9 Trends Set to Define Spring 2025 Fashion

Individuality! Opulence! Soft Power! Romance! The spring/summer 2025 collections brought many ideas into focus, but perhaps the biggest takeaways from fashion month were a renewed sense of lightness and softness as well as a return to personal style. This is a notable shift away from fashion centered on minimalism, quiet luxury, and practical wearability, which has dominated for the past several seasons. Instead, there is a sense of joy returning to fashion and renewed energy around the art of getting dressed.

We’ve already seen personality pieces enter into wardrobes in the form of unexpected items such as pillbox hats, but that has only been dialed up as designers call attention to highly personal looks. Brands such as Prada and Valentino made the case for this, bringing individuality back to fashion on the runway though inventive styling. Chanel returned to the Grand Palais after a four-year renovation, ushering the lightness of the space into the collection—a sensibility that permeated throughout fashion month overall. We even saw this movement toward softer palettes and more romantic silhouettes from brands such as Khaite that have come to be known for darker, edgier collections. Bottega Veneta, too, felt whimsical, using childlike playfulness as a point of inspiration. Saint Laurent was able to tap into several of the season’s bigger themes, including soft power and opulence. The accessory of 2025 arrived in the form of modern peep-toe shoes at Tory Burch and ACNE Studios. There is a lot to unpack from the runway collections in New York, London, Milan, and Paris, and ahead are the key takeaways.

Here, see the nine spring/summer 2025 trends that are set to dominate fashion in the coming year and shop the key pieces to adopt now.

What’s come to be known as corporatecore has had a hand in fashion for years now. Following lockdown, people became surprisingly excited about the concept of putting on a suit or any office-appropriate ensemble instead of sweatpants for their 9-to-5s. For spring 2025, designers began to soften the once sharp tailoring that fell under this aesthetic, moving beyond traditional suiting in some cases and crafting a wardrobe for the modern working person who wants to look work-ready but still chic and comfortable. They still project power and influence with their ensembles, but now, it’s in a far less obvious and intimidating fashion. At Ferragamo, Gabriela Hearst, and Stella McCartney, this energy manifested itself by way of subtly slouchy trench coats paired with pumps and structured handbags. The Row, Bottega Veneta, Christopher Esber, and, most notably, Saint Laurent, displayed the “soft power” look in the form of oversize suiting styled alongside cool accessories—from statement eyewear to cuff bracelets.

The fall/winter 2024 runways saw red—the color that had dominated the fashion circuit for over a year—ascend from just another trend to timeless status before our eyes. More shades of the color appeared, particularly burgundy, but instead of feeling like a short-lived fad, every variation of red on the runways appeared to be just as wearable as the many black, cream, and gray ensembles we saw in spades. All of that is to say that red’s promotion made room for a new color trend to reach ubiquity the following season, and powder pink was quick to fill that spot. Throughout the spring/summer 2025 shows, powder pink garnered attention from the powers that be in fashion with a heavy showing in New York at Alaïa, Khaite, and Brandon Maxwell and in Milan and Paris at Miu Miu, Chanel, Valentino, and Jil Sander. Though not exactly groundbreaking for spring, the soft shade did feel fresh and airy compared to some of the darker colors we’ve come to expect from these brands, Khaite in particular.

With the rise of micro-trends on the internet and social media platforms, there has been a sameness to style, but have we lost touch with our personal style? That seemed to be the question designers were contemplating on the runways. This became clear at Prada, where Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons discussed the era of internet algorithms and emphasized a return to personal style on the runways. Rather than a concrete theme like we have come to expect at Prada, the sensibilities changed from look to look, and each model seemed to have a different sense of style. This continued throughout the season with looks that emphasized individuality and personal style. This often came down to styling.