Christopher Esber Pre-Fall 2025

Christopher Esber wasn’t planning to show in Paris this March during the forthcoming fall 2025 collections. Yet things changed for him, but in a good way. The Chambre Syndicale put him onto the show rather than the presentation schedule, and before Esber knew it, he was gearing up over the holidays from his studio in Sydney for a show on the other side of the world. He might have been designing flat out, yet still, he said via Zoom the other day—8AM for him; 4PM for me—he always managed to end his working days with the beach and a swim. Water, work, life, sun, and the way summer can be that most nostalgic and sentimental of seasons (these are the warm weather months in Australia right now): These haven’t just been part of Esber’s life this past month or so; they also factored into his pre-fall collection. Esber’s pre-fall took that longstanding architectural spareness of his—which, it should be noted, has become more sexy of late; like,