Best looks from the Haute Couture Fashion Week

The Spring/Summer 2025 Haute Couture Fashion Week

Last week, the French capital thrilled to haute couture collections that set the hearts of fashion lovers racing. While Schiaparelli and Chanel went down the same path with a combination of their respective heritage and the latest trends, Giorgio Armani unveiled an Armani Privé couture show featuring not less than 93 looks drawing their influences from colours and textiles from China, India, Japan and North Africa.

From the Dior Spring/Summer 2025 haute couture show, held in the magnificent setting of the Rodin museum, to the intimate presentation of the Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda collection, with its mix of religion, baroque and gilding, and the first haute couture collection by designer Alessandro Michele for Valentino, each show added a personal touch of splendour to this rich fashion week.

The most breathtaking shows include Schiaparelli, Chanel and Giorgio Armani Privé

Time seemed to stand still as Kendall Jenner stepped onto the catwalk for the finale of the Schiaparelli show designed by Daniel Roseberry. Dressed in a bustier mesh gown adorned with draped grey satin and embroidered with flowers by the house of Lesage, this look, just like the dress embroidered with ostrich feathers immersed in glycerine, revealed all the complexity of haute couture and amazed both guests and social media.

Meanwhile, Chanel dazzled us with brightly coloured silhouettes, such as the carmine red dress with sequins and the loose Majorelle blue cape, while Giambattista Valli and Dior opted for pink on crinoline and floral dresses, as perhaps an omen of the comeback of the Marie-Antoinette aesthetic.

From Gaurav Gupta to Miss Sohee and Rahul Mishra, sculptural dresses also were in the spotlight.

Exploring fabrics at Georges Hobeika, Germanier and Viktor & Rolf

Giorgio Armani, a great lover of transparency and pearls, revealed one of our favourite outfits – a low-cut dress adorned with a river of stones like crystals, entirely hand embroidered. These details were found at Georges Hobeika this year too.

The house of Viktor & Rolf tried its hand at silk gazar, a luxurious fabric used throughout the collection. As for Sevali, the house preferred to use found objects, such as motorbike gloves, to create bold outfits that broke the codes of haute couture.

Last but not least, the designer Germanier, who brought Fashion Week to a close in style, also took his first steps into the world of couture with looks made of upcycled materials that often are neglected by the fashion world. He unveiled flamboyant, coloured dresses made from a multitude of strands of tinsels, sequins and pearls.

Traduction Emma Naroumbo Armaing.