London Fashion Week 2025
London Fashion Week 2025: Trends, Designers, London’s Unique Vibe & Fashion’s Cultural Dialogue
London has a way of hosting you differently each season. It shows you a state of mind. Every show space feels like the city itself is opening a new chapter, reminding you that fashion here is not only about design but about dialogue.
As someone who’s grown up in fashion, I see London Fashion Week as more than a schedule of shows. It’s the city’s diverse culture. What makes London unique is its ability to shift perspective: one moment it’s heritage and romance, the next it’s grit, rebellion, and pure experimentation.
This season, London Fashion Week 2025 was about identity, cultural commentary, and the ongoing question of what fashion means in our lives today. The city, as always, reminded us that fashion is both a mirror and a megaphone — reflecting society while amplifying its contradictions.
Trends to Watch
• Sculpted Forms & Poetry: This season, structure became storytelling. Erdem worked with sculpted silhouettes that blended refinement and surrealism. Dilara Fındıkoğlu carved the body into rebellion: corseted bodices, gothic shapes, and theatrical exaggerations that made her women appear like warriors of their own mythology.
• Flair Skirts Are Back: Toga, Chopova Lowena, and Simone Rocha reminded us that skirts can be both sculptural and playful. Volumes were exaggerated, lengths were mixed nostalgia met progressiveness on the runway.
• Sheer, Sheer, Sheer: Transparent shirts and dresses weren’t just about sex appeal—they were a statement. Layering bralettes under sheer fabrics screamed visibility and confidence, while questioning what fashion is hiding or revealing.
• Textures That Speak: Fringe, Shirring, metallics, velvet—texture dominated, Embellishments were the distinctive details.
Designers Who Defined the Week
• Simone Rocha balanced romantic lace and corsetry with jagged cuts and sheer layering, soft rebellion at its most refined.
• Erdem, celebrating 20 years, sculpted silhouettes from history — corsetry, organza, and surrealist references — turning dresses into architectural statements.
• Dilara Fındıkoğlu pushed sculpted forms further, creating armor-like corseted bodices, exaggerated hips, and gothic detail that felt both theatrical and untouchable.
• Roksanda looked inward to her archives, reintroducing painterly colour and draped sculptural lines with a 20-year perspective.
• Burberry / Daniel Lee redefined heritage with rebellion: crochet beading, chainmail Burberry checks, and festival-meets-grunge dresses staged in Kensington Palace Gardens.
• Paul Costelloe nodded to 1960s glam, while Bora Aksu celebrated fragility with broken-doll aesthetics, lace, and embroidery.
• Ahluwalia told a cultural story, blending Bollywood colour palettes with Shakespearean drama.
• Emerging voices like Oscar Ouyang, George Keburia, and Fashion East’s stable brought risk, sustainability-first fabrics, and fearless energy.
Colours & Textures to Know
• Citric & Neon Greens (Chartreuse): A restless, acidic green flickered through collections at Burberry, Erdem, and Simone Rocha.
• Blush & Rose Tones: From delicate pastels to unapologetic hot pinks, colour here carried confidence and subversion.
• Metallics & Chainmail: Reflective textures gave clothes an edge of protection and power, pushing luxury into the futuristic.
• Transparency: Sheer layers revealed structure and meaning, not just skin — making fragility a new form of strength.
• Texture Play: Lace against hardware, velvet against silk, fringe and feathers against minimalist tailoring — the city thrived in contrasts.
London’s Unique Stages
• Barbican Conservatory for Susan Fang: futuristic greenery in a brutalist glasshouse.
• Kensington Palace Gardens for Burberry: part heritage, part festival.
• Hidden East London Studios for emerging designers: graffiti-splashed walls, industrial textures, and underground energy.
London reminded us that set design is no longer just backdrop — it’s narrative.