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9 Spring Summer 2025 Runway Trends To Inspire Your Warm Weather Wardrobe

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The Spring Summer 2025 season is officially coming to a close. Flies on the wall in the ELLE Australia office over the past month would have overheard us gushing about the fresh trends we plan to embrace this summer. As always, the street style had us adding a few new staple and statement pieces to our wardrobes, with the street style at Milan Fashion Week alone dominating an entire morning meeting.

It’s a welcomed feeling, since we had such a strong start at the unofficial fifth fashion week in August, in Copenhagen. With that said, we’ve of course been particularly watchful of what emerging and heritage Houses have sent down the runway in New York, London, Milan, and Paris.

With comforting colourways, like one we’re calling ‘The New Brown’, plus flouncy skirts, interesting hemlines, and reimagined silhouettes made famous a century ago, there is plenty to take inspiration from.

Ahead, find our favourite trends from the Spring Summer 2025 shows.

The New Brown

As the London Fashion Week street style started to trickle through, we declared that all we want to wear right now is a brown designer handbag. Two weeks on, we’re happy to report that brown will be expanding from our bag collections to our entire wardrobes. We’ve been particularly charmed by the warmer, lighter tone of brown emerging, offering a tonal reprieve from the darker chocolate browns we’ve embraced for the past few seasons.

At Luar, this was confirmed, with sculptural blazers and oversized suede handbags all featured in the collection. Of course, we couldn’t pay homage to the caramel-brown colourway without mentioning Miu Miu, who has revived the type of weathered, oversized, and overstuffed bags that even Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen would be proud of.

Luar Spring Summer 25
Image: Luar Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2025. Image: Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Miu Miu Spring Summer 25
Image: Miu Miu Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2025. Credit: Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Mini Hemlines

Though shorter hemlines may often be reserved for warmer months, we’re firm believers that a well-cut mini (skirt, dress, or shorts) is suitable for all seasons and occasions, with the right styling. This was proven true during fashion month. At Coach, satin minis were dressed down with weathered dad caps, crew socks, and sneakers. Meanwhile, at Sandy Liang, feminine shift dresses were paired with Y2K-inspired pumps, frilly bags, and sparkling chokers.

Coach Spring Summer 25
Image: Coach Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2025. Credit: Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Sandy Liang SS25
Image: Sandy Liang Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2025. Credit: Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Double Denim

The words ‘double denim’ may evoke images of a young Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake walking the 2001 American Music Awards red carpet in top-to-toe mid-wash denim. But for SS25, the Canadian tuxedo has had a refresh with Simone Rocha adding dazzling rhinestone embellishments to a dark-wash short and jacket set and Hui adding floral print details and denim bows to a double denim set.

Simone Rocha Spring Summer 25
Image: Simone Rocha Spring/Summer 2025. Credit: Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Hui Spring Summer 25
Image: Hui Spring/Summer 2025. Credit: Pietro D’Aprano/Getty Images

Handkerchief Hems

Handkerchief hems were popular a century ago, in the 1920s, and again in the early 2010s. So, it feels appropriate that the silhouette would make its mark on the runways this year, given the increased speed of the trend cycle. Gauzy layering was extremely popular this season, and that translated into shredded handkerchief hems (at Avavav), sorbet-hued skirts (at Chanel), and sheer dresses with floor-skimming asymmetric hems (at Peter Do), to name just three of many runways where this nostalgic style reemerged.

Fashion Week Spring Summer 25
Image: Chanel Paris Womenswear Spring-Summer 2025. Credit: Kristy Sparow/WireImage via Getty Images
Spring Summer 25
Image: Peter Do Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2025. Credit: Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Spring Summer 2025
Image: Avavav Spring/Summer 2025. Image: Justin Shin/Getty Images

Skinny Pants

In late August, we declared that skinny jeans were officially making their way back into our wardrobes, just a few short years after falling out of favour. Based on the SS25 runways, the slim silhouette won’t just be present in our denim drawers, with skinny tailoring and skin-tight stockings all making their comeback on the runways.

At Miu Miu and Tod’s, tailored trousers featured a slimmer silhouette than in recent seasons where wide-leg pants were the prevailing style. Now, low-rise skinny trousers with pooling hems were styled predominantly with sandals, for a casual yet polished summer work look.

Tod's Spring Summer 2025
Image: Tod’s Spring/Summer 2025. Credit: Pietro D’Aprano/Getty Images
Miu Miu Spring Summer 2025
Image: Miu Miu Spring Summer 2025. Credit: Estrop/Getty Images

Butter Yellow

The versatility of butter yellow was proven at the SS25 shows. At Coperni, Lila Moss’ look made a case for the ’90s lilac and yellow colour combination, wearing a dress that features a yellow bodysuit swathed in a gauzy purple slip, and feathered embellishments. Meanwhile, the structured butter yellow coat at Prada had us immediately searching for a yellow suit to wear to important meetings this summer.

Paris Fashion Week
Image: Lila Moss walks the runway during the Coperni Paris Womenswear Spring-Summer 2025. Credit: Justin Shin/WireImage via Getty Images
Prada Spring Summer 25
Image: Prada Spring/Summer 2025. Image: Daniele Venturelli/WireImage via Getty Images

Sports Jackets

Form and function collide with the emergence of sports jackets on the runways for SS25. Windbreakers, sports jackets, and utility jackets all appeared, but most interestingly, they weren’t reserved for active or relaxed outfits.

Amelia Gray’s look at The Attico is a case in point for this, with a butter yellow (a trending hue of the season) and black sports jacket featuring tiered balloon sleeves and an asymmetric zipper paired with a sheer, feathered slip skirt. Prada also followed suit, styling a grey utility jacket with belted stockings, pumps, and a feminine ruffled bandeau.

Spring Summer 25
Image: Amelia Gray walks the runway at The Attico Spring/Summer 2025. Credit: Estrop/Getty Images
Prada SS25
Image: Prada Spring/Summer 2025. Credit: Estrop/Getty Images

The Updated Flapper Dress

Fringe detailing was included in seemingly every collection at the SS25 shows, with glittering fringe skirts at Louis Vuitton, technicoloured fringe jackets at Missoni, and more subtle lines of fringe at Gucci. But as we watched each fringed garment sway down the runway, we found our eyes straying towards the more updated flapper style of dress in particular.

At Andreadamo, the ‘going out’ dress was updated with ombré brown fringe (accompanied by a suitably glossed body that reminds us of sweaty nights spent on a dancefloor), and at Fendi, the longline flapper dress featured a geometric print and delicate fringe at the hem.

Andreadamo SPring Summer 25
Image: Andreadamo Spring/Summer 2025. Credit: Alena Zakirova/Getty Images
Fendi Spring Summer 25
Image: Fendi Spring/Summer 2025. Credit: Pietro D’Aprano/Getty Images

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