Adam Lippes Pre-Fall 2025

Adam Lippes is in growth mode. He’s got a salon-style store on Fifth Avenue that’s redefining luxury shopping and a growing list of boutiques here in the US and in Japan. But it’s not just on the retail front where change is happening. With this pre-fall collection he’s experimenting with new pattern-making techniques, cutting shirts and dresses from circles, squares, and rectangles, which adds an element of avant-garde artsiness to his soigné aesthetic. It’s an exciting development. The new shapes were inspired by a trip to Sicily where the summertime heat affirmed the usefulness of roomy silhouettes cut away from the body. There’s also an emphasis on fabrics with a dry, crisp hand, like the cotton organdy he used for a sleek chocolate brown trench and a voluminous honey-colored jacket, shown belted in the lookbook. Clicking through these pictures you’ll notice ruffled skirts with asymmetric hemlines; on one side they dip to the ankles and on the other they inch above the knee—that’s another way to capture the airy feeling he was going for.