Predictions for New York Fashion Week

With Autumn/ Winter Couture Week upon us and the Men’s fashion season wrapping up, it’s time to look towards what we can expect for THE upcoming fashion weeks, starting with A/W 25 New York Fashion Week.

Coach S/S 25

New York Fashion Week usually opens and sets the tone for the upcoming season by blending innovation, nostalgia, and cultural commentary. For Spring/Summer 2025, several overarching themes of patriotism, maximalism, sustainability, quiet luxury, gender fluidity, and Y2K nostalgia emerged. This reflected the designers’ responses to current global events, evolving tastes, and creative experimentation happening at that time.

Ralph Lauren S/S 25

A suite of executive orders and new foreign policies passed by President Trump has already caused significant disrupt in the U.S. So, it would be an understatement to say that this A/W 25 fashion week will have a much more politically charged message. In fact, it would not be surprising if many designers took this opportunity for outright political activism especially when it comes to showcasing gender fluidity on their runways. What will be especially intriguing is whether or not this new wave of conservatism reverts us back to the era defining quiet luxury movement or bring us into a 2010’s esque wave of extreme maximalism.