Marine Serre's FW25 Show Was Right on the Money
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...
Kiko Mizuhara Walks the Runway at Paloma Wool FW25
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...
Valentino Took Over a Public Toilet for Paris Fashion Week
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...
Everything You Need To Know About Paris Fashion Week FW25 So Far
Paris Fashion Week is back for the Fall/Winter 2025 season with a whopping total of 109 shows and presentations. The industry has its eyes set on big debuts -- from Sarah Burton's Givenchy to Alessandro Michele's next runway collection for Valentino. Elsewhere, Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran of Matières Fécales unveiled the first showcase of their joint fashion label and LOEWE will present a presentation in place of a traditional runway format.Showcases so far include Vaquera's Am...