As London Fashion Week 2025 unfolds, it’s clear that the runways are speaking a familiar language to those who love vintage and antique jewellery. From baroque pearls to oversized cuffs, from romantic heirlooms to “modern relics,” many of the season’s strongest accessory trends draw heavily on history. Here’s what stood out and why these trends mean opportunity for collectors, curators, and anyone enchanted by jewellery with a past.
Key Trends that Echo the Past
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Maximalism & Personal Storytelling
Jewellery is not just decoration, it’s narrative. Layered charms, lockets, and personalised talismans are everywhere again. -
Baroque & Irregular Pearls
Pearls with organic, imperfect forms are taking centre stage from cuffs to bold necklaces. -
Romantic & Retro References
Designers are drawing on Victorian, Edwardian, and 20th-century glamour, reimagining heirloom motifs for modern styling. -
Statement Metalwork & Cuffs
Oversized cuffs and bold metal textures are back, echoing the sculptural forms of Art Deco and mid-century jewellery. -
Mixed Metals & Patinas
Combining gold and silver, or celebrating tarnish and texture, is firmly on trend, making antique finishes more desirable than ever. -
Colourful Gemstones & Unique Cuts
Designers are choosing characterful stones over perfection, celebrating unusual cuts, vibrant palettes, and mismatched gems.
Designer Highlights from LFW 2025
This year’s runways offered plenty of jewellery inspiration that echoes vintage and antique styles.
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Paul Costelloe celebrated 1960s glamour with bows, florals, and pastels, a perfect match for mid-century brooches, charm bracelets, and pastel gemstone pieces.
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Bora Aksu embraced romantic “broken doll” aesthetics with lace, embroidery, and frills, inviting pairings with delicate cameos, seed pearls, and filigree.
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Harris Reed lit up the runway with theatrical silhouettes and a flair for romance, creating an atmosphere where statement cuffs, sweeping earrings, and jewels with a touch of fantasy felt perfectly at home.
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Chopova Lowena brought their signature clash of folklore and punk to the runway, layering carabiner chains, oversized charms, and bold earrings that turned hardware into high fashion the kind of playful chaos where vintage lockets, brooches, and chunky chains would feel right at home.
Street style and emerging designers showcased oversized cuffs, bold cocktail rings, layered chains, and teardrop-shaped earrings, all staples in antique collections from Art Deco to mid-century.
Across collections, irregular pearls, colourful gemstones, and mixed metals were everywhere, highlighting the beauty of patina, asymmetry, and unique stones often found in antique jewellery.
London’s Heritage & Why It Matters
For vintage and antique jewellers, London Fashion Week is more than a showcase of what’s new. It’s a reminder of how the past continues to shape the present. Every season, designers turn to history for inspiration, and this year was no exception.
London’s long tradition of skilled craftsmanship was echoed on the runways, with details that recalled the delicacy of brooches, lockets, and fine filigree work. These aren’t simply trends but enduring techniques, carefully passed down through generations of artisans.
There was also a quiet nod to sustainability woven through the week. Choosing vintage jewellery is, at its heart, an act of preservation honouring what already exists, valuing the materials and the workmanship, and giving each piece the chance to tell a new chapter of its story.
In many ways, London Fashion Week 2025 showed us that the future of fashion doesn’t mean leaving the past behind. Instead, it thrives when heritage and modern creativity walk hand in hand.