Recap Haute Couture Fall Winter 2024-2025 Fashion Week: A Checklist of Epicness. Story by Eleonora de Gray, Editor-in-Chief of RUNWAY MAGAZINE.
Ah, the grandiose world of haute couture. It’s where fashion dreams are supposed to come true, but sometimes, those dreams look a bit more like a fever dream from the imagination of a very stressed-out fashionista. Let’s dive into the memorable moments (or lack thereof) from the Haute Couture Fall Winter 2024-2025 fashion week, shall we? Here’s your ultimate checklist:
✔️ Thom Browne: The Art of Undone Elegance
Thom Browne once again graced us with his signature “undone” looks at the Opera Garnier. Imagine the elegance of a swan, but one that’s just a tad disheveled after a long night out. It’s fabulously unique, as always, and we pretend to understand the high art of it all. Check.
✔️ Chanel: The New Beginning
Chanel decided to shake things up this year by relying on the sketches of the late Karl Lagerfeld, executed by Chanel fashion design studio. It’s like assembling Ikea furniture without the instructions – intriguing and slightly terrifying. But hey, it worked! Chanel was hailed as the new triumph in haute couture. Check.
✔️ Giorgio Armani: Fabulous, Darling!
Giorgio Armani never disappoints. His collection was as dazzling as ever, making us all wish we could drape ourselves in his fabrics and live our best lives. The man knows how to make a statement. Check.
✔️ Dior: A Snooze Fest
Dior, on the other hand, decided to take a nap this season, as it was in previous one. It’s just like never ending soup-opera. The collection was so dull it made beige look exciting. The only drama here was in waiting for the show to end. Someone needs to wake Dior up. Check.
✔️ Balenciaga: From Ebay to Runway
Balenciaga‘s collection looked like it was sourced straight from Ebay’s garbage track, but don’t worry, they spiced it up with a drag performance. Enter an actor dressed as Miranda Priestly, the movie character played by Meryl Streep from “The Devil Wears Prada,” who is the Editor-in-Chief of RUNWAY MAGAZINE. She delivered lines sharper than Balenciaga’s stitching. If you squinted, you might have seen fashion history being made, or just a lot of confused expressions. Check.
✔️ Alexis Mabille: The Dita Von Teese Show
Alexis Mabille’s show was… well, who cares about the clothes when you have Dita Von Teese performing a pin-up act in a giant martini glass? Stripping in front of the audience, she stole the show and probably several Instagram stories. Fashion? What fashion? This was a spectacle. Check.
✔️ And That’s a Wrap! Recap Haute Couture Fall Winter 2024-2025
Haute Couture fashion week came and went like a glittery whirlwind. We saw the undone elegance, the triumphs, the boredom, the Ebay scavenger hunts, and the pin-up martini baths. It was everything we expected and didn’t know we needed. Until next season, fashion lovers!
But wait, there’s more! Enter MIV – the imaginative Media Impact Value, a brilliant invention by marketers “Lunch Matrix” (Launchmetrics). They’re publishing reports that add imaginary monetary value (in millions of dollars, I might add) to the images splashed across media and social networks. And here’s the kicker: these guys are not shy. Each image from the fashion houses like Dior, for example, is worth millions of imaginative dollars (not real ones, of course). Because in the end, who needs real money or real value when you have all that fabulous imagination? Haute Couture, everybody?!
Even more! They assigns imaginary dollar values to pictures and claims to measure their impact and effectiveness. This self-proclaimed key player in the fashion, luxury, and beauty industries offers imaginative tools to optimize brand performance across various channels. Because nothing screams “serious business” like putting random price tag on some Instagram posts. Welcome to the magical world where marketing fairy dust turns every photo into a pot of gold—imaginative, of course, because this pot has nothing to do with actual sales or real impact. But hey, let’s be serious about that!
So there you have it, folks. Haute Couture Fall Winter 2024-2025 fashion week: a checklist of epic (and epically confusing) proportions. Check, check, and check.
