This was the Spring/Summer 2025 lookbook from the biggest names in fashion, and the brands that showcased their work had a lot to offer. Early in the week, Christian Dior’s creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, drew our attention back to the summer of sport at the Paris Olympics, with several looks paying homage to the history of the Games – think Greek sandals, elevated athleisure, and the show closing with famous archer, Sagg Napoli, marching down the runway with bow and arrow in tow.
Moving on, halfway through the week, social media became obsessed with the quirky sight of Gigi Hadid walking the Vetements runway in a dress made of DHL packing tape. I don’t know about you, but after I receive my parcels, I do not rush to clad myself in the sticky mess of tape bundled around them.
However, DHL and Vetements have a longstanding partnership, with other looks in their shows across the years incorporating the DHL logo and its iconic red and yellow tape – said by DHL’s head of marketing, Arjan Sissing, to be a nod to the reliability of DHL in (literally) delivering fashion to the global consumer. So, it might be time to start saving your parcel wrapping in the future (or maybe you’ll just use it as your next ‘Anything But Clothes’ university social costume).
Anok Yai picked up the full skirt of her wedding dress look and dashed, rather gracefully, back down the runway
Finally, I couldn’t mention the highlights of the week without revisiting the dramatic moment when supermodel Anok Yai picked up the full skirt of her wedding dress look and dashed, rather gracefully, back down the runway to close the same Vetements show.
Owing the moment to a wardrobe malfunction in which her heels were not high enough to stop her from tripping on the gown, Yai took the initiative to become ‘the runaway bride’, arguably doing the dress far more justice as we saw it billow out behind her – and perhaps cementing her as the daring, creative and stunning frontrunner for Model of the Year. And at that, roll on March 2025 for our next glimpse into Paris’s world of couture!
