From Mourning to Midnight: Goth-Coded FW25 Fashion Week Trends
Dark-souled dressers, rejoice; this year’s Fall/Winter fashion week has unveiled its fashion prophecies—many designers across Paris, Milan, London and New York integrated gothic themes into their collections with exquisite precision.
From Alexander McQueen’s hauntingly beautiful black gowns to Dolce & Gabbana’s smoldering sequin slip dresses and Thom Browne’s poetic dark academia elegy, the runways became altars of goth-coded reinvention, celebration, evolution and worship.
These otherworldly artistic portraits bled outward, guiding RTW houses—and all of us—to lace these themes into our daily wardrobes.
Below is the full Ledger — 11 gothic archetypes, each paired with designers whose FW25 collections embodied her contradictions, her strength, her spell. Below, we’ve pulled runway inspiration and tips on how to incorporate couture signatures into her closet.
For shoppable FW25 capsule wardrobes, check out part two here.
6 Haute Couture Houses With Deep Goth Energy
Where velvet bleeds, silhouettes whisper and darkness dazzles.
Couture is art that the fortunate few get to live inside – but its stories belong to all of us.
Each collection is a narrative stitched in silk and shadow, and we love when those stories lean hauntingly beautiful and unapologetically macabre.
With baited breath, we await collections with mourning veils delicately draped, corsets sculpting silhouettes into regal statues, 90s grunge colliding with Victorian vampires and runways drowning in tulle, velvet and lace.
We’ve curated a shortlist of six goth-coded couture houses that consistently stir our imaginations.