Highlights from the spring/summer 2025 shows

For spring/summer 2025, Nicolas Ghesquière wanted to explore the fascinating oxymoron of "soft power". "This collection thrives on contrast, seemingly generating constant movement," he explained. "Sartorial soft power can also be a striking back-and-forth between two contradictory yet harmonious opposites. The suppleness of structure. Intractable lightness. Mastering vibrations. Spidery depths. Ethereal opulence. Razor-sharp delicacy. Resolute femininity. The mechanics of fluidity..."

The SS25 Miu Miu collection – which had as star-studded a catwalk as ever with Alexa Chung, Hilary Swank, William Dafoe and Sunday Rose Kidman-Urban – was entitled 'Salt Looks Like Sugar' and was a comment on how the boundaries between fact and fiction are increasingly blurred in our post-truth era. Meanwhile, it also examined "early youth as a period of absolute truth," Miuccia Prada explained. Traditionally childlike designs – including white cotton dresses, bloomers and utilitarian pieces – were reimagined, while sweaters were tied and wrapped across the body. "Things becoming other, their displacement changing their purpose, shifting their truth."

Coperni's spring/summer 2025 collection was "a celebration of youth, nostalgia, and imagination" – and was presented in the most perfect place for this theme, Disneyland. The show saw Kylie Jenner make her catwalk debut for the brand in a Coperni-twist on the Disney princess gown.

"We are the generation who grew up with technology at our hands, it is part of how we think, breathe, design and communicate between each other," the brand said. "But we are romantics and think first of the human heart in all that we do. We are optimists. When we first met with the Disney team, we immediately started to imagine the possibilities beyond the two of us, beyond what we have known and what we have accomplished so far. In order to envision the future, we started from our youth."

Chanel might still be without a creative director, but the spring/summer 2025 catwalk show will always be a memorable one as it marks the house's return to the Grand Palais after four years away. The landmark – which has served as the location for the brand's catwalk shows for decades – recently underwent restoration, and reopened to huge fanfare as the house presented its latest collection.

The in-house team made the most of the glass roof to represent the theme of the season – flying up in the air.

"The collection is a tribute to women who freed themselves from the cumbersome gaze of society, just like Gabrielle Chanel," the brand said. "This flight is dedicated to them."

Discover more about the show here.