Rabanne’s Fall-Winter 2025 collection invites us inward, to explore secrets, protection, and safety. Each look plays to a greater discussion; material, shape, and color convey the contrast and harmony of what’s at our core versus our surface. 

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On the runway of Paris Fashion Week, we are presented with already loveable elements—grandiose furs, definitive streamlined tailoring, and chromatic sequins. The runway begins with tightly tailored coats, double-lapelled, tailed by swinging fur pelts.

Throughout, cool tones of reflective chrome, deep blue, vampy purple, and emerald green find balance alongside contrasting warm tones of bright orange-apricot, pale yellow, and shimmering gold. 

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Julien Dossena’s creative direction invites the wearer on a catch-and-release of the most precious parts of life—our history, strength, and deepest treasures. He is able to create this dialogue of preciousness and protection through such contrasting textiles and novel layering, playing to the parallel subject, the physical design. 

Voluptuous furs, in the form of coats, jackets, vests, skirts, and dresses, are unleashed in classic modern styles—a classic button-up fluffy coat—and additional, more exploratory shapes—a longhaired sleeveless vest paired with a slitted kilt, with the same black fur bursting from its interior. The collaboration and opposition of interior and exterior is a key conversation in this collection. Linings aren’t just fur—skirts unwrap to expose a silvery second skin, just as lapels sparkle to hint at the exciting sequined insides of a blazer. 

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Dossena’s ideas are clear and thought out, presenting designs that act not just as artistic innovation but as functional and sincere real-world fashion. Rabanne introduces the double coat as the projected savior for next winter, navigating the confrontation of fashion and frigid winter weather. Outer coats are belted and designed with intentional slits, looping in an exposed sister jacket, layered beneath. 

Some looks are grounded by a series of combat boots, laced at the calf’s side, others with stiletto leather boots or chunky buckled Mary Janes paired with a funky-fabric-ed sock. 

Along the way, and in the finale, we are shown a key, which represents both the personal and the universal, playing to the inner and outer themes, and symbolizing secrets and the possibility of unlocking something greater, something unknown. 

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