Photo Credits: Haute-Couture Week/ Line Brusegan
There are couturiers who dress women, and then there are those who release them. With his Fall/Winter 2025 haute couture collection, Zuhair Murad does not simply construct garments—he composes an emancipation in silk, crystal, and memory. Each silhouette arrives not as fashion, but as a radiant requiem for the roles women were once confined to. And from within the very codes of old Hollywood glamour, he distills something radically new: a heroine who is no longer being looked at, but who now looks back.
Photo Credits: Alessandro Lucioni
This is not nostalgia. This is resurrection.
Inspired by the luminous silhouettes of the 1930s and 40s, Murad doesn’t merely reference Barbara Stanwyck and Rita Hayworth—he rewrites their mythology. The femme fatale, once scripted to fall, now takes flight. Shoulders are lifted like wings. Waists are cinched not as a symbol of containment, but of poise, purpose, and propulsion. Trains sweep behind like punctuation marks to a sentence that no longer ends in tragedy.
Photo Credits: Alessandro Lucioni
And then, there is the embroidery the living heart of the Zuhair Murad maison. Here, it reaches baroque extremes, gleaming with pearls and molten cabochons like offerings at an altar. But nothing feels heavy. The gowns breathe. They shimmer not for spectacle, but for transformation. Each stone, each thread, seems to hold a secret. The kind whispered between women across generations: that survival, too, can be beautiful.
Photo Credits: Alessandro Lucioni
Murad does not design in opposition to pain he designs through it. His heroines do not escape the fire. They walk through it, trailing gold and smoke. There is defiance in the luminosity. A quiet resistance stitched into every curve, every cascade of tulle. He doesn’t create illusions—he conjures liberation in layers of light.
Photo Credits: Alessandro Lucioni
In a fashion landscape increasingly obsessed with irony and detachment, Zuhair Murad remains unafraid of beauty—real, devastating beauty. He is a guardian of glamour not as surface, but as depth. And in this latest collection, he dares to propose that elegance and emotion are not in opposition, but inextricably bound.
Photo Credits: Alessandro Lucioni
With Fall Couture 2025, Zuhair Murad has not just crafted dresses.
He has composed a ceremony.
He has summoned women into their full, shimmering selves.
He has given them, at last, a different ending.
Photo Credits: Alessandro Lucioni
Photo Credits: Alessandro Lucioni
