Michael Kors Fall 2025: A Smart Collection for All Seasons
“Americans, we invented the idea of ease, and the world has stolen it,” said Michael Kors, in front of his mood board with photos of a laid-back Lauren Hutton, pajama-dressing Sharon Stone and Zoë Kravitz in her bathrobe, all effortlessly elegant.
“I don’t like the term minimal. I think it’s clinical. I like things that are tactile. I like things that are cozy. In our homes — that’s our apartment on the left and our beach house in the center — there’s a warm modernism. It’s clean lines. It’s timeless, but there’s something comforting. And certainly now I think a little comforting is in order.”
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For fall 2025, he went back home to his core, reasserting his tailoring power with polished but easy suiting, and modern-looking layering (coats over dresses, dresses or asymmetrical pleated skirts over pants, for example) creating movement and seasonal optionality.
The luxury industry headwinds, parent company Capri Holdings included, made Kors double down on “versatility, longevity and quality,” he said. “And more than ever, everyone’s got to wake up and realize adults have money to spend. It is just insane to think that everyone’s 26 years old. We have fabulous-looking customers in their 70s and some in their 80s,” he said of casting a wide range of models.
The palette was neutral (Kors was on board with brown long before Pantone declared Mocha Mousse the color of the year), with shades of green and purple and a few Jordan almond pastels on blanket layers and fun furs. He kept accessories simple, with leather-wrapped silver pendants, sleek or shaggy bags, slipper shoes and boots, and leather opera gloves for a touch glamour.
There was more to the smart collection than was visible at first glance. With an eye toward wearability for all seasons, he designed multiple, tonal pieces that could be worn together or pulled apart. Take the lightweight caramel silk and wool strappy trenchcoat and matching silk cady dress pairing, for example. It had the flexibility to carry a woman from a chilly day, worn with pants and tall boot underneath, to a hot afternoon, when the dress would go solo with sandals.
He also got clever with fabrics, too, using trompe-l’oeil to create the look of winter without the weight, as on a smudged glen plaid cashmere flannel vest over a trompe-l’oeil glen plaid silk dress.
Shearling has been a massive trend here this week, and Kors got creative with it, showing a chocolate brown slouchy coat with shearling patch pockets, and a to-die shearling floppy hat. And he brought simple sophistication to evening with beautiful bias-cut suiting with tonal sequin embroidery, and showed sequin cape gowns that were relaxed and timeless.
“Fashion has to wake up…to a shoe you can actually walk in, a dress you can move and sit in, and a bag where you can actually put your stuff,” Kors said. “You don’t have to give all that up to look great.”
Launch Gallery: Michael Kors Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
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