Junya Watanabe has opened his latest menswear show at Paris Fashion Week with beige hunting jackets paired with discreet shirts and ties.

Amid an uncertain political climate, designers at the latest menswear show in Paris sent messages of resilience and resistance down the runway. Among the key looks was a reimagined “hipster” for 2025.

With a Filson partnership, Junya Watanabe takes us on a time warp back to the hipstery 2000s — plaid checks and all.

Given Junya Watanabe’s formidable range as a designer – he might explore sci-fi futurism one season, then punk style or formalwear the next – there’s usually an element of surprise when the show lights come up.

Big, strong guys with big, strong beards swung axes, hauled felling saws, cast rods, and much more on the wilderness-shot posters for the Seattle-founded brand Filson that lined the walls of the Junya Watanabe garage showspace.

The focus was on elevated "real world" dressing on view at Auralee and Lemaire, while Kim Jones' masterful minimalism at Dior was the season's showstopper.

Junya Watanabe unveiled its Fall/Winter 2025 collection during Paris Fashion Week. Check it out below:

A model wears a creation as part of the men's Junya Watanabe Fall-Winter 2025-2026 collection, that was presented in Paris, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/).

Junichi Abe is stepping down as chief designer of Japanese fashion brand Kolor after 21 years. He made the announcement during the presentation of the AW2

PARIS (AP) — Beige hunting jackets with oversized pockets, paired with discreet shirts and ties, opened Junya Watanabe’s latest menswear show at Paris Fashion Week Friday. It was a deceptively ...

A model wears a creation as part of the men’s Junya Watanabe Fall-Winter 2025-2026 collection, that was presented in Paris, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus). AP Entertainment

At Charles Jeffrey Loverboy, the designer’s adoration of “late ’70s and early ’80s icons like Lou Reed, Nico and Grace Jones in their early careers, as well as the legendary John Waters, Divine, and Crystal LaBeija”, served as inspiration, according to Jeffrey, with blunt fringes and plenty of volume.