5 trends from London Fashion Week we might soon all be wearing

From retro motifs to modern twists: London Fashion Week provided a smorgasbord of style inspiration for 2025.

Here are five London Fashion Week trends we might all be wearing this year.

1. Pillbox hats

Emilia Wickstead’s 1960s collection inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s film, The Birds (1963), brought back an accessory that has already been slowly creeping onto the fashion scene since Copenhagen Fashion Week.

Beginning as a form of military headgear, the pillbox hat was popularised by U.S. first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, who was famed for her signature block-colour hats that matched her outfits.

While multiple retro tropes graced the runway this season – from Burberry’s Eighties blouson bomber jackets to Chet Lo’s Noughties hair crimping – the most memorable fashion motif was certainly the revival of the pillbox hat.

2. Eighties’ silhouettes

Broad shoulders, bold prints, nipped-in waists and quaffed hair dominated the runway this season.

“This season, we started with a desire to investigate the archetypes that carved out the idea of a very British wardrobe,” designer Steven Stokey-Daley told Vogue, “so taking the donkey jacket or the duffle coat or the trench coat and creating our very core everyday version of those.”

3. Books as accessories

As observed at Erdem and JW Anderson’s collections last September, designers once again proved that books are the most sophisticated accessory.

Books and literature is increasingly playing a starring role in fashion discourse, as more celebrities are meaningfully photographed with their current reads as a status symbol and a small window into their personal interests.

At the spring/summer 2025 London Fashion Week, designer Erdem Moralioglu looked to book The Well Of Loneliness, a lesbian novel published in 1928 which was swiftly banned in England for the next two decades.

He used it as inspiration for his clothes that featured impeccable masculine tailoring of the 1920s, combined with the designer’s signature ultra-feminine dresses.

It seems we may be swapping out our totes for book bags this coming season.

4. Faux-fur accents

While the ‘mob wife’ aesthetic brought back the extravagant fur coat last year, subtler trims were observed on this season’s runway, with lined leather jackets and faux fur stoles.

At Simone Rocha’s show, the Irish designer presented faux-fur coats sliced to ribbons halfway up from their hemlines – a gesture repeated across the collection.

Perhaps we’ll see deconstructed fur cropping up on the high street later this year.

5. Cropped trousers

Culottes, cropped trousers and breeches were another key trend spotted on the runways of Chet Lo, Bora Aksu and Conner Ives.

While Chloe’s spring/summer 2025 runway took the fashion world by storm with her boho lace pantaloons, it seems the cropped trouser trend isn’t just for summer.

Often paired with high riding boots – another trend that has permeated from last season – this season’s baggy cropped trousers evoked a blend of old-school country shooting attire and Noughties capri pants.