Glamorous Eveningwear Aesthetics for 2025 from Top Luxury Designers
After several seasons of embracing minimalism, modernism, and functional design, maximalism is making a significant comeback in the fashion world. For 2025, five glamorous evening aesthetics are reigning supreme on the runway, with top luxury designers embracing everything from sparkling embellishments to sculptural silhouettes.
Maximalism
As every Zuhair Murad bride knows, the designer’s aesthetic is the epitome of glamour and embellishment. This season, the fashion house has several maximalist-friendly eveningwear looks, including two long-sleeved mini dresses covered in sparkles – both, which would be perfect for a bride’s reception or afterparty dress.
For full-length options, the Fall 2025 collection showcases some exquisite evening gowns, ranging from all-black ensembles with silver embellishments, to a two-piece look with structured shoulders, to elegantly draped dresses. Balancing maximalism with classic shapes, these gowns are as apropos for a black-tie formal wedding as they are for a red-carpet event.
Lavender’s Blue
As an alternative to the classic black evening gown, Tony Ward’s latest collection brings color to the forefront with romantic shades of lilac and periwinkle. Romantic draping, peek-a-boo panels, dazzling overlays, and regal peplums add an extra layer of glamour.
Bold Graphics
Bold graphics and geometric shapes take center stage in Elie Saab and Rami Al Ali’s eveningwear collections. Playing with a neutral color palette of black, white, and cream, these designs offer both classic silhouettes and experimental structures, so there’s something for everyone. A black and white tunic and wide-legged trouser combo from Elie Saab is a fresh take on menswear inspired looks, and would be a chic pick for rehearsal dinners.
Oversized ruffles featured in Rami Al Ali’s collection create an ultra-feminine aesthetic. For the Wedding Style team, it was love at first sight when it came to the designer’s multi-bow mini skirt dress. Crafted from a beige Mikado satin and adorned with crystal embellishments at the waist, it’s the perfect bridal shower or afterparty dress for brides in search of something playful, yet refined.
Power Players
Stephane Rolland, Rami Kadi, and Lena Erziak’s contributions to this season’s eveningwear trends were made for the power players out there – the brides and guests who wish to make an entrance, hold court, and revel in the spotlight. The Spring/Summer 2025 Haute Couture collection by Stephane Rolland, for example, features an all-black suit with a black velvet jacket and wide collar embroidered with black feathers. Inspired by historic figures like Josephine Baker and Brancusi, this aesthetic is anything but demure; it’s a celebration of expression, a pioneering spirit, and all things avant-garde.
For Rami Kadi, this season is all about celebrating women “as a force of storytelling and connection across eras.” Inspired by the Baroque and Rococo periods, these gowns reflect the glamour of a lush, regency aesthetic paired with contemporary sophistication.
If a bride-to-be wishes to expand beyond the typical mood of a bridal wardrobe – which tends to be light and romantic – then Lena Erziak’s Fall/Winter 2024-2025 collection is a stunning option. Named “Melancholia,” this dark and vampy lineup of evening gowns is an “ode to the complexity of human emotions, capturing the duality between darkness and lightness, nostalgia and beauty.”
Heavy Metal
Beloved fashion designer, Monique Lhuillier, takes a high-shine approach to this season’s eveningwear looks with a collection heavy on metallics and light-reflecting embellishments. Some Wedding Style favorites include a strapless evening gown made of luxurious gold brocade, and a silver column gown covered with hundreds of hand-cut mirrors. When in doubt, this glamorous aesthetic is one that will always look (and photograph) beautifully on the dance floor.