By Marine Do-Bale and Adam Ploughlite
February 15th, 2025 | 12:25pm
Nostalgia, escapism and bold reinvention define Paris Couture Week as 29 fashion houses that have presented collections that respect past times while reflecting today’s global challenges. did. With a dramatic show and a major change in creative leadership, the event celebrated both its legacy and the promise of a transformative future. Evening wear with nostalgia, fantasy fuel escape, and message…
Models introducing German works at the Women’s Haute Couture Spring 2025 Fashion Week held in Paris on January 30th, 2025 (Photo: Juliendesa/AFP)
Nostalgia, escapism and bold reinvention define Paris Couture Week as 29 fashion houses that have presented collections that respect past times while reflecting today’s global challenges. did. With a dramatic show and a major change in creative leadership, the event celebrated both its legacy and the promise of a transformative future.
The message about nostalgia night’s clothing, fantasy fuel escape and world peace was featured at Palis Tulle Week, and new changes were also seen in the merry-go-round, an artistic director of fashion.
The 29 House showed off their collection during Couture Week, which concluded on Thursday, following last week’s Men’s Fashion Week.
The past few centuries
Dior’s chief designer Maria Grazia Chiuli has been inspired by “Creativity of the Last Centuries” with her Spring/Summer 2025 collection becoming one of several artistic directors who have looked back at Italians’ inspiration. I said that.
The retro draped skirts, short crinolines and empty dresses and coats inspired by Yves Cent Laurent’s designs for the venerable Parisian brand in the 1950s are the show seen by star-studded audiences at the Rodin Museum. It was a highlight.
Daniel Roseberry, chief designer of Parisian House Schiaparelli, sent out a model that included Kendall Jenner, with a range that distinguishes the corset, saying it was inspired by ribbons discovered from the 1920s and 30s.
In his notes accompanying the show, he said, “I want to travel time and create silhouettes that remind me of haute couture from the past.”
Escape from reality
For many fans of haute couture, it serves as a celebration of pure escapism, beauty, creativity and craftsmanship.
But like everyone else, designers have a rapidly changing and unpredictable nature of our world in their minds.
Zuhaea Murad, who has worked with his hometown of Lebanon under the Israeli bombing, said his collection was inspired by the idea of a tropical island that will evacuate the reality of hard living.
“The message of this collection is to escape from our busy world. This beautiful island imagines a peaceful world far from the city, far from technology, far from the world we live in now. I did,” he told AFP.
From the bubble
However, as the conflict angered the Congo and Sudan from Ukraine, French designer Frank Sorbia tackled war and peace directly with a theatre show that combined music, song and dance.
The film was titled “Symphonie Barbare” (Barbaric Symphony”), featuring naked “wild men” male and female “warriors of peace” wearing aerial swing gowns decorated with tassels and sequins.
It ended with the “peace” phase, and concluded with the appearance of Sorvia in a black anorak with the words “peace and love.”
“The idea isn’t just to stay in the bubbles of haute couture,” he later told AFP. “We do haute couture, but we can still talk about news and concerns without sounding like we’re lectured.”
Eccentric Dutch duoVictor & Rolf has fallen into the advent of the age of technology and our concern for AI-driven by sending 24 variations of the same outfit.
“This is a collection of 24 variations of the same dress, and is photographed to an extreme. It’s a human interpretation of the unlimited possibilities of artificial intelligence,” Rolf Snolen said.
Change at the top
With ruffles and sparkle, this week was followed by a musical chair game from Top Fashion House.
British designer Stella McCartney announced her departure from the LVMH group on Monday, while Belgian designer Glenn Martens was appointed artistic director at Maison Margiela on Wednesday, replacing John Galliano. Ta.
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Meanwhile, rumors continue about Dior’s Grazia Chiuli, with her aim to give her place to British designer Jonathan Anderson from Loewe, owned by LVMH.
Chanel is now on Flux, with the latest show created by the brand’s creative studio following the sudden departure of artistic director Virginie Viard in June.
Her successor Matthieu Blazy was appointed in December – a specialist in Italian leather goods – but is not expected to present the collection by September.
I’ll put my legs out
One of the traditions of Haute Couture Week is that each fashion house closes the show with a bridal look.
This season, several designers from Chanel to Giambattista Valli sent out long white dresses with short fronts and behind.
Jean Paul Gaultier’s collection features a very clear, full-length feather gown that keeps your feet prominent.
