Representing the very pinnacle of Parisian trend – a dizzying haze of robes, movie star attendees and theatrical shows designed to tempt a handful of rich shoppers – Haute Couture Week arrives subsequent Monday within the French capital with loads of moments to look out for. As a result of, whereas high fashion stays the protect of the ultra-rich, its give attention to superlative savoir-faire and fantastical design means there are true trend thrills available – ones that so typically filter down into the model zeitgeist.
Notably, these embrace the arrival of Glenn Martens at Maison Margiela – following the extremely lauded tenure of John Galliano – and the swansong of Demna at Balenciaga earlier than he border-hops to his new function at Gucci in Italy. There may even be the ultimate Chanel assortment to be designed in-house earlier than the arrival of Matthieu Blazy, who will debut throughout ready-to-wear week in September, and the reveal of ‘new beginnings’ at JW Anderson. Elsewhere, Dior will press pause on exhibiting at high fashion week (new artistic director Jonathan Anderson will make his debut within the medium subsequent January), alongside Valentino and Jean Paul Gaultier.
Right here, Wallpaper* breaks down 5 of Haute Couture Week A/W 2025’s anticipated standout moments – keep tuned for stay protection, starting subsequent Monday on wallpaper.com (7 July 2025).
Glenn Martens will present his first assortment for Maison Margiela
Glenn Martens, who will debut at Maison Margiela on Wednesday
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Although he has huge sneakers to fill – predecessor John Galliano’s ten-year tenure at Maison Margiela supplied among the most memorable runway moments of latest occasions – Glenn Martens comes with the goodwill of the trade, after a stellar tenure at Y/Undertaking (he is also artistic director at Diesel, a job he’ll proceed alongside Maison Margiela). With the runway present scheduled for Wednesday night as couture week’s closing act, little has been revealed about what we will count on – neither Martens nor Maison Margiela have posted any sort of teaser – although count on a give attention to deconstruction (a trademark of each Maison Margiela and Martens’ work) by means of a subculture-inflected lens. ‘I really feel extraordinarily honoured to hitch the superb Maison Margiela, a really distinctive home that has been inspiring the world for many years,’ Martens stated after the appointment, which was introduced in January after Galliano’s departure.
READ: Glenn Martens is headed to Maison Margiela as the home’s new artistic director
A brand new imaginative and prescient for JW Anderson will likely be revealed
A teaser of JW Anderson’s ‘new beginnings’, which will likely be revealed throughout high fashion week
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Recent off his acclaimed debut assortment for Dior – which noticed him ‘decode and recode’ the home’s archive – Irish designer Jonathan Anderson is enterprise the same act of reinvention for his personal label, JW Anderson, which stays based mostly in London. He’ll reveal his new imaginative and prescient on Monday afternoon in Paris, having teased ‘new beginnings’ on Instagram for the previous weeks – together with a newly refreshed retailer design, labels, packaging, and what seems to be like an edit of homeware (from jugs and chairs to JW-branded trowels). Seeming to err in the direction of a temper of British craft and timelessness, the glimpses of clothes have adopted the same monitor, from woollen plaid kilts and striped polo tees to cable-knit sweaters and workwear denims. Although a sweater collaboration with Berlin-based queer artist Dean Sameshima, studying ‘Nameless Commerce’, confirms that the frisson of subversion that has lengthy outlined Anderson’s work stays.
Demna will maintain his Balenciaga swansong
Balenciaga’s Fall 2025 couture assortment in Wallpaper*
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It has develop into more and more uncommon for artistic administrators to have the chance to host a ‘closing present’ after their departure from a home – in latest seasons, exits have largely taken fast impact, with the reins being handed straight over to a successor or in-house design crew. For Balenciaga’s Demna, his transformative tenure on the home is being celebrated by a closing high fashion present, unfolding within the authentic restored high fashion salon on Tuesday (that is probably as a result of he’s transferring to a different home within the Kering roster, Gucci, fairly than one underneath a competitor conglomerate). Count on a usually modern imaginative and prescient of high fashion from the Georgian designer, a medium that has maybe been the spotlight of his decade on the home. ’We’ve develop into numb to the great thing about the world. Why don’t we see the wonder anymore?’ he advised Wallpaper* of his high fashion strategy. ‘We’d like it to outlive.’
READ: ‘What’s magnificence?’: Balenciaga’s Demna on creating completely fashionable high fashion
Dior will take a pause from exhibiting
Dior’s Cruise 2026 runway present, which featured a sequence of high fashion seems to be
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Although Anderson hosted his opening act at Dior final week – exhibiting his inaugural menswear assortment for the home on Friday afternoon – followers of the newly refreshed imaginative and prescient should wait just a little longer to see his first high fashion assortment, which represents the top of Dior’s oeuvre (in spite of everything, the home’s namesake Christian Dior is arguably essentially the most well-known couturier of the Twentieth-century). Taking a uncommon pause from the schedule, Anderson is predicted to make his couture debut subsequent January for S/S 2026, although Dior will not be completely and not using a high fashion assortment – Maria Grazia Chiuri’s closing Cruise present in Rome included numerous couture seems to be, which is able to probably be supplied to shoppers this July in a sequence of personal appointments.
The couture heavyweights will present all through the week
Chanel’s S/S 2025 high fashion assortment, proven final season
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Rounding out the schedule will likely be outings from a trio of high fashion heavyweights: Schiaparelli, Chanel and Armani Privé (Valentino is not going to present, having shifted to a once-a-year schedule for couture, whereas Jean Paul Gaultier awaits the arrival of latest artistic director Duran Lantink). At Schiaparelli, American designer Daniel Roseberry will proceed to hone his sculptural, theatrical imaginative and prescient for the home – which has amassed a legion of devotees and spawned a ready-to-wear line – whereas at Chanel, it is going to be the ultimate outing for the in-house design studio earlier than Matthieu Blazy’s tenure begins with a debut womenswear assortment in September. In the meantime, at Armani Privé, after Giorgio Armani didn’t seem for his closing bow at his menswear reveals in Milan – a be aware from the home stated he was recovering at residence after a latest hospitalisation – visitors will hope the designer will likely be again in full well being for the presentation, which takes place on Tuesday night.
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