A Look At The Season’s Most Inventive, Witty, And Beautifully Crafted Invitations — The First Clues To The Stories Designers Set In Motion
Fashion show invitations have become their own miniature discipline — part branding exercise, part mise-en-scène, part love letter to the world a designer is about to reveal. In an industry where first impressions matter almost as much as the clothes, these objects set the tone long before the runway lights switch on. Some tease a narrative, some flex craftsmanship, others simply delight in the power of surprise. Taken together, they form a parallel season of ingenuity and imagination.
Here are The Impression’s picks for the Best Fashion Show Invitations of 2025.
Louis Vuitton Men’s
Spring 2026
A set of monogrammed dice was Pharrell’s way of saying the game was already in motion — a playful, tactile clue to his life-size Snakes and Ladders runway. Equal parts luxury trinket and philosophical teaser, the dice framed the show’s themes of chance, risk, and evolution with Vuitton’s signature polish. A children’s game reborn through Damier logic? Exactly the kind of cosmic optimism that defines the “LVERS” worldview.
Prada Men’s
Fall 2025
Leave it to Prada to make a hunk of scaffolding poetic. The tiny metal tube tucked inside a white box hinted at the season’s tension between raw construction and human softness — an industrial wink at clubs, work sites, and spaces where life feels beautifully unfinished. Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons turned a piece of hardware into a breadcrumb trail toward their study of duality, desire, and the elegant mess of modern masculinity.
Bottega Veneta
Spring 2026
Louise Trotter announced her arrival with a smart, sustainable flex: a flat sheet of leather guests could fold into a stitch-free mini tote. It was part puzzle, part craft demonstration — a modern riff on Bottega’s storied Intrecciato and a pointed move away from disposable paper invites. Functional, chic, and instantly Instagrammed, the invitation worked exactly like the best Bottega accessories: quietly brilliant and unmistakably luxurious.
Dior
Spring 2026
Jonathan Anderson’s debut came on a ceramic plate — literally. The surreal dish, topped with three hyperreal nuts sourced from the Dior archives, doubled as both appetizer and metaphor. Fragile yet enduring, archival yet newly reimagined, it hinted at Anderson’s fascination with “boxing and unboxing history,” turning Dior’s heritage into objects to be touched, handled, and rearranged. A beautifully odd entrée into a new era.
Louis Vuitton Men’s
Fall 2025
Pharrell and Nigo distilled their “Phriendship” energy into a collectible leather-and-metal tag that felt equal parts workwear relic and Vuitton trunk hardware. With subtle embossing and aged metal accents, it carried whispers of fishing trips, shared archives, and the cultural bridge between Japan and America. Durable, intimate, and slyly stylish, it wasn’t just an invite — it was a small keepsake of the bond driving the collection.
Chanel – Spring 2026
Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel era began with a silver house pendant that doubled as a peephole into the future. Guests lifted the charm to their eye to glimpse show details, turning the invitation into a tiny cinematic portal. Equal parts whimsy and precision, it hinted at Blazy’s collision of house codes with cosmic curiosity — an intimate, imaginative promise that Chanel was ready to explore new worlds while keeping its roots close.
