Christopher Esber Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear

Light, free and unfettered: That’s how Christopher Esber is thinking about next spring. It’s how he’s seeing the clothes—there was so much here that was diaphanous, floating around and away from the body, yet still rooted in the reality of what a woman might want (and actually be able) to wear. Yet it also drove his creative process when he was working on it; that was just as unencumbered. Standing backstage moments before the show, and exuding a preternatural calm that I only wish I could muster up for this Fashion Week (or for this lifetime, for that matter), Esber, who’s Sydney-based, and won the ANDAM prize this year, spoke about how he let his mind go wherever it wanted. “I was thinking about different fragments of different decades, whether it’s polka dots from the 1980s, or turn of the century underwear, or ’50s pin ups,” he said. “There is a very defined silhouette for the Esber woman, but I’ve definitely tried to evolve it this season.”