Suits are all the rage in womenswear right now — but not just any kind of suit. The silhouette dominating the Spring 2025 runways and celebrity red carpets isn’t the slim, tailored, Hedi Slimane suit we’ve all come to know and love. This time around we’re going for a full-on, 80s mobster fantasy. Oversized suits with wide-legs, shoulder pads as big as throw pillows — and all with a bold, striped power tie to match.
Oversized Suits for SS25
Fashion has had a bit of an obsession with suiting this season. There’s Sandy Liang’s take on a puff sleeve capri suit, Tanner Fletcher’s frilly, gingham pussy bow suit, Tom Ford’s sequin skinny suit and Willy Chavaria’s cool, tailored trousers paired with a crisp white tank top. Every major designer of the moment has thrown their hat into the gauntlet for “Best Women’s Suit” this year.
Celebrities in Suits
However, the year’s biggest suiting moment was, without a doubt, on Bella Hadid. She stole the show in her much-anticipated return to the runway in the Spring 2025 Saint Laurent show. Since then, Anthony Vaccarello’s collection has clearly become the defining fantasy for the current suiting trend. A playfully delicate mix of masculine and feminine, the show featured oversized 80s silhouettes layered with leather bombers or topped with glamorous Veronica Lake waves.
Hailey Bieber wore a look from the collection to her Rhode beauty event in Beverly Hills — complete with a gelled, perfectly undone coif a la Goodfellas.
We can see this silhouette diffused among other major labels. Elle Fanning wore a grey Bottega Veneta suit with an identically super-oversized shape at the London photo call for ‘a Complete Unknown’ and Kelly Rowland donned a pinstripe version of Fear of God’s Kenny G inspired suit for VP Kamala Harris’s Houston presidential rally.
Shopping Vintage
The trend is also finding footing in the celebrity styling world. It’s not just new clothing produced for the runway, but vintage pieces stylists are sourcing for their clients. Law Roach recently put Zendaya in a gorgeous vintage Ralph Lauren suit top styled as a mini dress for her Challengers press tour. And Genesis Webb sourced a currently unidentified three-piece, slouchy oversized suit for Chappell Roan to wear during a performance at the Grammy Museum.
Women’s suiting is one of those classic trends that never leaves (Read: You can buy one really nice suit and it will last you the rest of your life). Katharine Hepburn and Marlene Dietrich popularized the look in the 1920s and 30s — back when a woman in trousers was considered incredibly gauche — and the look has only gained a stronger cultural footing in the years since.
Because, even though oversized men’s suiting as women’s wear is the hot trend of the moment, it is something that has existed in our sartorial world for decades.
