Spring/Summer 2025 collections: From power dressing to nostalgic youth

The spring/summer 2025 ready-to-wear season has officially concluded, with collections presented over the past month in New York, London, and Milan, followed by the final stretch in Paris.

Here, we round up everything you need to know about the new season, from iconic A-list model moments (featuring the Hadid sisters, Naomi Campbell, Alexa Chung, and even Hilary Swank) to the most beautiful collections. The front rows were equally star-studded, with Rihanna, Nicole Kidman, Harry Styles, Zendaya, and Emily Ratajkowski all spotted enjoying the latest offerings from their favorite designers.

Louis Vuitton

For spring/summer 2025, Nicolas Ghesquière explored the fascinating oxymoron of "soft power." "This collection thrives on contrast, seemingly generating constant movement," he explained. "Sartorial soft power is a striking back-and-forth between contradictory yet harmonious opposites—structure and suppleness, lightness and weight, ethereal opulence and razor-sharp delicacy. It is the mastery of fluidity in motion."

Coperni

Coperni’s spring/summer 2025 collection was a "celebration of youth, nostalgia, and imagination," presented in the perfect setting: Disneyland. Kylie Jenner made her runway debut for the brand, wearing a Coperni twist on a Disney princess gown. The brand’s statement reflected the impact of technology on their generation, while maintaining a romantic perspective: "We are optimists, guided by the human heart. From our youth, we imagine the future and all the possibilities it holds."

Chanel

Although Chanel is still without a creative director, its spring/summer 2025 show was memorable, marking the house’s return to the Grand Palais after a four-year absence. Recently restored, the landmark’s glass roof was used as a backdrop for the collection, which embodied the theme of "flight." "This collection is a tribute to women who freed themselves from society’s gaze, just as Gabrielle Chanel did," the brand stated. "This flight is dedicated to them."

McQueen

Sean McGirr drew inspiration from the myth of the banshee for his second McQueen collection. "The banshee is rooted in McQueen’s history and is deeply personal to me. I remember my mother speaking of her in Ireland, describing the haunting cry of this solitary figure," McGirr explained. "To me, she represents someone forthright and real—a guiding force."

Victoria Beckham

For spring/summer 2025, Victoria Beckham explored the act of getting dressed, focusing on the relationship between the body and the garments it adorns. The collection, which exaggerated body shapes and played with the concept of nudity, featured draped dresses, slashed separates, and underwear worn as outerwear. "The art of dressing begins with the act of dressing," said Beckham. "Every day, within the intimacy of our wardrobes, women experiment with the dynamic between body and clothes. This collection explores that space, not only where we dress but where we undress too."

Miu Miu

Miu Miu’s SS25 collection, titled Salt Looks Like Sugar, featured an all-star catwalk lineup, including Alexa Chung, Hilary Swank, Willem Dafoe, and Sunday Rose Kidman-Urban. The collection explored how the lines between fact and fiction are increasingly blurred in today’s post-truth world, while also reflecting on "early youth as a period of absolute truth," as Miuccia Prada explained. Designs traditionally associated with childhood—white cotton dresses, bloomers, and utilitarian pieces—were reimagined, with sweaters wrapped across the body. "Things becoming other, their displacement changing their purpose, shifting their truth," Prada noted.

Valentino

Spring/summer 2025 marked Alessandro Michele’s runway debut with Valentino, following his initial presentation in the resort collection. His show, Pavillon des Folies, drew on Valentino’s history, particularly the 1970s, while infusing Michele’s signature maximalism into a new era. Models wore veils, enormous hats, piercings, faux fur, white tights, polka dots, florals, ruffles, bows, and elaborate embellishments. "This collection is about the joy of dressing up and finding meaning in beauty," Michele explained.