From Dior, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Saint Laurent and Hermes to Miu Miu, Tom Ford, Givenchy and Schiaparelli, Paris Fashion Week featured a roster of iconic brands on the runway schedule. The autumn winter 2025 edition of women’s ready-to-wear prided itself on 72 shows and 37 presentations, from 3-11 March. 

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Dior Autumn Winter 2025 at Paris Fashion Week

The collections presented and sold during Paris Fashion Week accounts for between 30 — 50 percent of luxury fashion brands’ annual sales. Per Luxury Tribune, ‘French luxury fashion generates sales of around 150 billion euros and accounts for almost 2.5 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product, thanks mainly to major groups such as LVMH, Chanel, Kering and Hermès.’

Designers, like Haider Ackermann at Tom Ford and Sarah Burton at Givenchy, were showing for the first time since their appointment while others were cementing their vision. So, it was no wonder that invitations were coveted and the shows were packed. From Anna Wintour to celebrities like Hailey Bieber, Kate Moss and Deepika Padukone, Paris Fashion Week witnessed fashion’s finest debating, “What will everyone be wearing this autumn?” 

Let’s take a look at the top shows of Paris Fashion Week —:

PARIS FASHION WEEK AUTUMN WINTER 2025

Christian Dior

Dior autumn winter 2025 took inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel ‘Orlando’. In the show notes, the maison explained that Maria Grazia Chiuri aspired to “revisit the memories and gestures that belong to Dior’s heritage by forging a pluralistic dialogue with the history of fashion… evocations of a past that is ever closer to the contemporary wardrobe.”

There was a streak of individuality in the removable collars and other detachable elements. And a play of contrasts. Per the show notes, “The transparency finishing the shirts contrasts with the matte black felt of the hyper-structured coats… masculine jackets are combined with bustiers. The tailcoat is back. Lace collars are added… Utilitarian pieces, such as raincoats, are part of the ensemble and illuminate a daily life that takes us back to the heart of our history.”

At the heart of Dior’s vision was a deep appreciation for craftsmanship and luxury. He valued high-quality materials, impeccable tailoring, and meticulous attention to detail, ensuring that every garment was a work of art. Dior’s dedication to the craft transformed the fashion industry, setting a new standard for luxury that still influences modern designers. His vision was not merely about creating beautiful clothes but about elevating fashion to an art form, where every piece tells a story of elegance, creativity, and timeless beauty.

Louis Vuitton

Retracing Louis Vuitton’s travel heritage, Creative Director Nicolas Ghesquière merged past and present with his audacious signature aesthetic. In a play of volumes, textures, and motifs, the autumn winter 2025 collection redefines modern elegance through a myriad of statement silhouettes with contrasting allure. In a display of bold eclecticism, technical outerwear and ruffled gowns are accompanied by bags, shoes, and accessories in striking proportions. Infused with vibrant pops of colour and graphic prints, the autumn 2025 collection features a collaboration with electro group Kraftwerk.

Each collection at Louis Vuitton is rooted in preserving its artisanal legacy while constantly pushing the boundaries of design and technology, ensuring its relevance in a rapidly evolving global market. Every creation embodies the brand’s philosophy: the perfect marriage of functionality, elegance, and innovation. At the heart of Louis Vuitton’s vision is a dedication to sustainability and responsibility, reflecting the changing values of contemporary luxury consumers. The brand actively strives to integrate eco-conscious practices, from sourcing sustainable materials to championing ethical production methods.

Chanel

A ribbon rises at the heart of the nave of the Grand Palais, in Paris, in a spectacular and poetic play on proportions imagined on the occasion of the Chanel Fall-Winter 2025/26 Ready-to-Wear show. Per the brand: ‘Bows in all sizes, delicate lines, transparencies, tweed with trompe l’oeil effects, illusion tulle, heels made of a single pearl: in this larger-than-life setting, the collection enhances the codes of the House with a dreamlike touch.’

