January is Enveloped With Fashionable Layers We Love
January’s theme is the word Envelop: to wrap, cover, and be surrounded. For the Autumn/Winter 25/26 season, this idea is explored within fashion via textures and materials that encase the body. Oversized silhouettes contrast with fluid fabrics that cling and contour, creating a contrast of protection and intimacy. This theme reveals how fashion can envelop in many forms: whether bold or understated, every silhouette carries the potential to wrap, shield, and surround the body. After all, there is nothing better in winter than wrapping up warm, find out how in January is Enveloped With Fashionable Layers We Love
Wrap It Up: Yes, we can see in the not-so-far distance that spring is on her way, but we still have a few months of chilly weather in store. Thankfully, we can wrap up this season with style.
For Fall/Winter 2025, Blumarine uses outerwear as a statement of strength and sensuality. Coats and jackets assert presence, softly structured. This extends into the collection with ease; many looks within the collection are fluid yet commanding. Materials are used to envelop the body and create flowing, feminine pieces.
The Loro Piana Fall/Winter 2025–2026 Women’s Collection unfolds through silhouettes that move in quiet harmony with the body. Shapes are refined and embracing, designed to trace natural movement rather than constrain it. Equestrian influences inform both form and function, introducing thoughtfully considered details, creating refined proportions for skirts and trousers.
Ahluwalia’s AW25 collection is titled Sanctuary, and explores the concept of conservation, not merely in an ecological sense, but as a profound reflection on the safeguarding of history, culture, and memory. This can be seen through silhouettes that wrap the body, using textile choices and tactile details that echo the intimacy and intention of historical importance, which is at the heart of the collection.
The 80N8 collection explores proportions and silhouettes designed to enhance or obscure the body through unexpected detail. Ultra-small patch pockets emerge as a key seasonal signature. Child-sized in scale, these pockets become focal points across select tops, introducing a whimsical contrast against adult silhouettes while subtly accentuating or concealing the body.
Autumn 26 from Lanvin is described as a shift between the Maison’s famed flou twist and a sense of sculptural protection. Collars rise into architectural lines; knitwear in compact cashmere and blanket skirts meet textured coats that envelop the body like modern armour; evening pieces shimmer with heat-set embellishments that reinterpret traditional embroidery.
AW25 mens takes influence from sport; this can be seen directly from the styling, stadium scarves that contrast against eveningwear, reimagined in chainmail and crystals that drape over tailored suits. Chunky knits, leather, and cashmere are all layered together to create depth.
AW25 collection from Gabriela Hearst is defined by texture and an elevated use of luxurious fabrics. Cashmere shearling, snakeskin and richly worked knits all form a tactile foundation. As well as printed recycled denim, hand-embroidered leather scales, and cable knit structures coming together to shape the body in its own way, resulting in a sharper silhouette.
Each piece reveals an unexpected twist, studded belts, exaggerated collars, exposed zips, or delicate lace inserts. Black-tipped and blue shearling coats and collars showcase that this colour is all about details. From hand-crafted alpaca and cashmere knitwear, ingeniously woven and worn either shrunken or oversized. In a dark, restrained palette, the collection emphasises detail as the defining power of texture and silhouette.
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