This month’s edition did not disappoint, and many of these brands put forward their best foot to bring out stellar Spring/Summer women’s collections to welcome 2025. Interpretations of femininity and a tendency to reimagine heritage silhouettes were at the forefront of many shows, unveiling looks that tick both boxes of legacy and contemporary.
Louis Vuitton
As one of the closing shows of Paris Fashion Week, Louis Vuitton’s Women’s Spring/Summer 2025 show revolves around the idea of fashion as a ‘soft power’ – the oxymoron represents the contrast between softness and power. The duality and the seeming push-and-pull between opposite ideals create constant movement while interrogating the harmony that arises from contradictions. The final few looks of the collection integrate the art of Laurent Grasso, creating pieces that are literally wearable art.
Loewe
Loewe explored radical restraint for the men’s SS25 collection revealed earlier this year. Now for the women’s collection, radical reduction takes centre stage. Stripping away everything to focus on the lines and the silhouette, what remains is a curvaceous flow, its structure reduced to draped movements and cropped curves. Loewe also debuts its newest bag, the Madrid, named in homage to the brand’s home city, while the season’s Puzzle bag is introduced in soft, light, and squishy leather. Another classic – the Ballet Runners sneakers – returns in high-top form.
Balenciaga
Summer 2025 from maison Balenciaga took place on an elongated banquet table as creative director Demna brings us into his original vision of fashion, rooted in memories of cardboard cut looks paraded on a kitchen table runway. The collection features ‘superlowaist’ bootcut jeans, bustier and corset-like silhouettes, and deconstructed archetypes on the garments and leather goods.
Chanel
An oversized birdcage left open in the Grand Palais set the stage for the Chanel Spring/Summer 2025 show. Based on a miniature objet originally found in Gabrielle Chanel’s apartment, the collection uses the image of a cage to contrast the themes of lightness, delicacy, movement, and freedom. Chiffon capes, slit skirts, wide-cut trousers, open-knit dresses, and trench coats with light-as-air feathers invite guests to spread their wings and fly in pursuit of their individuality.
Hermès
Practical yet sensual, and daringly modern, Hermès brings their interpretation of a multifaceted femininity to the runway. A collection in neutrals, interspersed with a pop of burgundy, or a splash of geometric motifs. Soft yet solid leather gracefully covers silk mesh and contrasts denim. Second-skin-like pieces along with versatile outerwear, all combine to create a collection unlike any other.
Christian Dior
Fierce, athletic, Amazonian – Spring/Summer at Dior is all about contemporary femininity. Maria Grazia Chiuri’s exploration of the maison’s legacy and effort to bring fashion back to its roots sees her reinterpreting cuts from Dior’s archives, particularly here with the Amazone dress from autumn-winter 1951-1952. Playing with the contrast of black and white, the collection creates a resolutely graphic line between the past and the present, with open necklines, form-fitting body suits, and unrestrictive forms – all looks that put the athletic shape at the forefront of what the modern woman and contemporary femininity look like.
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