Paris Trend Week Males’s marks the ultimate cease on menswear’s A/W 2025 month-long tour, a blockbuster finale comprising exhibits from a few of style’s largest names – amongst them Dior and Louis Vuitton, the latter opening proceedings yesterday night with Pharrell Williams’ newest assortment for the home. Celebrating a ‘friendship for all times’ with streetwear legend Nigo, he teamed up with the Kenzo artistic director on a co-designed assortment proven amongst a sequence of vitrines containing objects from their private archives (a nod to Nigo’s legendary style assortment, which numbers over 10,000 items).
Elsewhere, there will probably be no-doubt-arresting exhibits from Rick Owens, Comme des Garçons and Junya Watanabe, alongside the debut Paris present from Issey Miyake’s IM Males line (it should exchange the Homme Plissé Issey Miyake presentation the Japanese label often exhibits in Paris). And, whereas Loewe is likely to be sitting this season out, a handful of recent arrivals on the schedule will fill the gaps: notably, Willy Chavarria will shift from New York to Paris, and Jacquemus will host a devoted menswear present. British designer Peter Copping’s anticipated debut at Lanvin will shut the week on the night of 26 January (he’ll present his first males’s and womenswear collections collectively)
Right here, reporting from Paris, Wallpaper* style options editor Jack Moss unpacks the highlights from Milan Trend Week Males’s A/W 2025, as they occur.
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Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton menswear A/W 2025
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‘The creative manifestation of a friendship for all times,’ described Pharrell Williams of his newest Louis Vuitton menswear assortment, which noticed the multi-hyphenate designer collaborate with Tokyo streetwear legend Nigo, the founding father of A Bathing Ape and present artistic director of Kenzo. Since assembly within the early 2000s, the pair have shared a ‘artistic synergy’ – they might create Billionaire Boys Membership and Ice Cream in 2003 – celebrated within the Louvre showspace, which featured plenty of vitrines containing items from every of their private archives (from rails of clothes to CDs, sneakers, tapes, trunks and baggage).
Certainly, the eclectic, freewheeling assortment felt like a journey by means of the pair’s fixations, taking workwear silhouettes – carpenter pants, denim, bomber jackets and blousons – and elevating them by means of material and embellishment, whether or not crystal adornment or camouflage damier leather-based (although there was additionally robust tailoring, too, the silhouette comprising a boxy blazer worn with gently flared trousers which puddled on the ankle). Extra playful components – like a lobster-shaped purse or a pink ‘cherry blossom’ damier verify – mirrored each designers’ love of Japanese avenue tradition.
The finale noticed the pair taking a shared bow, whereas post-show company mingled to absorb a few of the extraordinary objects on show, a minuscule slice of Nigo’s legendary archive, which numbers 10,000 items of workwear, streetwear and ephemera. ‘[It’s] a dialog between the previous and future,’ Williams described. ‘[A] gaze into the long run by means of the telescope of historical past.’
READ: Pharrell Williams’ newest Louis Vuitton present celebrates a ‘friendship for all times’ with streetwear legend Nigo
Auralee
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A quiet confidence exudes from Ryota Iwai’s Auralee, mirrored in a rising buzz across the Tokyo-based label, which, regardless of having been in enterprise for ten years, is barely now gaining prominence exterior of its native Japan (it’s a favorite amongst many style insiders). For A/W 2025, Iwai continued his exploration of the on a regular basis wardrobe, enlivening its parts by means of intriguing fabrications and surprising color combos. There was an enveloping faux-fur jacket worn with an ideal blue shirt collar poking out from beneath, fuzzy mittens which hung across the neck, a pair of carpenter pants gently splashed with paint, vibrant striped knitwear, and completely shrunken hoodies and cardigans – our want record went on.
‘I drew inspiration from a good friend whose easy individuality struck me. Whether or not wearing a chic swimsuit sooner or later or their outdated worn-out T-shirt the subsequent, they at all times exuded a way of unapologetic authenticity,’ Iwai defined of the gathering’s place to begin. ‘It’s concerning the relationship between private artefacts and the fashionable wardrobe: an outdated leather-based jacket from [your] youthful days, a knit cardigan, now too small, that also gives consolation and reassurance. [With this collection] we intention to honour these keepsakes and mementoes… A spot the place your outdated favorite T-shirt carries the identical significance as an opulent cashmere coat.’
Keep tuned for extra from Paris Trend Week Males’s A/W 2025.
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