Spring-Summer 2025 collections reflect a playful edge and a sense of unseriousness that summer dressing should be all about.
Design houses have placed self-expression at the core of their creations while still honouring craftsmanship and versatility. Whether it’s reintroducing colours we once loved or experimenting with silhouettes that aren’t conventionally paired together, this season’s trends offer something for every style sensibility.
After making a splash in 2020 by appearing in the summer collections of brands like Jacquemus and Bottega Veneta, butter yellow is back, basking in the balmy summer sun. Recently, supermodel Kendall Jenner was spotted wearing this creamy pastel hue at Coachella.
Dressed in a now sold-out Proenza Schouler drop-waist midi dress, the reality star further confirmed the whipped butter tone’s comeback. The perfect shade between beige and lemon found its space on multiple runways. At Chloé, Chemena Kamali layered a boho-chic ivory dress with a pale butter yellow jacket.
The Alaïa full-length jumpsuit is tailor-made for modest dressers looking for statement-making pieces this summer. Toteme’s straight-fit dress with scarf-like layering is another strong contender for your next beachside vacation in the South of France.
The cool-girl way of doing utilitarian-chic this summer is by blurring the boundary between skirts and pants entirely to embrace the skirt-over-trouser look. Before moving on to Chanel, Matthieu Blazy introduced a few of these hybrid silhouettes in Bottega Veneta’s Spring-Summer 2025 presentation.
An asymmetrical skirt in a concrete colourway, layered over a pair of straight-fit pants in the same shade, punctuated with an oversized pinstripe shirt in periwinkle blue – if this isn’t an ideal summer workwear outfit, what is? Matthieu also added a few more iterations in terms of colours and styles for a broader range of choice.
At Monse, Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia applied this trend in the most Gen-Z way – a broad-striped cropped T-shirt in a strawberry-matcha combination, teamed with khaki brown trousers and a pleated mini skirt with a cut-out detail at the waist. Whether you want to polish it up or dress it down, there are multiple ways to incorporate this trend into your summer style.
The quintessential fall pattern breaks seasonal rules by emerging as a key player for spring. Brands like Tommy Hilfiger and Tod’s have reimagined traditional plaid in lightweight fabrics and unexpected colour combinations to create pieces that feel freshly appropriate for warmer months.
Pocketed plaid trousers, styled with an oversized cropped trench coat in signature Burberry hues, felt both relaxed yet refined. This isn’t the grunge plaid of decades past, but rather a sophisticated interpretation that works for both office settings and weekend wear.
