Top 10 Couture Shows of Spring 2025 as chosen by our EIC, Kenneth Richard
Like every couture week, Spring 2025 was a feast of artistry and craftsmanship, showcasing the imagination and precision of the world’s most elite atelier’s. But this season was also a window into the pulse of fashion. While it’s true that couture moves much slower than ready-to-wear, there were moments of newness – like Alessandro Michele’s elaborate and theatrical debut for Valentino, a final studio-designed Chanel collection before the arrival of Matthieu Blazy, or Maria Grazia Chiuri’s change of direction at Dior – that reflected the industry’s meta-trend of a conversation between individual creative personality and legendary design legacies.
With his guest collection for Jean Paul Gaultier, Ludovic de Saint Sernin deconstructed the brand’s iconic nautical themes by crafting the sexiest shipwrecked crew to ever to wash ashore.
It’s very rare that our Editor-in-Chief Kenneth Richard doesn’t have just one choice for the best show of the week, but there were two winning collections. At Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri moved in a more sculptural and daring – sometimes even almost punkish – direction, while Schiaparelli’s Daniel Roseberry dialed back the stunts for a sublime statement on how history can save us from the mundanity of modernity.
Here are The Impression’s picks for the Top 10 shows of the Spring 2025 Couture season as selected by our Editor-in-Chief, Kenneth Richard.
10 – RVDK Ronald Van Der Kemp
9 – Ashi Studio
8 – Alexandre Vauthier
7 – Viktor & Rolf
6 – Elie Saab
5 – Chanel
4 – Stéphane Rolland
3 – Jean Paul Gaultie
2 – Valentino
1 – Schiaparelli
1 – Dior
