Are Florals Really Trending in Fall/Winter 2025? Here’s What to Notice

If you’re asking yourself, “Are florals even relevant for Autumn/Winter?” — the answer is yes. Fall/Winter 2025 collections show a clear presence of floral embellishment, especially in two forms:

• 3D textile flowers used as sculptural, physical elements

• Couture floral embroidery

These aren’t general motifs — they’re visually prominent and technically considered, appearing in key looks across several collections. Below are the examples worth noticing if you’re working in embroidery, textile design, or surface embellishment.

3D Textile Flowers: Volumetric and Intentional

Dimensional floral forms are used to build shape, contrast, or visual tension — not as a soft accent, but as part of the garment's structure.

• Chanel used oversized ivory flowers across the neckline of a black sweater dress. These flowers had structured folds and clean silhouettes that broke up the minimal base.

• Richard Quinn positioned a sculpted cream flower at the waist, balanced with a velvet bow. Its placement gave architectural weight to an otherwise narrow silhouette.

• Oscar de la Renta included sculptural white blossoms arranged across a black bodice—each form cleanly defined and slightly lifted off the surface.

• Conner Ives used dark burgundy fabric flowers on a sheer dress. Their spacing and finish created a costume-like rhythm, clearly referencing constructed garment elements rather than florals as print.

• Blumarine combined black textile flowers with crystal centers on a knit base, arranged in dense clusters that visually competed with the silhouette itself.

If you're interested in creating structured flowers for garments, accessories, or stand-alone elements, my Rose Choker course provides a clear path. It teaches how to create layered, dimensional textile flowers from scratch and apply them as wearable embellishment.

Couture Floral Embroidery: Clear Compositions, Real Technique

The other visible direction this season is embroidery — specifically floral motifs created with dense, technically exact embellishment. This is not casual sparkle. These are planned, framed compositions stitched with control.

• Huishan Zhang applied pale-toned floral designs to outerwear and evening looks. These used sequins, pearls, and additional textile shapes to form flowers that are distinct in structure and placement.

• Zuhair Murad created deep red floral elements built entirely from sequins and beads. The shapes echoed roses through placement and density, not through literal outlines.

• Carolina Herrera embroidered gold elements onto black tailoring. Each petal and leaf was carefully shaped and positioned to follow the lines of the body.

• Giambattista Valli worked on transparent tulle with metallic threads and stitched petals. The result was light in weight but graphically strong.

• Antonio Marras used matte black sequins in layered formations. The floral references were visible, but subtle — achieved through tonal shifts, not shimmer.

These examples show how floral embroidery is being handled with architectural clarity. If you want to explore this level of detail in your own work, my Couture Camellias course is designed to help you master this style on a manageable scale — without simplifying the technique.

Textile Appliqué: Less Visible, More Experimental

Flat fabric-based floral appliqué is not widely used this season, but a few examples reinterpreted the technique in original ways:

• Erdem presented floral motifs stitched onto a pink jacquard dress. The black appliqué elements had rough edges and slightly raised texture, resembling collage more than embroidery. The aesthetic was deliberate—modern rather than nostalgic.

• Alberta Ferretti applied black floral forms to silver satin in a tonal, matte contrast. The appliqué worked almost like shadow — there was no sparkle, no layered height, just surface and interruption.

These pieces show that even when not central, appliqué can still be relevant — especially when applied with contrast or tension. My Gladiolus course teaches how to create original floral compositions using cut fabric, stitch, and layout techniques, focused on real garments rather than detached samples.

Florals are not dominating every look in Fall/Winter 2025 — but they are used in ways that are deliberate, constructed, and technically demanding. Whether as part of embroidery, structured elements, or fabric embellishment, they offer serious inspiration for anyone working with textiles.

These aren’t motifs for the sake of decoration. They’re part of silhouette, material contrast, and composition. If you're working on your own projects — whether fashion-focused or textile-based — there’s a lot to learn from how these florals are being used now. And if you want to develop those skills in a focused, structured way, all three of my floral courses are designed to help you do exactly that — with a clear method and contemporary aesthetic.

See also:

The next season examined in Spring/Summer 2026: How Familiar Motifs Are Reworked Through Embellishment