Couture Fashion Week is perhaps one of the most exciting of all the fashion weeks. Filled with hand-sewn, expertly crafted garments that are as much works of art as they are clothing. It showcases the highest level of craftsmanship, creativity, and imagination in the fashion world. Every detail, from the intricate embroidery to the luxurious fabrics, speaks to hundreds of hours of meticulous labour and will go on to be sold to the brands most affluent customers. This season, Couture Fashion Week brings the Fall 2025 collections. It’s a compact schedule but one that will have plenty of moments to look out for.

Favourites including Schiaparelli and Chanel kick start the week as well as Giorgio Armani, Iris Van Herpen, and Elie Saab. Denma will present his final collection as Creative Director of Balenciaga, while Belgian designer Glenn Martens will make his debut for Maison Margiela.

Read on for the best of Couture Fashion Week Fall 2025, updated daily…

Elie Saab

Images Courtesy of Elie Saab

Elie Saab’s latest Haute Couture collection, La Nouvelle Cour, channels the spirit of a modern-day queen – audacious, elegant, and unapologetically feminine. With sculptural silhouettes and rich detailing, the collection fuses opulence with attitude. Show stopping corsets in velvet and metallics evoke bold seduction, while dramatic moiré sheaths and gowns in macaron pastels contrast with regal black and gold. Embroidered florals, oversized bows, and feathered finishes add layers of romance and mystery. The collection culminates in a pearl-toned bridal finale, affirming Saab’s vision of couture as a realm ruled by pleasure, power, and grace.

Viktor & Rolf

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Viktor & Rolf’s Autumn/Winter 2025 Haute Couture collection is a bold exploration of duality, presenting 15 identical garment pairs, one exuberantly feathered, the other featherless. The voluminous, sculptural looks, crafted from colourful, fabric-based faux feathers, contrast with their minimal, fluid counterparts, revealing the tension between spectacle and subtlety, presence and absence. Inspired by themes of transcendence and past collections, the duo transforms feathers from ornament into architecture. Completed with Stephen Jones hats and Christian Louboutin heels, the collection redefines fantasy and introspection in couture, making the conceptual intimately wearable.

Rahul Mishra

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Rahul Mishra’s Becoming Love Haute Couture collection explores the seven Sufi stages of love, from attraction to selfless surrender through poetic silhouettes and rich craftsmanship. Drawing inspiration from Gustav Klimt, the designs feature intricate hand embroidery using aari, zardozi, and kundan, applied to silk organza, tulle, and velvet. Sculptural forms incorporate artisanal metalwork, highlighting the work of nearly 2,000 craftspeople. Collaborating with Stephen Jones on veils and headpieces, the collection becomes a dreamlike ode to love, devotion, and the spiritual dissolution of self, bridging Indian heritage with global couture storytelling.

Giorgio Armani Privé

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The Giorgio Armani Privé Fall Couture collection is a masterful study of black. Not as absence, but as a full spectrum of elegance, seduction, and timeless form. Armani explores the tension between masculine and feminine through reimagined tuxedos, sculptural jackets worn against bare skin, and sharp blazers paired with bow ties and slim trousers. Flowing gowns with vibrant embroidered inserts give way to long, sinuous dresses adorned with oversized bows, sheer plastrons, and pavé crystal cuffs. Through velvet, metallic silks, and luminous linings, black becomes a radiant, nuanced language of refined duality.

Schiaparelli

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The Schiaparelli Fall Couture collection reflects on the contrasting legacies of Gabrielle Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli. Chanel as the liberator of the female form, and Schiaparelli as the visionary who treated fashion as art. Inspired by Elsa’s 1940 departure from Paris, the collection explores a post-future vision rooted in surrealism and elegance. Key designs include the diamanté “Apollo” cape, a shell-embroidered tulle gown, matador-style jackets encrusted with pearls and beads, and the “Eyes Wide Open” dress with hand-painted iris motif. Each merging historical references with conceptual reinvention.

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