Christopher John Rogers Fall 2025
Christopher John Rogers is without a doubt one of our fashion generation’s greatest colorists. He wields his shapeshifting ability like a no apologies paintbrush, sending out delicious color combinations one might never imagine: zesty highlighter yellow and rich medieval burgundy! Burnt tangerine and dark chocolate! Absinthe greens and Arizona turquoise! This high dose of euphoric color is rare in fashion these days, and yet at Christopher John Rogers fall 2025, it was everywhere. Some say New York style was built off an all-black wardrobe, and even though Rogers hails from Louisiana, his maximalist refusal to fit into one box firmly and inherently makes him a New York fashion legend.
It’s been two years since Christopher John Rogers showed at New York Fashion Week on the official schedule (rather than staging an off-schedule show), and his fall 2025 collection felt like a celebration of an aesthetic so deep and pure. Held at the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Agger Fish Building, the energy was high as his biggest fans filled in the dark venue wearing their brightest pops of acid greens and neon yellows. At any other fashion show in the middle of Brooklyn on a cold February night, most people in the room would be wearing their finest blacks and neutrals. But not here.
Rogers has created his own codes that we saw over and over and over again in this collection: big ball gown style dresses, expertly tailored corsets, covetable stripes of fabric and playful, ingenious touches that are just the right amount of impractical. In past collections, it may have been a top shaped like a literal gift wrap bow, but for fall 2025, it was beautiful streamers of fabric that trailed off both the edges of baggy pants’ waistbands and the collars of shirts. They looked almost like elongated cheerleader’s pompoms, and they were perfect.
Christopher John Rogers shows are always good ones to watch if you like inventive ways of styling your clothes, and the designer didn’t disappoint on that front either. There were striped sweaters wound around the waist peeking out from sharp blazers or tied in sculptural shapes and layered under other sweaters, the arms acting as a chunky sort of new world fringe against the classic CJR silhouette. Welcome back, Christopher John Rogers. New York Fashion Week missed you.
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