Paris Fashion Week Men’s Autumn/Winter 2025 felt like a season of creative transition as fashion houses figure out new strategies that could help to spur growth.

“Everyone’s waiting with bated breath to see what will happen in February, June, September, next January when a lot of the creative changes that have been happening or that seem promised to happen will,” says GQ senior fashion writer Samuel Hine. “Big ideas don’t happen every season. It takes time for these big macro-level trends to emerge and everything to shift. Think of the watershed moments: the luxury-fication of streetwear, quiet luxury, the latest big idea that influenced lots of things in the industry. We are still in a moment of creative transition, and everyone is waiting to see what the next big idea will be.”