Our Guide To The Most Sensible Clothes From Spring/Summer 2025 Collections
The clothes of Spring/Summer 2025 (yes, for both women and men) are covetable as they are comfortable. Here, what we want to wear now.
Lines between menswear and womenswear have become increasingly fluid for Spring/Summer 2025, with similar themes running through both shows. By investing in shared pieces, you buy better (and reduce environmental impact while at it).
From can’t-miss stripes to power suits and dramatic florals, this season is packed with plenty of sensible sartorial inspo to get you (and him) falling in love with dressing up all over again. Ready to shop?
Along These Lines
Stripes were reinterpreted in a bold new way to create dynamic, multidimensional ensembles with a maximalist approach. Burberry, Rabanne, and Proenza Schouler led the band with distinctive flair, bringing polish to these high-voltage combinations. Prada’s Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons transformed the classic Breton tee by warping and staining it with running dye, resulting in an impressive trompe l’oeil effect.
Meanwhile, Matthieu Blazy’s final collection for Bottega Veneta explored childhood dress-ups with designs blending reality with fantasy. One of the show’s standout moments was Italian model-actress Mariacarla Boscono in a technicolour skirt with accordion-like leather panels that swayed beautifully down the runway.
Comfort Meets Cool
Athleisure elements now define everyday wardrobes. In Miuccia Prada’s Miu Miu collection, outerwear was styled unconventionally to draw attention to innerwear. Cropped sweaters and shirts doubled as broad bandeaus or waist-cinchers, with their sleeves serving as functional ties to hold everything in place. Deconstructed styling balanced the art of concealment and revelation of underlying garments, such as bathing suits and T-shirt dresses.
For men, Silvia Venturini Fendi introduced tops with diagonally positioned button-down closures extending from the collar to the left armpit. Undone, they revealed inner tank tops. Venturini Fendi described the offbeat design as “liberating the shoulder”.
Bubblegum Factory
So vibrant, so fresh, so perfectly spring. We swooned over the rouge-y pink that popped up throughout the men’s and women’s shows. Gucci’s boxy, leather-bonded coat with high-waist
pockets and an exaggerated back vent was the star of its menswear presentation. Wear it with
your hands buried deep in the pockets. Hermès kitted men out in dusty pink calf leather bomber jackets and other separates and whisked them to the seaside.
For women, Pieter Mulier delivered a stunning gravity-defying Alaïa gown—seamless, zip-less, and button-less. At Ferragamo, Maximilian Davis spun ballet pink into wrap tops, knotted wrap dresses, and shimmering slips.
Business As Usual
If Anthony Vaccarello suggested his Saint Laurent woman embrace full-on male drag, she’d own it. His latest looks paid an elegant homage to the founder’s aesthetic: double-breasted suits, crisp Oxford shirts, sensible work ties, and dark-rimmed glasses. Bottega Veneta’s wide shouldered, boyfriend-cut business jackets were designed with near identical precision.
As for Alexander McQueen’s rising star Seán McGirr, his spin on power dressing saw sharply raised shoulder jackets and coats and the occasional single rolled lapel as a nod to McQueen’s signature S-bend silhouette.
From The Ground Up
With the natural world as an enduring muse, designers sourced inspiration from flora, fauna and ever-shifting landscapes. Incorporating surfing aesthetics into Gucci offerings, Sabato De Sarno channelled the spirit of beach life. Surfer shirts, dolphin shirts, hibiscus shirts, and banana leaf shirts—some with beaded fringe and embroidered flowers) stood out.
Pharrell Williams recreated classic camouflage with Louis Vuitton’s “Snake-o-Flage” pattern—an interplay of magnified digital pixels designed to resemble python scales. Meanwhile, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons showcased a country-style floral slip dress, its delicate print offset by wired inserts in the shoulder ties and a sculptural, floating hemline.
Additionally, we coveted a sheer black dress embellished with dramatic plumes and a sparkling silver sequinned number embellished with circular mirror discs and clear stones.
Waist Watchers
As temperatures rise, hemlines traditionally follow suit. Midriffs are this season’s focal point. Chanel’s Creative Studio lifted hemlines on classic tweed suit jackets with matching skirts. With their high slits, the skirts added a sense of youthfulness to the ensembles.
At Chloé, Chemena Kamali dug into the brand’s 1970s heritage, producing impressive lingerie-inspired pieces, notably adapted from lace bloomers in the 1978 spring collection. Jonathan Anderson’s approach to flaunting the midsection at Loewe menswear included cropped shirts, polo shirts, and trousers with a high waistline.
At Prada, a fitted work shirt with a wire hem sat high against the torso, creating a dreamy windblown effect while exposing just enough skin.
The Craft
In high fashion, artisanal skill and design elevate collection executions season after season. Bottega Veneta demonstrated its mastery with a paillette dress made entirely of leather that, in its sparkling splendour, defied the very concept of hide. There was also an all-leather belted coat and a playful, spiky fringe boa that often doubled as hats resembling wigs.
Similarly, Kim Jones celebrated exceptional craftsmanship at Dior Men, challenging the ateliers with his interpretations of menswear derived from the brand’s womenswear archives. This approach resulted in softly tailored culotte-like shorts and a trouser style with wrap panels reminiscent of petal-hem skirts.
At Chanel, layers of downy feathers adorned jacket collars, adding an element of ethereality that signalled spring.
