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BoF editors select the best shows of the Spring-Summer 2025 season.

The intense political moment found its way onto the runway, wittingly or unwittingly, reports Lynn Yaeger.

The couture week that closed Thursday was all about technique over image, writes Angelo Flaccavento.

A couple of days in Paris paraded some fabulous solutions to those perennial questions.

Couture Week was a polarised affair, opposing restraint and excess, technique and showmanship, real clothes and wild storytelling, with little in between, writes Angelo Flaccavento.

How does haute couture cope in Paris when real life intrudes, asks Tim Blanks.

Casey Cadwallader and Pieter Mulier prove that iconic design signatures can be rewritten for a new age.

Tradition coursed through the veins of Paris couture week with few outliers, reports Angelo Flaccavento.

The first days of the Paris couture shows offered subliminal reflections of other times and places when things were just as bad as they are now, writes Tim Blanks.

The Milan fashion week that ended in silence today put Italy at the centre of the fashion conversation, reports Angelo Flaccavento.