This season, Burberry took us to Tate Britain where the knight blue carpet was rolled out for their FW25 collection. Inspired by weekend escapes to the countryside, the mood was distinctly cosy comfort. “It’s that great Friday night exodus from London to the countryside for long rainy walks and to disconnect in the great outdoors,” Daniel Lee said about the show’s inspiration in the show notes. “It’s day-trips to grand stately homes.”

Huge coats, from tailored wool trenches to enormous boxy parkas with kimono sleeves, dominated the runway, with scarves and fur hoods protecting the models from the bitter countryside breeze. Eveningwear pieces, such as tapestry-patterned velvet suits and embroidered dresses took their inspiration from the wall hangings of grand country houses. “We folded country house interiors into contemporary dress codes,” Lee continued in the show notes. “[We] fused weather-shielding fabrics with elaborate wall-hangings.” In a very practical move, the accessory of the season was a Burberry check umbrella. 

The clothes weren’t the only stars of this collection, however. It was hard to ignore the list of famous faces who walked this season. Richard E. Grant, Leslie Manville, Elizabeth McGovern, and Jason Isaacs all walked alongside Naomi Campbell, Lila Moss, Karen Elson, Kit Butler and Lux Gillespie. On the front row, Ncuti Gatwa, Nicholas Hoult, Orlando Bloom, Lauryn Hill, Jerry Hall, and Samantha Jones herself – Kim Cattrall – watched on. “’It’s through incredible actors, and the films and TV they’ve appeared in, that we learn so much about the rules of dressing up,” Lee said of the starstudded casting.