Revealed
February 25, 2025
All instructed, this was the weakest London Vogue Week in a number of years, amid depressed markets, world disruptions, Brexit bruises, a trend funeral and a basic sense of exhaustion. Two collections on Monday, nonetheless, stood out – Johanna Parv and Ashish
Johanna Parv: London’s most coherent assortment
One London-based designer at all times price trying out is Johanna Parv, an Estonian who makes activewear truly look very cool. She staged no present, however her assortment nonetheless felt like essentially the most related and clued-in in London.
Johanna Parv Autumn/Winter 2025 assortment – Courtesy
Parv’s key concepts usually come from biking, which helps offers a multi-functional twist to every little thing she does. For subsequent winter, she confirmed nice cambered pants in a crinkly nylon, wonderful co-ed trend that was hyper-functional and classy. Whereas her exact new techy fencing-meets-Mandarin cotton shirts with peak collars, facet pocket and reflective signal at again had been wonderful.
She additionally lower nice cantilevered Velocity Trousers in sturdy Italian wool gabardine with nylon lining that hung completely. And her Tech Vent Blazers appeared like they may work in a membership, boardroom, cocktail or fitness center – defining what makes Johanna Parv such an awesome designer.
Johanna Parv Autumn/Winter 2025 – Courtesy
We are going to say it once more – some vivid clued-in CEO of a significant lively sport big ought to make Johanna Parv their inventive director. She has that a lot expertise.
Ashish: Vogue, not fascism
Glitz and blitz from Delhi-born designer Ashish with a daring homage to partying, in a group unveiled considerably confusingly at 9.15 AM Monday morning.
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Ashish – Fall-Winter2025 – 2026 – Womenswear – Royaume-Uni – Londres – ©Launchmetrics/highlight
Staged contained in the showroom basement of 180 The Strand with an awesome stay DJ title Bestley waxing the stacks, this was actually a Friday night time present held at breakfast time. Blown-up balloons greeted friends studying “Everyone Welcome” or “Walk of Shame”, because the quirky solid danced across the catwalk. Opening with spiky blood-orange columns, degradé silver sequin cocktails, and a gal in fishnet tights and white T-shirt that learn – “Not in the Mood”. Effectively, Ashish and his gals clearly are, as they smoldered in clear attire completed with energy pop stars, or in glitzy Chanel-style fits, the jackets worn open to disclose mini black bras. His guys had been pretty raunchy too: sporting bovver boots, pink sequin knickers and crew neck sweaters studying “Pig”; or knickers and black sequin tops that shouted: “Wow, What a Shit Show”.
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Ashish – Fall-Winter2025 – 2026 – Womenswear – Royaume-Uni – Londres – ©Launchmetrics/highlight
One mock monk in skirt, Alpine sweater and rope belt holding a knit penis, held a cardboard studying, “The End is Near”. The gathering marked the most recent outcry in trend in opposition to Trump’s government orders and Meloni legal guidelines focusing on LGBT rights, ending with one other sequined high that learn, “Fashion Not Fascism”.