At the heart of each collection is painstaking craftsmanship. Visionary founder Coco Chanel recognised the importance of acquiring and investing in artisanal businesses while maintaining their independence and ability to work with other brands. The aim was to financially support the artisan workshops to save age-old artisan crafts from potential extinction, also ensuring that the luxury fashion industry has access to the fine craft skills on which their business depends.

Tom Ford

Tom Ford was unapologetically bold, glamourous and sexy. “A beginning is a new dance. You start by looking at your partner, acknowledging differences, exploring similarities, trying to find ways to match each other’s steps and move harmoniously. Entering the house that Mr. Tom Ford built, I was drawn to the man himself, whose personality reverberates through everything he envisioned. He is nightlife, I am the morning after: this is where our dance begins,’ says newly appointed Creative Director Haider Ackerman.

“Inside a chamber bathed in grey, with guests seated on plush benches, steamy mirrors all around bearing traces of the night before. Sensuality is the feeling of beauty. I welcomed my beauties here: the noble personalities embodying my idea of what makes an individual today. Their androgyny brings alive the vertical directness of what they wear, the ease of pure lines empowered by the full blast of color. The morning after all that’s unnecessary has been left behind. What remains are feelings, impressions and lips bleeding red that have been kissed for the whole night. I believe in love.”

Schiaparelli

Elsa Schiaparelli instilled a creative spirit in 20th-century fashion with her revolutionary vision on sportswear, Haute Couture, art, fragrance, and ordinary elements turned into elaborate creations. Her iconic collaborations with artists like Dalí, Cocteau, Man Ray, and Giacometti became legendary. Nowadays, the Maison Schiaparelli cultivates this incredible heritage, offering women of the 21st-century the essence of a bold style and timeless allure.

Schiaparelli Fall Winter 2025/26 titled ‘LONE STAR’ asks, “As designers, we spend a lot of time thinking about and talking to the women in our lives. How do they dress in their daily lives? What makes them feel both special and comfortable? What do they want from their clothes?” The answer lies in the statement looks, particularly a long, figure-hugging dress knitted with “snake scale” effect in bronze with copper laminate.

Hermes

“Assertive allure.” That’s the focus of Hermes Autumn Winter 2025-26 at Paris Fashion Week. The figure is wrapped in warm materials; function is a source of strength. Clothes are transformed, craftsmanship resonates, showcasing confident femininity in movement. Clarity of line, straight and distinct. The cut is strong, the shoulders fitted, and the waist cinched. Feminine and masculine intertwine, guided by the precision of know-how.

Per show notes, “Clothes are transformed in a dialogue between form and function. A fastening that opens, a reversible piece that reveals new ways of wearing it. Felt closely contours leather. The beauty of skillful drapery, an enveloping blanket coat. Knitwear extends into a muffler, enfolding the body in a movement, like a second skin. A line is traced, unveiling its curves. Firmly rooted, the looks move forward into the light.”

French luxury brand Hermès, founded in 1837 by Thierry Hermès, is renowned for its exceptional craftsmanship, timeless elegance, and high-quality products. Initially specialising in equestrian harnesses and saddles, the brand expanded its repertoire to include leather goods, silk scarves, ready-to-wear,  accessories, and perfumes. Per the website: ‘Since 1837, generation after generation, Hermès has followed a dual thread – on the one hand the painstaking work of the craftsman in his workshop, and on the other Hermès remains highly sensitive and attentive to the changing nature and needs of society.’

Dries Van Noten

“This collection is a celebration of transformation: the quiet yet powerful dialogue between past and future, which is at the heart of Dries Van Noten,” says Artistic Director Julian Klausner, who worked under Van Noten for six years before taking the mantle of Creative Director this season. And many aspects of the legacy the Belgian designer built since 1986 were front and center on the runway for fall 2025, including rich colours, fabrics and unexpected embellishments,

Per WWD: “The show started by reestablishing strong tailoring and louche bohemianism as brand calling cards with the opening look of a black heavy wool masculine-inspired coat whipstitched at the lapels with white shoelaces, followed up right after by a gorgeous, draped devoré velvet deshabille dress. Tailoring was a through line in rich russet orange, ultraviolet purple and other powerful hues… Equally important, though, were feminine skirts, from a heavy wool dirndl style with foldover waist band, to sarong shapes.”

