Christian Siriano Puts a Fiery Spin on the Little Red Dress

Christian Siriano collections lately have been clearly inspired by ballet, but for Fall/Winter 2025, presented on the first day of New York Fashion Week, the designer ditched softness opted for a more racy and high octane feeling.

The show opened with a black-red mini dress, modeled by Winnie Harlow, which offered a taste of what was to come. In the new collection, Siriano translates alluring automotive design elements into clothes. On the runway, this led to a theme of aerodynamics, evident in sleek shapes, bold lines, and glossy materials like croc-embossed leather. Models like Coco Rocha wore tuxedo-like jackets with form-fitting skirts. Suiting also seemed to make a bid for the Met Gala red carpet, which recently announced the 2025 dress code as “Tailored for You.”

“Everyone loves that iconic and sexy red car, right? Everybody also loves that iconic red beautiful gown. How do you make those worlds together?” he tells L’OFFICIEL backstage. This guiding idea also colored the palette, which leaned heavily on fiery reds, spanning naked gowns, mini dresses, and coordinated sets for men.

“I’m a big car person. My grandmother gave me and my sister a Cadillac DeVille, and that's what we drove around—it was beige, huge, and hilarious. The first car I bought myself was a Toyota Corolla, which is funny,” he says. This made for a full circle moment, as he collaborated with Toyota Crown for the show, with a red version of the car front and center on the runway that was decked out in rouge florals and carpentry. Siriano also collaborated with Hulu's The Handmaid’s Tale, debuting Look 22's red cloak as a sartorial sign of protesting for women's rights. 

Hair on the runway mirrored the liquid dresses through wet tresses, all under hairstylist Lacy Redway’s creative direction. Some models flaunted slicked back hair while other sported sculptured and suspended buns. It added to the sleek look inspired by sports cars. Zales pieces by Siriano twinkled on the catwalk.

Siriano’s front rows are one to watch every season, and the February show did not disappoint. Whoopi Goldberg sat next to Katie Holmes, ogling at the clothes together, and not too far were Danielle Brooks and Adam Lambert.

Click through the gallery below to see every look from the Christian Siriano Fall/Winter 2025 collection.