The Key 2025 Coat Trends to Know and Shop
From breezy capes to winter-proof parkas and windbreakers
We have a saying at Marie Claire: sometimes the coat is the outfit. There’s a practicality at the root of the phrase since you can’t leave the house without some type of coat acting as armor against the cold weather. But we mean it more in the sense of personal style. When a classic trench is cut just right, or a cherry red duster is that wooing color pop, it’s the perfect style personification condensed into outerwear. The 2025 coat trends epitomize this fashion philosophy by ticking the utilitarian box—as the best winter jackets and coats always do—while helping cement your personalized take on winter fashion.
Christian Dior’s wooly capes and The Row’s scarf coats signal you’re a fan of flouncy drama, while the suedes seen at Saint Laurent and Bottega Veneta show you prefer more structure. The leopard-spotted and tiger-striped top coats at Chloé and Givenchy say that you want to kick off conversations and, ideally, get a compliment or two. But, again, what’s crucial about 2025's trending coats is that they don’t sacrifice function for fashion's sake. The nylon parkas and faux fur-trimmed anoraks at Burberry would hold up well in a snow squall, and Prada’s canary yellow rain jackets will be a literal bright spot on gloomy and wet January days.
Ahead, you’ll find more specifics on the best jackets and coats topping the Winter 2025 trends, as presented in designers’ collections for the coming season.
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If you've long toyed with the idea of trying a cape coat, 2025 is the year to do so. Christian Dior and Isabel Marant both showed wooly longline styles, ideal for those who want to make an absolute statement á la heroine in a period drama. But other capes presented for the coming year are more subtle—like Gabriela Hearst's cropped khaki poncho with a minimal amount of flair.
Aviator Approved
The fashion set has made its adoration of the leather bomber jacket trend absolute. The rugged style was a foremost fall trend that's now trickling into winter and, as shown at Saint Laurent and No. 21's Spring 2025 runways, will continue to carry on in many more months to come. There's a powerful "don't eff with me" attitude to a big and baggy bomber, so it's easy to see the jacket's appeal.
"Scoats" {Scarf-Coats)
Nuzzle up in a two-in-one scarf coat this winter, like those at The Row and Max Mara. An intuitive silhouette that does your cold-weather styling for you, the hybrid outerwear adds a level of ease you'll certainly appreciate on sub-thirty degree days.
Tech-Forward
Highly functional outerwear offers a baseline of warmth and weatherproofing this season, with designers ensuring you don't freeze or get too wet this winter. Prada and sister brand Miu Miu featured several tech-y and trendy windbreakers, while soft shell anoraks were a frequent flier at Burberry and No. 21.
Don't Sacrifice Your Neck
Victoria Beckham's funnel necks allow for easy entry into incognito mode, which the designer exhibited just the other day by burrowing into a high-neck trench coat from her own line.
Feline Frenzy
Calling all cat ladies: 2025 is the year to be loud with pride for your favorite furry animal. Whether it's a faux fur coat done in the leopard print trend or a barn jacket that would better blend in on a safari than the stables, you have permission to go a little wild.
Surprise, Surprise: It's Suede
The fact that Fall 2024's suede trend will carry into winter and spring 2025 is hardly a surprise. Those who've been charting the rise of the must-touch textile will tell you that it's more than proved its longevity as a boho-reminiscent material with easy elegance. Gabriela Hearst, Fendi, and Saint Laurent's suede coats and jackets drive the point home even further.
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Emma is the fashion features editor at Marie Claire, where she explores the intersection of style and human interest storytelling. She covers viral styling tips—like TikTok's "Olsen Tuck" and Substack's "Shirt Sandwiches"—and has written dozens of runway-researched trend reports about the ready-to-wear silhouettes, shoes, bags, and colors to shop for each season. Above all, Emma enjoys connecting with real people to discuss all facets of fashion, from picking a designer's brain to speaking with stylists, entertainers, artists, and C-suite executives about how to find a personal style as you age and reconnect with your clothes postpartum.
Emma also wrote for The Zoe Report, Editorialist, Elite Daily, Bustle, and Mission Magazine. She studied Fashion Studies and New Media at Fordham University Lincoln Center and launched her own magazine, Childs Play Magazine, in 2015 as a creative pastime. When Emma isn't waxing poetic about niche fashion discourse on the internet, you'll find her stalking eBay for designer vintage, reading literary fiction on her Kindle, doing hot yoga, and "psspsspssp-ing" at bodega cats.
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