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Victoria Beckham hasn’t had a hit this big since 2000, when ‘Holler/Let Love Lead The Way’ went to the top of the UK charts. Beckham’s spring 2025 show was number one with a bullet on Vogue Runway’s top 10 list this season, miles ahead of the nearest competition thanks to a bump from Google Discover.
The designer has never lacked star power, of course, but it’s the first time she’s turned up in our ranking. It could be because of the August announcement that Netflix is producing a new documentary series following Beckham and her fashion and beauty businesses. The prep for the show and the making of the collection, which Mark Holgate said “took more risks… and tested the limit of what she can do”, will feature prominently in the series.
Our list’s other new entries came from Ralph Lauren and Valentino. Lauren only semi-regularly shows collections on the New York Fashion Week calendar. This season, he pre-empted it by a day, inviting Usher, Jude Law, Colman Domingo and the First Lady out to a horse farm in the Hamptons to eyeball his vintage car collection and eat at a Polo Bar purpose-built for the occasion. That kind of extravagance doesn’t go unnoticed. It certainly didn’t at Valentino, where Alessandro Michele made a sparkling, sensational debut. It marked the designer’s return to the runway following a two-year hiatus (he parted ways with Gucci in November 2022) in front of a crowd that included old friends like Harry Styles, Elton John and Florence Welch.
What else is new? For the second season running, the list is majority women-led brands. Chloé’s Chemena Kamali had the goodwill of the fashion crowd and the sophomore collection to back it up, and Christian Dior’s Maria Grazia Chiuri slung a few arrows at her constant naysayers. Miuccia Prada, for her part, rang up two entries: for Miu Miu, down a couple of spots, and Prada, up a notch and coming in at number two. Chanel dropped six positions to number eight, but even without a creative director, the house that Coco built pulls weight. That’s either a blessing or a curse for whomever eventually lands the coveted job.