Yahoo Lifestyle Weinsanto Fall 2025: A Fashion Cold Front
News kiosks around Paris are promoting a disquieting magazine cover depicting a polar bear standing on an ice cap — with Mont Saint-Michel in the background: The latest issue of Sciences et Avenir delves into the possible collapse of the Gulf Stream, which could trigger Arctic winters in Europe.
Lo and behold, Victor Weinsanto helped kick off Paris Fashion Week with a show dedicated to the cold, his models made up with frost-flecked eyelashes and snow-dappled cheeks. They warmed their bare arms as they stalked a runway equipped with fans, which also whipped the silvery hair of extra-long wigs.
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Backstage, which was as hot as the Sahara, the designer confessed that the cold was a pretty straightforward theme by his theatrical standards, but luckily the French word for frosted — givré — has a second meaning: slang for a good kind of crazy, which pretty much sums up his fashion comfort zone.
His usual cast of characters flicked nails as long as icicles at the photographers, while a set of brides emerged in white, bulbous caged constructions to evoke icebergs. They were strangely pretty, which is a Weinsanto specialty.
Corsets are another, worn here with nearly everything and with a silky blouse or leather top spilling out underneath and falling off the shoulders.
You rarely see cool pants on runways these days, but Weinsanto has a knack for making them interesting: adding multiple seams to silvery jeans, or an off-kilter kilt that can snap on or off straight-legged trousers.
The collection also included some handsome coats with dressmaker details kind to curves, and fuzzy tabards and stoles that might owe a debt to the snow queen portrayed by Tilda Swinton in the “Narnia” films. Icy chic, indeed.
Launch Gallery: Weinsanto Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
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