Dreaming Eli Autumn/Winter 2025 / AW25 at London Fashion Week
For Autumn/Winter 2025 Dreaming Eli looks within, into the depths of the human form, exploring the intricate layers of flesh, bone, and emotion. The AW25 collection is a powerful celebration of the female body, exploring the unapologetic embrace of chaos, passion, and transformation. It speaks to a woman who has walked through fire, emerged from the trauma, and claimed her body as her own. With this in mind, Dreaming Eli performs a deepening continuation from past season embolden with a fearless new perspective in defining who the Dreaming Eli woman is and creates a collection both wild and intimate, fierce and fragile, constructed with the raw energy of a woman who refuses to be tamed.
The Dreaming Eli woman is a force to be reckoned with, untamed and tempestuous she has emerged from the flames; overcoming the trauma and experience by embracing the storm that resides within.
The collection Is a visual representation of this process of self-discovery, construction and reconstruction; intricate, fragmented and layered. An evolution by exploring new techniques and pushing the boundaries of texture and form where fabric manipulation plays a key role, with Shibori techniques used to create organic, constricted shapes playing with the idea of bondage – skin being bound and released, making the collection sexual and sensual at the same time. The use of layering with distressed fabrics mirrors the complexities of womanhood, inspired by personal experiences of vulnerability and strength. The reference to the body reemerges with a deepened exploration of the colour red, a continuation from previous seasons, but now more dominant, more explosive an intense. It bleeds across the collection, representing both trauma and power, desire and defiance. Alongside this fiery intensity, the palette remains connected to the body with soft nudes and delicate pinks referencing to skin, touch, and intimacy.
Details of Dreaming Eli AW25 / Autumn/Winter 2025, Knitwear makes a first entrance for the brand, laying with its structure through distressed knitting to create new silhouettes. Torn, raw, red threads trace across the body like veins, symbolising blood, passion, and the undeniable pulse of life. Deconstructed lingerie returns with a renewed intensity, blending delicacy with defiance. Autumn Winter explores outerwear further with the introduction of the puffer jacket with brand signature touch points of corseting and draping. The art of draping and layering makes each piece unique and one of a kind promoting Dreaming Eli ethos of handmade production, which alongside the continuation of exploration of upcycled denim which for the season is cut out and enriched with the delicate lace.
New for this season is the first Dreaming Eli bag collection, marking a turning point with the debut of an accessory line in collaboration with 3D designer Harry Mack. These bags blend Harry’s digital world with Dreaming Eli’s romantic, fluid shapes. Focusing on exploring how digital tools can transform traditional processes by bridging the worlds of fashion, technology, and sustainability to produce results that challenge conventional notions of what accessories and fashion can be, along with appearance, with forces such as wind and gravity, Harry is able to create these innovative shapes, binding together the perfection of the tech world with the organic imperfections of the Dreaming Eli world. Wider accessory line launches in Spring 2025.
The London Fashion Week presentation showcased Dreaming Eli Autumn/Winter 2025 / AW25 collection accompanied by renowned artist Sophie Tea live painting one of the looks, accompanied by interpretative performances from ballet dancers and contortionists reflecting the theme of the collection, using their bodies to bring it to live alongside models.
All images by Dreaming Eli. Credit to: Styling by Matt King, Art Direction by Arian De Vos, Casting by Chloe Rosolek, Production by Antony Waller @ AW+C, Makeup by Carly Utting and the M·A·C PRO Team for @ maccosmeticsuki, Hair by Danilo Giangreco for Revlon Profesional @ Danilogiangreco_hair @ Revlonprofessionaluk, Nails by Hannah Bent for Nailberry, Movement Direction by Angelica Wolanska, Live Art Performance by Sophie Tea, Performers Tilly Woodward, Ana Maria Noakes, Yen – Ching Lin & Zara Sands, Music Production by Finnian Feez, Music Performed by Nanzhen Yang, Photography by Aitor Rosas for Iker Aldama, Videography by Archie Baker & Sasha List, Hosiery by Heist Studios, 3D Accessories Designer Harry Mack @macfbx, PR by IPR London