In a season laced with silver screen nostalgia and baroque splendor, the Zuhair Murad Couture Fall Winter 2025 collection emerges as a cinematic love letter to Old Hollywood reimagined for a woman who doesn't just survive her story; she rewrites it.

This season, the couturier draws heavily from the silhouettes and essence of 1930s and ’40s stars like Barbara Stanwyck, Rita Hayworth, and Orson Welles' fatal femmes. But instead of resigning them to tragedy or romance gone wrong, Murad dares to grant them power, direction, and most importantly—choice.

The Moodboard: A Heroine Heard

Titled “A Sheer Desire,” the collection references Hollywood’s golden age at its most opulent and most constrained. Back when studio moguls controlled not just contracts but characters' destinies, Murad introduced a radical shift freedom.

• Think Barbara Stanwyck in Baby Face—ambitious but bound.
• Picture Rita Hayworth in Gilda—sensual yet ensnared.

Now imagine them, through Murad’s gaze, shedding societal scripts for self-written epilogues.

The Zuhair Murad woman does not fade into the background. She is written in light, adorned in embroidery that speaks louder than dialogue.

The Palette: Emotions in Color

What makes this couture truly breathtaking is the calculated seduction of the color palette:

Ivory touched with gold whispers nostalgia and opulence

Enchanted blacks shimmer like noir mysteries

Velvety beiges and warm browns ground the drama in realism

Blushes and shadowy plums bleed emotion into silk

Every hue is designed to evoke a scene, a close-up, a moment of transformation.

The Silhouettes: Grace with an Edge

This isn't vintage for vintage’s sake. Murad lifts signature silhouettes from the archives of legendary costume designers—Adrian Greenburg, Edith Head, Jean Louis Berthault—and retools them for today’s icons.

Draped georgette ball gowns channel tuxedo-like authority

Embroidered jackets double as ceremonial armor

Bias-cut gowns glide like they’ve been kissed by moonlight.

Tulle, charmeuse, and velvet layer against each other, echoing both strength and fragility

And the furs? Ethical and embroidered, they prove that glamour need not come at a cost

Embroidery: The Beating Heart

There’s no Zuhair Murad collection without embroidery as narrative. This season, it’s celestial.

Pearls coil around torsos like constellations mid-orbit

Damask patterns mimic baroque plasterwork.

Baroque beading evokes grand set pieces from golden-era cinema.

The most subversive idea? These women don’t exit stage left. Murad’s muses walk into their light. His collection challenges not just fashion conventions, but cinematic ones.

Gone are the faded starlets and tragic muses. In their place stand women who write the final scene. Women who reign, not retire. Women who rise, not relent.

In Zuhair Murad Couture Fall Winter 2025, fashion becomes film, and film becomes the future. It’s a revival of glamour that doesn’t just sparkle—it speaks. This is couture for the woman who understands her story, owns her screen time, and edits her ending.

Image Courtesy - Zuhair Murad