2025’s biggest trend? A designer debut. And the 2025 Venice Film Festival seems to be the agreed soft launch.

So far, the year has yielded the first collections of Sarah Burton for Givenchy , Peter Copping for Lanvin , Jonathan Anderson’s menswear at Dior , Michael Rider’s vision for Celine , and Glenn Martens’s first couture week at Maison Margiela . Still to come: marquee talents that will showcase their first designs for their respective houses across Paris and Milan Fashion Week. That list includes: Louise Trotter for Bottega Veneta , Anderson’s Dior womenswear, Dario Vitale’s Versace , Demna Gvasalia ’s Gucci, Balenciaga by Pierpaolo Piccioli , Jean Paul Gaultier by Duran Lantink , Miguel Castro Freitas’s Mugler , Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez’s Loewe

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