Each season, we break down everything you need to know about the new collections in The Fashion Week Cheat Sheet. After speaking to the designers about their inspiration, their hero pieces, the faces on the catwalk and the names on the front row, we present your complete guide to spring/summer 2025.
Victoria Beckham this season decided to explore the act of getting dressed with a collection that celebrated both the way we choose to wear our clothes, and the way our bodies interact with these garments.
Presenting a collection that exaggerated the shapes and movement of the human body, and one which played with the idea of nudity, the designer presented draped dresses, slashed separates and underwear as outerwear.
Of course, the show was as star-studded as ever with Beckham's famous family on the front row to support, and supermodel Gigi Hadid strutting her stuff on the catwalk. Scroll down to discover more about the collection, and head here for a round-up of all the Paris shows.
Theme and inspiration
"The art of dressing begins with the act of dressing," the brand said in the show notes of Beckham's inspiration for the new season, which was a musing on how we choose to get dressed every morning. But, this was also a collection that looked at our relationship with our bodies. "Every day, within the intimacy of our wardrobes, women experiment with the dynamics between body and clothes. For spring/summer 2025, Victoria Beckham evolves her exploration of the wardrobe not only as a space in which we dress but where we undress, too."
The collection played with the idea of dress and undress through dramatic slits in trousers and skirts, folded down or undone waistbands, jackets that showed their own construction, sliced hemlines and underwear worn as outerwear. The silhouettes too took their cue from the body, aiming to amplify the sensuality of the body's movement: "The creations serve as extensions of the body: rigid second skins hovering over the undressed anatomy." Other pieces were superimposed away from the body to mimic the way we hold up a garment in the mirror to see if it fits.
"Examining this daily ritual familiar to every woman across styles and self-expressions, the collection observes the physical relationship between skin and garment," the brand said. "The study unfolds in a celebration of the naked form conveyed in real and illusory states of undress. The manifestations inspire reflections on our individual understandings of the sensual, seductive and sexy, and our instinctive ideas of what it means to be and feel ‘dressed’."
Hero pieces
The green silk Atonement-like dress that Gigi Hadid wore was everywhere across social media just moments after it appeared on the catwalk and, rather cleverly, it was the only dress that was available to shop immediately after the show.
The setting
The show took place in the orangerie of the Chateau de Bagatelle, a small Neoclassical-style château in the heart of Paris.
Who was there?
Of course, the entire Beckham clan was in attendance to support Victoria, including David, Harper, Cruz, Romeo, Brooklyn and his wife Nicola Peltz-Beckham. Meanwhile, Barbara Palvin, Helena Christensen and Nina Dobrev were on the front row, and Hadid was on the catwalk.
