Gucci sent a collection of furry coats, slim pencil skirts and slip dresses down the catwalk for its fall-winter show, a lineup of styles for women and men drawn up by its design studio as the Kering-owned Italian label awaits its next designer.

From Prada to Versace, the Fall-Winter 2025 collections were a polarizing mix of creative consistency and rule-breaking liberation.

It’s dull, dull, dull,” said the late André Leon Talley of Milan Fashion Week in a 1998 interview with Videofashion. In his own words, “you can go to a week of shows in a city like Milan and you sit there and you want to,