You can always count on Paris Fashion Week to deliver beauty looks brimming with creativity and polish… or in the case of fall/winter 2025, a certain désordre as far as hair looks went. If one trend stood out this season, it was the embrace of imperfection and playful experimentation as make-up artists and hair gurus leaned into asymmetry, blended edges and undone brows.
Frizzy flyaways were a thing at bohemian Chloé and Ann Demeulemeester, where locks—occasionally accented by a solitary braid—flowed.
Hair came slicked and secondary to the ready-to-wear at the likes of Balenciaga, Givenchy, Hermès, Rick Owens and Schiaparelli. Hair stylists at Yohji Yamamoto experimented with contrasts—manes were refined and controlled in the front, yet haphazardly spiked and teased to oblivion from the back. Perhaps in extensions of the seasons before, nothing gives ‘fashion hair’ like wet-look and liquid-like locks seen at countless brands.
Make-up artists focused on the eyes to play it bold and unexpected. One of the most striking beauty trends at Paris Fashion Week fall/winter 2025 was the application of unexpected materials: from wool thread at Ganni to snow-like embellishments at Weinsanto. Of course, you can always count on cult and emerging brands to push the envelope when it comes to beauty. And to anyone fixed on bringing the runway trend into reality: bleached and barely-there brows are happily still trending both in fashion and entertainment.
Colour us obsessed with the graphic lip over at Mame Kurogouchi: it lent the perfect amount of rebellion and edge to the collection of voluminous separates inspired by Japanese lacquerware. Aside from richly saturated lips seen at the majority of shows, we were more drawn to fine, almost imperceptible, diffused lip liner that gave the pout extra dimension.
Scroll on to find inspiration for your next perfectly imperfect fall/winter 2025-inspired beauty look.
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Ganni
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Snow-flecked faces at Weinsanto
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Lacquered lips at Mame Kurogouchi
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Glitter-flecked lids at Cecilie Bahnsen
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Crimson French manicures at Stella McCartney
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Sharp and smoky eyes at Giorgio Armani
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Acrylic lashes at Coperni
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Dramatic shading at Valentino
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Sunrise eyes at J. Salinas
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A zhuzhed-up medial canthus at Duran Lantink
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Two-toned lips at Kronthaler Westwood
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Inverted eyeliner at Dior
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Wet and wild locks at Lacoste
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Babydoll lashes at Chloé
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Barely-there liner at Ottolinger
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Dewy skin for days at Saint Sernin
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White eye liner and red-tipped nails at Giambattista Valli
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Foundational beauty at Dries Van Noten
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