Balenciaga 

Balenciaga Autumn Winter 2025 was a hot ticket after now-former Creative Director Demna was named a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, recognising his impact on fashion and culture, and the award was presented by France Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati.

The collection was bookended by contrasting interpretations of the ubiquitous T-shirt: a Cocoon maxi dress in fluid black jersey and its counterpart, a Semi-Fitted white bodycon t-shirt minidress. This dichotomy of extremes appears throughout: crisp new garments VS. ultra-destroyed pieces / voluminous skirts VS. ‘micro-skirts’ / multilayered maximalist ensembles VS. looks made of single garments.

Per the brand: “Austere, monolithic silhouettes include maxi-skirt tailored tracksuits in pleated nylon, linen, and fluid twill, a Semi-Fitted maxi coat in gabardine, and an ‘Old Hollywood’ kaftan in viscose jersey—inspired by M. Balenciaga’s 1951 Semi-Fitted silhouette. Casual Everyday Outfits reimagine the two piece suit as modern Neo-Suits made of hooded zip-up jackets and trousers in cotton, linen, or stonewashed shirting flannel. Hybrid looks feature cut-up cargo pants patched onto tracksuit bottoms; cocoon leather jackets with hacked-off fringes and ‘collar-hoods’; and a football jersey recontextualised in laser-cut calfskin “mesh”.”

The idea of the comfortable biker suit: a sweatsuit disguised as a leather jacket and motorcycle pants, alongside other “sweatsuits” in trompe-l’oeil Japanese denim woven to look like melange molleton! Utilitarian Balenciaga Uniforms feature hooded coach’s jacket tracksuits, reversible Arctic parkas and gilets, nylon MA-1 jackets with washable Jacron tags, ribbed surplus-style utility knitwear, and poplin uniform shirts with corporate iconography.

Stella McCartney

Stella McCartney Autumn Winter 2025-26 titled “Rock Royalty” is a study in the designer’s rock  heritage, particularly her parents, in addition to her personal archive and activism for Mother Earth.It was one of the most anticipated shows at Paris Fashion Week, as guests wanted t see the direction of the brand after Stella McCartney bought back LVMH’s minority stake in her fashion label.

A collection of Stella’s greatest hits, the line-up focuses on wearability, sensuality and sustainability. Silhouettes reference parents Paul and Linda McCartney’s shared wardrobes, grounded by a palette of berry tones and rich textures. A rockstar sex appeal and glamour are seen across hand-placed embroideries on 70s tailoring, organic cotton denim and dresses, alongside tactile loop knits and vegan alternatives to suede.

This inspiration continues through iconic Savile Row tailoring, seen in “men’s herringbone coats in deadstock materials and patched responsibly sourced wool sets. A day-to-night edit includes draped silhouettes with batwing, strong-shouldered jersey dresses, off-the-shoulder knits and forest-friendly viscose satin skirts, while everyday staples transition into evening statements with a tuxedo edit, across classic smoking tailoring, gowns in modern cuts and hand-embroidery,” per the collection notes.

Givenchy

“To go forward, you have to go back to the beginning. To me, that’s about the atelier. It’s the heart and soul of Givenchy.” says Givenchy‘s new Creative Director Sarah Burton. “It’s my natural instinct to go back to pattern-cutting, to craftsmanship. To cut, shape and proportion. It’s what I feel, how I work, and want to do.”

Per the French luxury house founded in 1952 by designer Hubert de Givenchy, ‘A cache of Hubert de Givenchy patterns was recently discovered walled up in a hidden cupboard at his first maison at 8 Avenue Alfred de Vigny while it was being renovated. The brown paper packets proved to contain calico patterns from his 1952 debut collection, which he showed to audience packed into his atelier. For Sarah Burton, it triggered a tangible connection with her own way of working: on the stockman, in fittings, between the studio and the atelier.’

