025 showcase in... a public toilet. For creative director Alessandro Michele, themes of vulnerability, truth and intimacy collided, providing his starting point for the collection."Is it possible to think of intimacy as an access to a profound core of truth as opposed to the masks that mass society imposes on us?" this season's show notes begin. Michele t...