The Biggest Trends From the Fall 2025 Collections, Private-Label Beauty's Boom and More
This week, WWD has a look at the biggest trends from the fall 2025 collections. Plus, a deep dive on how private-label beauty quietly became sexy. Also, read more on the business conditions at Saks Global in our interview with Gary Wassner.
Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Trend: Hourglass
As part of the empowering message from the fall 2025 collections, designers continue to celebrate the female form in all its variations, emphasizing strength and sensuality.
Think corsetry, panniers, and extreme nipped-in-waist looks as seen in SCHIAPARELLI's sleek suiting.
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How Private-label Beauty Quietly Became Sexy
Retailer-owned beauty lines are gaining status as young and affluent consumers increasingly take to the category, which is poised for further growth as economic uncertainty looms.
The timing of this growth is no coincidence. Beauty consumers today are entering the category younger than ever (see: “Sephora kids”); are diversifying more often (look to the demise of the “signature fragrance”), and are prioritizing value in ways that go beyond price — all shifts that private-label lines are well-poised to capitalize on.
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Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Trend: Fur
Fur, real and faux, was all over the fall 2025 runways, riding its return in popularity among Millennials and Gen Z. And few did it cooler this season than that arbiter of cool Miuccia Prada, as seen here backstage at the Miu Miu show during Paris Fashion Week.
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The Risks and Benefits of Selling to Saks, According to Gary Wassner
There are few people as plugged in to the daily give-and-take of financing high fashion as Gary Wassner, chief executive officer of Hilldun Corp.
For generations, the factoring company has helped smooth out the cash flow for brands, paying them immediately for their orders shipped to retailers and then going back and collecting on the bills.
It’s a gig that gives Wassner unusual insight into what vendors are shipping and how likely retailers are to pay.
Lately, it’s been Saks Global that’s dominated not just the cocktail party conversation in fashion, but Wassner’s work life as brands digest the company’s new 90-day payment terms, plans to pay past-due bills, the integration of Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman and more.
“It literally takes up 25 to 30 percent of my day every single day,” Wassner told WWD. “I should be on Saks’ payroll.”
He, of course, is not on Saks’ payroll, but he certainly is an interested party.
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