Purposefully close-up, her first collection as Artistic Director walked intentionally, with zero distractions, through the house at 3, Avenue Georges V, the historic address of Givenchy since 1955.Starting from the body up – from the imagery of the studio stockman, stamped Givenchy 1952- the rhythm of her collection focuses on tailoring, merging and counterpointing masculine techniques with feminine shape.

 

McQueen

In 1992 Alexander McQueen launched his own label and in less than ten years became one of the most powerhouse fashion designers. His early runway collections earned him the title “l’enfant terrible” as he put on a series of superlative shows, each one more dramatic than the next.  For Autumn 2025,  Seán McGirr, Creative Director, McQueen said, “To me, dandyism is the ultimate act of adornment; deeply personal, playful and transgressive. It raises questions of character and identity, idealism and gender. I wanted to explore the enduring relevance of the dandy’s radical spirit in our modern world.”

Per the collection notes, ‘Dandyism — unravelled and rewritten. Artists, writers and aesthetes, decorated for distinction. Oscar Wilde, Vesta Tilley, Romaine Brooks. The neo-dandy — visceral and tactile pleasures, borrowing from the codes of the Victorian Gothic. Fluid silks and textured lace with intricately traced florals; layered and raw edged, brushing against skin. Intimate opulence and adornment. The tension between spectacle and concealment. Gold bullion embroidered cloaks and crystalline masks, glimmering in the dark. Black sculpted hats by Philip Treacy, angular and obscuring.’

A proud silhouette. Lean, sharp suiting subverting British tailoring traditions. Tall book-pleated collars and pinched Victorian shoulders. Enveloping shearling and elongated boots.  Technical performance fabrics clashed with opulent heirloom jewels. Tailcoat parkas with mirrored facets, reflecting the electricity of London. Darkly decadent jacquards, suiting and wool cashmere unfolding into hallucinatory colour. Swirling plumes of fuchsia, iced lilac and green. Deep plum nylon against rippling silk georgette. It was magnificent.

 

Miu Miu

Miu Miu was established in 1993 by Miuccia Prada as a more playful and experimental counterpart to luxury fashion brand, Prada. The name “Miu Miu” originates from Miuccia Prada’s childhood nickname, reflecting the brand’s intimate connection to her personal style and creative vision. While Prada is popular for its minimalist elegance, Miu Miu embodies a bold, free-spirited aesthetic, with bold colours, unconventional fabrics, and whimsical embellishments.

The Autumn Winter 2025 Miu Miu collection by Miuccia Prada is shaped as an evaluation of the feminine. It is a reflection of and upon the meaning of women, expressed through clothes, that provokes discussion and thought. Construction invents a shape independent from the figure of the wearer, a shape that sits around and beside the body, regardless of its form. Clothes are manipulated, folded, shifted and shaped to curve. The power of femininity can transform the fundamentally masculine, clothes freed from confines. Attention is drawn to the décolleté, tailoring and collapsed dresses drawn away, revealing the body beneath.

Saint Laurent

Founded in 1961 by fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his business partner Pierre Bergé, the luxury fashion brand revolutionised women’s fashion with its introduction of androgynous styles, such as the legendary ‘Le Smoking’ tuxedo. Today, Saint Laurent continues to be a dominant force in haute couture, ready-to-wear, leather goods, and fashion accessories, balancing heritage with contemporary innovation. Under the ownership of Kering, the luxury brand is a symbol of Parisian elegance today, catering to a global clientele with its bold and sophisticated aesthetic.

With straightforward pieces free of superfluous details, Anthony Vaccarello’s Autumn Winter 2025 for Saint Laurent -the show that closed Paris Fashion Week- showcased pure forms and trimmed volume. Stone-washed skirts worn with leather blousons create ambiguity while a concise palette – saturated versions of signature Saint Laurent colours- fills out the collection’s clear lines. To achieve a technical texture, stretch fabrics are paired with guipure, couture fabrics are distressed, and cigaline silk printed with animal and floral motifs is submerged in silicone. As a counterweight to the minimalism, pointed shoes are embellished with a satin square rose. Accessorising jewellery is made of rock crystal, a lucky stone favoured by Yves Saint Laurent.