As London Trend Week continues, extra designers take to the catwalk to showcase their autumn/winter collections.
From Sinead Gorey and Richard Quinn to Di Petsa and extra, listed here are some highlights from among the current reveals.
Richard Quinn delivers old-Hollywood glamour in winter wonderland present
Richard Quinn created a winter wonderland and introduced again Dior’s ‘new look’ silhouette nearly 80 years later at London Trend Week. It was as if the present was encapsulated inside a classic snow globe.
The British designer reworked the Royal Horticultural Halls right into a winter wonderland, with a Georgian townhouse emblazoned together with his identify above the door and wrought iron gates guiding fashions by way of a glowing runway lined with road lamps and dusted with snow.
As snow fell from the ceiling, classical strings started to play, and luxurious silks, pouffes and ruffles started to spill out onto the runway. Regardless of being famed for his liberal use of loud florals and capacious ruffles; this assortment took a extra refined method – showcasing monotoned silks, pitch-dark velvets and stylish embellished robes.
Nevertheless, that’s to not say the gathering wasn’t with out his quintessential florals. Giant eighties-style roses washed night robes, with exaggerated shoulder pads and cinched wasp waists, mixing the extremes of placing confidence and delicate femininity within the assortment.
Quinn’s bridal assortment was the jewel within the crown. His previous Hollywood glamour, floor-length veils, ruffles, satin and refined elaborations supplied the proper timeless but up to date wedding ceremony robes.
Trend East presents Louther, Nuba and Olly ShinderÂ
25 years in, Trend East’s design incubator continues to be going robust. This season, Louther, Nuba and Olly Shinder offered their respective autumn/winter 2025 collections through the present.
Louther, which is led by German designer Olympia Schiele, collaborated with Polish visible artist Helena Minginowicz this season, whose work explores notion, relationships, and impermanence.
Her follow contrasts conventional canvases with disposable supplies, questioning notions of worth and wonder in a consumer-driven world. By mixing classical influences with mass manufacturing and digital aesthetics, she displays on the intersection of excessive and low tradition – an echo of the themes inside this assortment. Tailoring, dishevelled pants and outsized jackets are featured all through the designs, alongside leather-based clothes and equipment. In the meantime, the color palette of black and gray was interspersed with pops of khaki, brown and white.
Nuba is led by co-creative administrators Cameron Williams and Jebi Labembika. The gathering shares a fabric exploration of performance, setting and need. A press release of timelessness and resourcefulness, that includes cross-seasonal, foundational items crafted for layering, and adapting to 1’s setting, decoding the connection now we have with clothes when ‘ waking up’ to a safer and assured self.
Fundamentals have been layered, scarves wrapped overcoats, necessities reworked into protecting armour, and luggage created for multi-purpose use. Textural juxtapositions have been additionally a key side of the preliminary imagining of this assortment; delicate materials towards muted glass buildings, rubber towards concrete, free skirts towards tailor-made jackets. The muted greys and browns of the town towards the blues and greens of nature.
Delivering his most distilled assortment thus far, Olly Shinder subverted associations of utilitarian clothes by reinterpreting army put on. The recontextualisation of camouflage netting was a key focus, with army-issue thermals additionally recreated in effective cotton yarn to supply semi-sheer, ribbed stretch sweaters and tank tops.
A standard German Guild shirt was reimagined with a fancy placket building. The latter is a staple of the season’s womenswear providing, which marks Shinder’s most sturdy exploration within the class thus far, additionally impressed by Nineteen Fifties nursing uniforms, which could possibly be seen within the smock and pinafore attire.
Di Petsa explores divine sexuality and the subversion of feminine need archetypes.
Di Peta unveiled Reflections of Want, described as a sensual exploration of divine sexuality and the subversion of feminine need archetypes. This season, Greek designer Dimitra Petsa doesn’t merely costume the physique; she explores the longing, starvation, and ecstasy that defines it. The main target is on the chest and the crotch, “the 2 divine centres of delight, emotion, and energy”.
Lace underwear turns into jewelry, draped and wrapped across the physique, whereas white lace thongs encircle the neck, mixing with strands of pearls – a poetic interaction of affection and indulgence. As well as, this season’s prints function the imprints of the designer’s personal lips, marking clothes with the intimate hint of a kiss.
Tailoring that includes velvet-covered lace and sharp cuts softened by cascading material for autumn/winter 2025 and vegan leather-based coats sculpted the physique harking back to Historical Greek sculptures.
Petsa additionally reimagined menswear from the feminine gaze, crafting characters that embody poets, muses, fantasies, and goddesses, every a manifestation of the artistic drive of Eros.
Dreaming Eli explores femininity by way of grotesque symbolismÂ
Energy, magnificence and femininity – that’s what Dreaming Eli is all about. Based by Inventive Director Elisa Trombatore, the womenswear label opens a dialogue in regards to the power that comes with seduction.
For AW25, Dreaming Eli’s assortment ‘Between My Coronary heart and Ribs’ is the product of Tombatore trying inwards. Every sew was impressed by poet Warsan Shire, who wrote “you possibly can’t make a house out of human beings; somebody ought to have already instructed you that”. With these phrases in thoughts, the CSM graduate explored the intricate layers of flesh, bone and emotion and interprets this into a set of gothic galore.
Throughout the hallowed partitions of a gothic Clerkenwell Church, the designer showcased shibori cloth manipulation to create constricted, natural shapes that have been used to symbolise each bondage and launch – evoking the complexities that include womanhood. Pink, which represents trauma and energy, bled throughout the gathering, in the meantime delicate nudes and pinks evoked intimacy.
Distressed knitwear and deconstructed lingerie have been new for the season. However, most notably, the designer branched out into outwear with the introduction of a black puffer jacket etched with corsetry detailing – as you possibly can see, this isn’t your common puffer.
This assortment was the proper instance of a designer who loves and celebrates the feminine kind and the ladies she attire.
Race gear meets medieval in Denzilpatrick’s AW25 present
Based by Inventive Director Daniel Gayle, working alongside Inventive Director James Bosley, Denzilpatrick is a up to date London-based menswear model that makes use of the language of clothes to seize the spirit and tales of the town and its city id below its “London Belongs To Me” ethos.
Presenting a “trendy parade of chivalry and brotherhood”, the British model’s present notes describe this season’s assortment as a “medieval revival, with a way of pageantry and peacocking, interspersed with the impartial spirit of the racetrack”.
The designs see ostentatious slogans and regal sample beautify mud-splashed race gear. In the meantime, battle costume is forged in daywear materials, “armed and prepared for the each day London commute”.
The model’s signature use of color can also be expounded within the assortment as team-kit colors grew to become regal tones and night costume blacks have been swapped for shades of gunmetal, silver and anthracite.
