Paris Fashion Week has kicked off with the Spring Summer 2025 shows. New York, London, and Milan have already wrapped for this season, but some of the fashion industry’s biggest brands are yet to showcase their latest collections. So, if you are not ready to kiss goodbye to the SS25 runway just yet, don’t worry there’s still a whopping nine days left of shows in Paris.
This season will feature some of fashion’s most beloved names. Most notably, Alessandro Michele will hold his much-anticipated debut runway show for Valentino on September 29th, marking his return to fashion after the designer exited Gucci back in November 2022. All eyes will also be on Dries van Noten – the first show since the departure of the eponymous designer, as well as Chanel where we are still awaiting on an announcement of the new creative director.
Other big names to show this season include Dior, Acne Studios, Courrèges, Rabanne, Saint Laurent, and Loewe.
Here is a round-up of the highlights of Paris Fashion Week Spring Summer 2025, updated as and when the collections unfold…
Victoria Beckham
This season, Victoria Beckham celebrates the intimate relationship we have with our clothes. The designer her exploration of the wardrobe not only as a space in which we dress but where we undress, too. Examining this daily ritual familiar to every woman across styles and self-expressions, the collection observes the physical relationship between skin and garment.
The collection plays with expressions of exposure. Between formality and nakedness, one-third of the construction of tailored jackets is hacked off while trousers are slashed open across the front, creating windows to the skin. Bodies cut along the hip bone and matched to the wearer’s skin tone imitate nudity while knitted lace rompers create a naked idea of a fully-covered torso. The silhouettes took their cue from the body, amplifying the sensuality of the body’s movement, while other pieces were superimposed away from the body, mimicking the way we hold up a garment in the mirror.
The green silk Atonement-like dress was one of the standouts from the collection. It has been shared everywhere on social media since the show and conveniently is the only piece from the collection that is already available to buy from VictoriaBeckham.com.
Images Courtesy of Victoria Beckham
Giambattista Valli
Valli is the master of creating romantic gowns that exude feminine elegance, and this collection was no different. The inspiration behind the collection was Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being and the concept of “le poids de la légèreté”, “the weight of lightness”. A thought provoking concept that engages with the paradox between lightness, freedom, insignificance, transience, and weight, responsibility, significance, and permanence.
Valli’s signature couture silhouettes were seen throughout, but with a more versatile approach for ready-to-wear. Cocoon dresses, and trapeze skirts in poplin, cotton organza, and jersey, adhered to the lightness that inspired the collection. While hemlines that alternated between short and ankle-grazing kept it fresh and dynamic. The colour palette was nothing short of exquisite, which is exactly what is to be expected from a Giambattista Valli collection. Bright yellows and rich burgundy were mixed in with pastels whilst rosettes embellished necklines and fringe decorated hems.
“My obsession with beauty is a result of always working in the future and the future always has to
be better than the past. I want to create the feeling of the sun always shining on one’s face” he said. “We can all work towards a better future, if we want to ”
Images Courtesy of Giambattista Valli
Schiaparelli
For its Ready-to-Wear Spring-Summer 2025 collection, Schiaparelli continues to invent an essential and timeless wardrobe for women with its couture approach to design while experimenting with this season’s inspirations. Bright, loud colours, that look like they’ve come straight out of a Mondrian painting, animal prints, light fabrics, simple, airy shapes: these are the keys to making this collection relevant.
The iconic Schiaparelli knitwear is now in an original and lightweight version. There are knit piques and featherweight ribs in pearlescent shades. For this collection Schiaparelli does what Schiaparelli does best, creating trick-of-the-eye menswear archetypes—the tank top, the tennis polo, and the white pique button down—all inset with invisible stretch corsets to glorifying the female form.
As for bags, the classic Secret bag with its emblematic Padlock clasp and the latest Schiap bag, have been reimagined, in new shades and colours, while still staying true to the Maisons timeless codes, such as the measuring tape, the keyhole, and the newest key charm.
Images Courtesy of Schiaparelli
Dior
For Dior’s latest womenswear ready-to-wear collection, Maria Grazia Chiuri once again focused on creating clothing that is both for, and inspired by, empowered women. The 2024 Olympics, held in Paris earlier this year, was a clear inspiration for this Spring Summer collection and one which demonstrated Chiuri’s commitment to championing women. SAGG Napoli, an artist who uses archery in her work, was even asked to perform in the catwalk space.
With this collection, Chiuri aims to bring fashion back to its origins and emphasise the relationship between the body and what dresses it. With this in mind, she has assembled and reinterpreted cuts from the archives, starting with the Amazone dress dreamed up by Christian Dior for autumn-winter 1951-1952, a dress the symbolises – ‘a strength of spirit, a reference point for the notion of an autonomous, courageous femininity’. For the rest of the line, Chiuri plays on the contrast between black and white: checks, horizontal and vertical traits celebrate the Miss Dior logo, allongated to the extreme. White pieces, such as shirts, are paired with black skirts, pants and dresses, while the bright red accents of the bomber jackets serve as a counterpoint.
Images Courtesy of Dior