Paloma Lanna utilized wool and leather to conjure a sense of protection for fall 2025.
“I’m very pregnant, and I wanted to protect myself and be like a cocoon. Through the collection, I wanted to protect the girls, too, and to make them feel empowered,” Lanna said.
The soft and tactile wool was wrapped around the body for an armor-like silhouette, as seen on a friend of the house, Japanese model Kiko Mizuhara, who attended the brand’s Los Angeles pop-up last fall.
Lanna also toyed with leather, cutting it into rectangular shapes and attaching them to sheer slip dresses, creating her own Spartan warriors. At the same time, Lanna offers great shirts, leather pieces, and relaxed-fit harem pants.
The designer also explored the idea of the body as a container. She referenced American author Ursula Kroeber Le Guin’s book “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” which theorized that the earliest cultural inventions must have been containers to hold gathered products.
She chose the Lycée Henri-IV library as the show venue because a library is the ultimate container of humanity. Lanna believed that humans are containers of histories, and the collection was assembled to reflect that.
“We tried to design different personalities to show that I understood them as containers of histories of different characters,” she said.
