Paris and Milan Menswear Fashion Week in June 2025 saw some chic, gender defying yet comfortable and functional looks. Milan and Paris made a return from “streetwear to character driven tailoring” with coordinated set, monochromes, blazer-dresses styled with sandals and loafers.
At Paris Fashion Week, Anthony Vaccarello’s summer suiting for Saint Laurent drew an A-list crowd, with Manu Ríos front-and-centre. The actor kept it pared back—white ribbed tank, crisp dress shirt, fluid trousers.
Jonathan Anderson’s Dior era opened on 27 June at the Hôtel des Invalides, and the collection wasted no time rewriting house codes. Pleated sailor-front trousers swung below shrunken, off-kilter collars; the Bar jacket re-emerged with a rebellious slouch; and pearl-tipped derby shoes replaced the maison’s customary brogues— all clues that Anderson intends to splice his J.W. irreverence into Dior discipline.
Three nights earlier, Pharrell Williams parked a life-size Snakes & Ladders board outside the Centre Pompidou for Louis Vuitton. Architect Bijoy Jain, fresh from Mumbai, cast the clay-washed set as a nod to the game’s Indian origins; brass ladders rose beside hand-painted serpents, and models climbed the grid in paduka-style slides. Bags sprouted banyan-tree embroidery and gem-paved trunks, while workwear silhouettes anchored the fantasy—boxy denim jackets and a hand-woven cricket jumper that winked at India’s other national obsession. The result felt more street fête, a Vuitton tour of the subcontinent without ever leaving Paris.
Prada’s Milan men’s outing (23 June) felt like a palate-cleanser for a tense news cycle. Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons swapped boardroom armour for “clothes that breathe,” as Simons put it: brief-length elastic-waist shorts, raffia cone hats and naïve turquoise-and-lime doodle prints that read more idle daydream than power statement. Shirts stayed office-clean up top, board-short lax below—proof that the house can park itself midway between Via Montenapoleone and the Amalfi ferry without losing credibility. The designers framed the collection as an antidote to rising global aggression, arguing that gentleness is now the most radical stance a man can take.
Umit Benan closed Milan’s opening day with an intimate salon show inside his just-opened Via Bigli flagship—a stainless-steel-and-mahogany space backed by New Guards co-founder Davide De Giglio. Appointments only, but worth the knock.
And of course, no fashion week is complete without attendees serving off-runway inspiration. Screenshot these looks for your seasonal mood board.
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