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The Week in Shopping: Fur Returns & Other Boom Boom Chronicles

News and notes on the latest fashion pendulum swings, plus a Paris Fashion Week retrospective and some notable micro-trends.

Saint Laurent Womenswear Fall/Winter 2025-2026 show Paris Fashion Week
The runway collections in Paris left me simultaneously nostalgic and intrigued by their gestures toward a return to 1980s opulence. Photo: Photo by Antoine Flament/Getty Images
Sarah Shapiro
March 14, 2025

I can’t stop thinking about how fashion keeps recycling itself, sometimes in the least expected ways. The runway collections in Paris, for example, left me simultaneously nostalgic and intrigued by their gestures toward a return to 1980s opulence. It wasn’t just an aesthetic recycling, but rather a deliberate reinterpretation that feels oddly relevant. Designers seem to be extracting the essence of power dressing from the ’80s, updating the look and provoking the question: What are the possibilities for power dressing in 2025?