At Paris Fashion Week, Andreas Kronthaler presented a collection for Vivienne Westwood that felt both reverent and mischievously irreverent—very much in the spirit of the house. The runway unfolded like a theatrical character study: exaggerated hats, suspenders, stockings, and sharply sculpted tailoring created silhouettes that oscillated between aristocratic romance and punk provocation. Draped fabrics twisted around the body in classic Westwood fashion, while bleached jackets and undone layering introduced a sense of anarchic ease.
Kronthaler’s styling leaned into costume and narrative, nodding to cinematic glamour while preserving the label’s anti-establishment DNA. There was humor threaded throughout—most memorably in the finale, where a bridal-like ivory suit appeared with a bouquet of radishes, a wink that encapsulated Westwood’s enduring love of satire and subversion. The result was a collection that didn’t attempt to replicate Vivienne Westwood’s voice, but instead amplified the house’s theatricality through Kronthaler’s own lens: romantic, eccentric, and defiantly individual.
