Miu Miu went very Mad Males, mixing workwear seems to be with ‘simply obtained house from an evening out’ vibes, whereas at Chanel, bows have been very large information.
It’s been a reasonably eclectic Paris Trend Week (3-11 March). We’ve had Victoria Beckham flip a dressing robe right into a dreamily draped high, Sarah Burton put her stamp on Givenchy, and witty Dutch designer Duran Lantink – tipped to take over at Jean Paul Gaultier – despatched a male mannequin down the runway carrying prosthetic breasts.
The ultimate day of the festivities will shut out with Saint Laurent’s newest assortment tonight, however first, Chanel and Miu Miu shared their womenswear ready-to-wear strains for autumn/winter 2025/26.
CHANEL
Fashions put on creations as a part of the Chanel Fall/Winter 2025-2026 Womenswear assortment offered Tuesday, March 11, 2025 in Paris. (Picture by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
Chanel obtained the day underway in an enormous white area, the fashions threading their approach round a big black ribbon – a nod to the bows that outlined virtually each outfit on show. Not simply adorning necklines, a hip-length puffer jacket was even belted with a number of bows and a seemingly pleather cowboy getup swapped traditional tassels for but extra bows.
The gathering was designed by the Chanel studio staff. Matthieu Blazy joined the model in December as Creative Director from Bottega Veneta, however his first Chanel present isn’t anticipated till September. So that is one thing of an interim assortment.
A mannequin wears a creation as a part of the Chanel Fall/Winter 2025-2026 Womenswear assortment offered Tuesday, March 11, 2025 in Paris. (Picture by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
Based by the sophisticated, good Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel, Chanel continues to be sure up with the late Karl Lagerfeld’s nearly 40-year tenure. Quilted purses, the luxe CC brand, little black clothes, prim woven two-piece fits with gilt buttons – the Chanel look and color palette (a lot black, white and gold, the odd flash of pink) are as traditional as Chanel no.5.
This season black and white, in fact, continued to dominate. Fits have been overlaid with ethereal tulle clothes, Victorian ruffles wafted up and down the runway and Elizabeth I-like, spherical necks. Luggage shrank from enormous A3-size clutches in pink leather-based and colossal strings of pearls lung crossbody, to tiny golden-snitches on skinny chains.
Jessica Alba arrives for the the Chanel Fall/Winter 2025-2026 Womenswear assortment offered Tuesday, March 11, 2025 in Paris. (AP Picture/Christophe Ena).
A mannequin wears a creation as a part of the Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2025-2026 Womenswear assortment offered Tuesday, March 11, 2025. in Paris. (Picture by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
MIU MIU
Subsequent up, Miu Miu took over the historic Palais d’Iéna in Paris, an unbelievable spherical constructing that inside, was carried out up in gaudy yellow partitions, with cream Grecian columns flanking the runway.
A mannequin wears a creation as a part of the Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2025-2026 Womenswear assortment offered Tuesday, March 11, 2025. in Paris. (Picture by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
Fur was declared again – in stoles slung over purses, and on collars – pullovers must be worn layered, with diagonal half-zips, and earrings must be huge sufficient to crush your earlobes, and gold.
Launched, and nonetheless run, by Italian designer Miuccia Prada within the early Nineties, Miu Miu is the impish, extra light-hearted different to the grown-up world of Prada correct. The model’s seems to be are typically droll, quirky, daring, with a number of enjoyable and a retro edge to them.
The summer season 2025 assortment was like a Seventies-Nineties mash-up, with fashions carrying a number of jangling belts and boob tubes over shirts.
A mannequin wears a creation as a part of the Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2025-2026 Womenswear assortment offered Tuesday, March 11, 2025. in Paris. (Picture by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
This season, the boob tubes have been out. As an alternative, it was all about skinny, long-sleeved t-shirts, collarbones on show and slacks worn very lengthy in vivid inexperienced, yellow and greys. There was a Sixties workwear really feel to the trousers and jackets particularly, in addition to the fur accents and tremendous shiny quick clothes, whereas the colors – oranges, umbers, pale blues and tweedy browns – smacked of the Seventies.
There was additionally a operating theme of trying barely undressed and saggy, just like the fashions had been up dancing all evening – straps hanging down and buttoned-up cardigans yanked down beneath collarbones.
One other medley of a present, however what was apparent is, you’d higher begin carrying knee-high socks in lilacs and maroons.
