The London Fashion Week runways tend to be rich in youthful eccentricity, playful maximalism and true creativity, and the Spring 2025 edition, which wrapped up Tuesday, was no exception. While the city may be filled with independent thinkers like Jonathan Anderson, Simone Rocha, Harris Reed and Chopova Lowena, a slew of overlapping trends still emerged.
New York’s fixations on pastel pink and bras-as-outerwear continued across the pond, as did the resurgence of aughties trends like bubble hems and visible underwear creating a double-waistband effect. Earthy browns were intriguingly ubiquitous in London, as were big, padded and rounded shoulders, reminiscent of football gear.
Keep scrolling for the biggest Spring 2025 trends from London Fashion Week.
Earthy Browns
From sleek chocolate at 16 Arlington to rusty auburn at Mark Fast, mud-like brown hues were all over the London runways, sometimes giving an “ugly-chic” vibe.
16Arlington Spring 2025. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Visibile Lingerie
The underwear-as-outwear trend was strong on London’s Spring 2025 runways. Designers and their stylists found creative ways to reveal bras in particular, either letting them peek out from under dresses at Erdem and Huishan Zhang, or worn solo as tops at Simone Rocha and Nensi Dojaka (the latter of which designed lingerie in collaboration with Calvin Klein).
16Arlington Spring 2025. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Muted Pinks
Are we returning to the era of Millennial Pink already? Pale pinks have been all over the runways, street style and the red carpet lately. London designers like Marques Almeida, Erdem and Emilia Wickstead favored muted shades of pink that, while feminine, don’t veer too Barbie or childlike.
Marques’Almeida Spring 2025. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Double Waistbands
Harkening back to ’90s rappers, that iconic Kate Moss-Mark Wahlberg Calvin Klein campaign, boys in my high school and recent Miu Miu collections, low-slung bottoms with underwear peeking out were popular in London. The double-waistband effect can go relaxed and grungy (Jawara Alleyne), sexy (Masha Povova) or sweet and girly (Yuhan Wang) depending on the styling.
Ahluwalia Spring 2025. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Bubble Hems
The resurgence of early-aughts bubble hems is going strong among London’s most playful designers, like Ashley Williams, Simone Rocha and Yuhan Wang. We also saw a few of those banded bubble hems we’d almost blocked out of our memories thanks to JW Anderson and Sinead Gorey.
Ashley Williams Spring 2025. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Dresses over Pants, and Skirts, and Everything
Another early-aughts styling choice making a comeback is dresses-over-pants. But London designers didn’t limit themselves with this trend, and also layered dresses, skirts and other items over each other, creating the womenswear runway version of “Look at me I’m Chandler, could I be wearing any more clothes?”
Ashley Williams Spring 2025. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Scrunched-up Fabric
London designers flexed their ruching, pleating and draping skills to add texture and dimension to dresses in soft fabrics. At Knwls and Chet Lo, this gave garments more of an athletic feel with drawstrings; Di Petsa’s scrunched-up garments almost appeared wet and frozen; and Tove and 16 Arlington went in a more elegant, Grecian direction.
16Arlington Spring 2025. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Round, Padded Shoulders
Bomber and military-style jackets and vests were all over London’s Spring 2025 runways, with many designers emboldening the shoulders with a little extra padding. There were subtler versions of this, like at Burberry and Tolu Coker, and extreme ones, like at Yuhan Wang.
Ahluwalia Spring 2025. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
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