Adam Lippes Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection

Adam Lippes held his appointments in the spring of 2025 at his new salon on Fifth Avenue, steps from Central Park. The space was once occupied by Donna Summer. He will live across the foyer, in an even larger room that used to belong to Adolfo, Nancy Reagan’s designer. In a busy week full of shows and presentations throughout Manhattan and across the river in Brooklyn, it made for a wonderful interlude. There was a Sant’Ambroeus packed lunch, and for a repeat visit when the hustle and bustle of fashion month is over, a well-stocked bar, a stack of books and a fireplace. Oh, and he has a sales team and seamstresses on site; Although it is officially an appointment-only operation, he says the door will always be open. He already has a store downtown, which bravely opened in the early days of the post-pandemic reopening. But this private experience is something new for him – and for New York City. There’s a lot of talk about a return to retail, but not much about innovation on the sales floor. “I built the brand one-on-one and this is a luxury way to shop,” he said. His new spring collection felt at home in the beautiful space: serene and lovely, but not withdrawn. As tempting as it is to linger in the quiet embrace of his new salon, Lippes’ clients lead busy, active lives, and he designs for them. The first piece he pulled from a rack was a denim jacket, short and rectangular with gold buttons and his newly redesigned logo, made from hand-woven, stonewashed Japanese denim. It looked sophisticated, but not without a sense of cool. That’s a difficult balance, and it’s one that Lippes is getting better at. He had downtown editors cooing over a black double-satin evening coat with detachable hood, a skimpy silk crepe shirt dress with delicate broderie anglaise, a 1930s-esque butter yellow bias silk dress with twisted shoulder details, and an exceptional tunic. -Length tank of hand-carved mother-of-pearl drop beads worn with a charmeuse skirt. The most sumptuous material of all was the mulberry silk he used for both a bouclé skirt suit in the palest lilac and a knitted tank top, shown in black in the lookbook and worn over another midi skirt. “It’s the best silk in the world,” he noted. Chez Adam Lippes of course.