In the endless cycle of fashion, each era has left a unique footprint. Fashion is not just a choice of clothing, but also a way of expressing personality and attitude. From designer flashes of inspiration to popular street trends, the fashion trends of 2025 will surely bring us an unprecedented visual feast and aesthetic experience. In this article, let’s explore how these exciting trends will define the future of style and aesthetics.
Color
Coloro x WGSN S/S 26
2026 will be a year of redirection, when old ideas will be challenged as people push for urgent change in how we treat our societies, arrange our industries and work with our environments. For colour, this will be reflected in a mix of urgent brights, earthy and offbeat naturals, and calming tinted tones.
Colour of the Year 2026, Transformative Teal aligns with the eco-accountability that will increasingly be demanded by consumers.
Electric Fuchsia is a vivid neon with a kinetic and digital quality.
Blue Aura is a tinted pastel with a soothing yet modern character.
Amber Haze is a green-toned yellow with a rich and radiant quality that feels both embracing and energising.
Jelly Mint is a buoyant hue with a youthful quality.
Coloro x WGSN A/W 25/26
Acceleration is the overarching theme driving our A/W 25/26 Global Colour Forecast. As the climate crisis brings chaos and strange omens of decline (orange skies, green oceans), we will see an acceleration of change, both good and bad. Urgency, repair and reassurance will be necessities in this new reality, as is reflected in our A/W 25/26 colours.”
Celestial Yellow is a bright, glowing color that feels both calming and a bit dreamy.
Cherry Lacquer is a rich, rebellious dark color that feels luxurious.
Retro Blue is a quirky, old-school color with a cozy and nostalgic feel.
Neon Flare is a bright, dynamic color with a synthetic feel.
Future Dusk, a color between blue and purple, fits this theme, bringing a mysterious and dreamy vibe with its dark and moody qualities.
ELEMENTS
Style Trends: Girl Core
Marrying baby doll and ballet core influences, the coquette aesthetic lends a touch of naivety to women’s wardrobes. The trend channels pure femininity, punctuated by an invasion of bows and pastel pink.
Key words: Baby doll, Ballet core, Bows, Pastel pink
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Style Trends: Romantic Summer
Inspired by European piazzas, the Riviera and sunny weather, fashion this summer is leaning towards airy, transparent, romantic styles with feminine charm. Polka dots, flowers, fruit and holiday patterns on linen sets and dresses with puff collars are particularly popular, especially those from European labels, according to the report.
Key words: Polka dots, Flowers, Fruit, Holiday patterns
Cecile Bahnsen SS24 (left and right), Molly Goddard SS24 (centre) Credits: ©Launchmetrics/spotlight
Style Trends: Oily Florals (Spring/Summer 25 Trend)
Plays with paint in accentuated brushstrokes and heavy oily paint application.
Rich saturated colours, a paler palette of creamy whites and soft pastels.
Prada’s official website posters and their summer collection all use this oily florals style.
Style Trends: Floral Couture
British footwear and accessories brand Kurt Geiger has launched a limited-edition collection in collaboration with floral artist Tattie Isles.
The 60-piece ‘Floral Couture’ capsule collection draws inspiration from the romance, myth, and magic of the quintessential English countryside and features Isles’ hand-painted silk design print, exclusively created for Kurt Geiger, which uses oil pastels to depict blooms such as foxgloves, anemones, pansies, and dahlias.
Kurt Geiger ‘Floral Couture’ capsule collection
Credits: Kurt Geiger
Style Trends: Linear Markings
Spring/Summer 25 Trend
A mix of vertical stripes, hatchings, linear waves and doodles either straight and geometric or bending and contouring
Style Trends: Sports Play
Just in time for the European Championships in Germany, football fever has once again conquered fashion. In addition, the Paris Olympics will be held in Paris soon, so the popularity of sports elements will continue to grow.
‘Sports Play’ is about mixing up sports inspired fashion, something best executed by combining colourful jerseys, light track jackets and shorts of all sports with otherwise casual cool outfits, consisting of jorts and simple sneakers. The trend is most evidently shown in the surge in demand for vintage sportswear on the platform, so mething brands such as Aime Leon Dore, Adidas, Nike and New Balance all profit from.
Casablanca SS24 (left and right), Ottolinger SS24 (centre) Bild: ©Launchmetrics/spotlight
Style Trends: Sports Play
Sports fashion will continue to advance at the forefront of technology and innovation.
The technological colors this season will further lead the new trend, with vibrant colors widely used to create energetic pieces.
This season aims to seamlessly integrate future technology with sports fashion, creating a new direction that leads the trend of sports fashion.
