Lemaire Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear

The fashion crowd after these shows often reacts with a swoon combined with imagining that, in a parallel world, we might all be dressed in Lemaire. The brand even plays into this, conjuring a conceptual sidewalk within its Place des Vosges premises, where models appear like poised city types exiting a building, pausing mid-stroll, or encountering another character en route. Even while Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran have this narrative down pat and know their audience is comprised of admirers, they still build upon their repertoire, finding new ways to express the language of Lemaire. This collection, said Tran, was about straightforward silhouettes, “long and lean, easy to understand.” The noted how the photographs of August Sander informed their opening black-and-white archetypes—the men’s white button-front V-neck under a black ensemble and overcoat, for example. But the designers also have a thoroughly contemporary eye, as if considering that one of those portraits today might feature a young woman in a liquid-like dress adorned with beaded body jewelry, or a guy projecting an urban-western vibe, his black shirt pierced with small rings.