9 Styling Tips To Borrow From The Fashion Set This Spring

Whether it’s full-look styling of a single brand or theatrical peacocking designed for the paps, much of the street style captured at fashion month is far removed from how we all dress day to day. However, not everyone at the shows brings such main character energy to proceedings: this spring has also ushered in an abundance of clever styling tips, all handy ways to inject life into your existing wardrobe.

This isn’t about buying a whole new set of clothes, rather making subtle tweaks and changes to existing outfits and being intentional with your styling. There were plenty of everyday, borderline boring clothes outside the shows this season, from flannel check shirts to grey calf-length socks to sensible windbreakers. The key is to mix them in to an outfit in unexpected ways: pair Adidas tracksuit bottoms with a sculpted peplum jacket, contort your grey crewneck jumper around your body instead of actually wearing it, and belt and button your trench coat to transform it into a sweeping midi-dress. It’s all about how you wear something, embracing the sort of so-wrong-it’s-right philosophy that has defined Miuccia Prada’s career.

Double polo shirts, anoraks worn over dresses, socks and sandals – all potentially toe-curling propositions, but the mood for spring 2025 is all about seeing classic items through a new and offbeat lens. Keep reading for some of our favourite styling ideas for spring 2025 that are inspiring us to get a little more creative with our outfits.

Double collars

Sloaney styling tropes have been making a return in recent seasons: the double collar trend comes after fashion previously reclaimed the boat shoe and rugby shirts. In the Noughties, Jacob Elordi in Saltburn types would layer two polo shirts on top of each other (these had to be by Abercrombie & Fitch, Jack Wills or Ralph Lauren), however the street style crowd has been layering Oxford shirt and polos. Avoid anything too preppy or horseriding-coded, and layer polos in clashing colours or prints – if the collars sit neatly on top of one another it will ensure it still looks considered.

Tucked-in track tops

Sporty windbreakers and track jackets have been given the fashion treatment, thanks to Miu Miu, Grace Wales Bonner, Martine Rose, Prada and The Row. To stop it looking like you’re embarking on a hike, layer your anorak over a dress or tuck it into the waistband of tailored trousers or an A-line skirt, rather than pairing it with more sportswear.

Add a corsage

At Paris Fashion Week in particular, flower embellishments and corsages were used to add some old fashioned romance to looks – a styling move straight from the Carrie Bradshaw playbook. While a rose pin looks beautiful on the lapel of a blazer, you can also get more creative with blooms flourishing from the shoulders, attached to the straps of heels, or pinned at the hip of skirts and dresses.

Wrap your knitwear

Last year, the fashion set started looping knitwear over their shoulders, rescuing this once preppy look from its golfer associations. This February the knitwear draping got even more creative, with cardigans and jumpers wrapped around the body in a balletic fashion. This is the latest Miu Miu styling move sparked by Miuccia Prada and show stylist Lotta Volkova, and it looks best when added to simple summer pieces, such as a white poplin dress.

The dressed-up tracksuit

Adidas tracksuit bottoms have become a fashion week staple and something of a second skin for Vogue editors – head of editorial content, Chioma Nnadi, has long been a fan of this Sporty Spice signature, while Laura Ingham, deputy director of the Global Fashion Network, swapped jeans for trackies this fashion month. Follow Ingham’s lead and pair your joggers with a fitted, peplum jacket – a pairing that in theory shouldn’t work, but makes them look a world away from lockdown loungewear.

The “one and done” coat

Back in February, Vogue reported on the “one and done” coat trend sweeping New York Fashion Week. The phrase, coined by Vogue’s Julia Hobbs, refers to when a coat functions as a complete outfit, with no other clothing visible underneath. It was snowing in New York, so the coats in question were of cartoonish proportions – take Seán McGirr’s shearling coat for McQueen, which is so large it would require it’s own seat on a plane. However for spring, this transitioned into the “one and done” trench coat, buttoned and belted and worn like a dress.

A dollop of butter yellow

Butter yellow is set to be the dominant shade for spring. Not only was it seen across the spring/summer 2025 collections, it was a key feature of Sarah Burton’s debut at Givenchy for autumn/winter 2025, too. Although yellow isn’t traditionally a bestselling colour, this buttery shade is closer to vanilla, and so will function like a neutral within your spring wardrobe. This creamy Tod’s windbreaker in nappa leather was a street-style favourite this fashion month, and pairs beautifully with jeans and accessories.

Socks and heels for the win

At London Fashion Week this season, socks were used to add an extra flourish to ensembles. It’s a styling trick that Mrs Prada has been endorsing for years and there are no set rules: socks can be styled with slingbacks, pumps, court shoes, strappy sandals and clogs. “I wear sheer black stockings so often that I’d now feel undressed leaving the house without them,” Vogue’s Julia Hobbs explains. “They’re the exclamation point for the more sober pieces in my wardrobe, like a Burberry trench coat (which I like to wear as a dress).”

’90s layered shirts

The spring/summer 2025 collections saw ’90s grunge plaid prints dominating over delicate florals, with the street-style set using Kurt Cobain checked shirts as a layering piece, either nonchalantly looped around the waist or even worn on top of another collared shirt. Remember this shirting is inspired by the grunge movement, so opt for dark colours and avoid using an iron at all costs – the more lived in, the better.