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Style Trends: Denim
In this new era, the focus is on quality craftsmanship rather than flashy frills, also on diversity and high-end details. In addition, large corporations are making way for young, authentic fashion houses. For denim looks, this can be seen in androgynous outfits with diamonds as details here and there and in upcycled denim garments. “It’s OK to be normal” is the message here.
Style Trends: Sequins and Metal Details
Metallic accents continued to shine bright on the runway, with designers incorporating sequin details and metal embellishments into their collections.
Zimmerman and Gucci showcased large sequins for added drama, while Elie Saab embraced fully sequined dresses for a glamorous look. Alberta Ferretti and Louis Vuitton experimented with metal details, adding a touch of edge to their designs.
FABRICS
Fabrics Trends: Evolving Color Palettes
In the season’s designs, a post-industrial mood pushes us to reconsider the role of synthetic colors in palettes, and to re-explore their use and functions. Handcraft techniques traditionally associated with the natural and raw aspect of materials are revisited in bright and sophisticated color ranges offset with neutrals, while ribbons, zippers and buttons with designs inspired by basketry, weaving and other handicrafts skew more minimalist thanks to synthetic hues.
For leather, the theme carries over to braided surfaces. Raffia effects feature bold contrasts in lieu of natural hues, and the natural character of skins and the artisanal aspect of finishes are disrupted by the use of graphic chromatic repetitive patterns. In textiles, tweeds feature regular, precise designs in sharply defined colors.
Fabrics Trends: Precious neutrals
Neutrals are increasingly being adopted across all clothing categories, influenced in part by the rise in undyed materials as a natural alternative to chemical dyes. A staple of cotton ranges, city wardrobes and, increasingly, sportswear, this season are suffusing more delicate materials.
Beige and brown tones take pride of place in Spring-Summer 25 harmonies, translated into more sensual expressions. Combined with creams and oranges, these natural hues take on a more decorative, romantic aspect in silks, jacquards, laces, prints and embroideries… explored in tone-on-tone, bicolor and monochrome treatments on precious materials or through plays on transparency.
Fabrics Trends: Heightened Tactility
Mutation is at work in the Spring-Summer 25 collections. Volumes and textures verging on the abstract and experimental reflect a pursuit of the extraordinary. Fabrics and materials are increasingly dry and textured, with ever more wrinkles and folds. Surfaces seem transformed, with magnified cloqués, seersuckers and fringes for heightened tactility. A new grunge vocabulary is emerging, one that’s opulent and maximal, decompartmentalized and unclassifiable. Strangeness is taking precedence over classic beauty codes, making room for boldness, exceptionalness, and strong, confidently assumed identities.
Fabrics Trends: Sustainability Decodings
Safeguarding nature
The use of natural animal and plant fibers is targeting more sustainable agricultural models. While various certification bodies, such as GOTS, Good Earth Cotton, Regenagri, and voluntary sustainability standards, like Better Cotton, set forth different requirements, the goal is to achieve maximum compliance with commitments targeting water conservation, biodiversity and land revitalization.
Renewable synthetics
Processing polyamide, polyester and elastane faces three major challenges: reducing dependence on fossil fuels, reducing the dispersion of plastic micro-particles, and facilitating recycling and biodegradability. Recycled elastane, the first ecological alternative to conventional stretch, has now been surpassed in terms of environmental performance by elastic filaments with faster biodegradability, made from renewable resources or recycled production waste.
Fabrics Trends: Sustainability Leather
Ingenious Transformations
While circularity is integral to leather development, given that this raw material is a co-product of the agri-food industry, tanners are taking circularity one step further, from the supply of tannins right through to the product’s end-of-life. Vegetable co-products such as olives, grape pulp, tea or barley and wheat spent grains from beer brewing are finding new uses as tanning agents and ingredients in bio-sourced finishes. They also have the virtue of being able to color skins naturally over the course of treatments while eliminating a coloring step. Recycling is further enhanced by the reuse of deadstock for responsible capsule collections. Production offcuts are transformed into new resources to develop recycled leather panels with natural binding agents or innovative yarns with leather particles, a new ingredient for knitted sneaker uppers. Biodegradable qualities find a new outlet as compost to nouri sh the soil in the final stage of the product life cycle.
SS25 Leather: Naturalness in color
For the Spring-Summer 2025 season, leathers display bright, luminous colors and transparent finishes with fine, supple skins worked in a range of delicately nuanced powdery pastels.
The season’s textured skins are strikingly modern. Breaking with the classic leather palette, the color range moves between pastels and bright, summery tones.
From the revival of vintage to the fusion of technology, from environmental advocacy to the promotion of diversity, the SS25 fashion trends showcase the infinite creativity and possibilities of the fashion world. As new design concepts and sustainable development initiatives become more and more integrated into the mainstream of fashion, the road ahead is full of hope and challenges. No matter how much time passes, the charm of fashion will always lie in its continuous innovation and transcendence!
