Sarah Burton is legendary for her work leading Alexander McQueen after the latter's death. On March 7, she showed her first collection for Givenchy.

Sarah Burton takes the reigns at Givenchy in style - The designer of the Princess of Wales’ iconic wedding dress makes her Givenchy runway debut.

In Paris this week, those designers were Haider Ackermann at Tom Ford; Julian Klausner, the righthand to Dries Van Noten who now leads the label following Van Noten’s retirement last year; and Sarah Burton, the longtime McQueen designer who is now at Givenchy.

Givenchy's new creative director has debuted in one of Paris Fashion Week's most anticipated moments and a long-awaited reset for a house that, in recent years, has struggled to find its footing.

The countdown to Paris Fashion Week fall 2025 officially commenced last September, when dual announcements came out that Sarah Burton and Haider Ackermann were taking the helms of Givenchy and Tom Ford,

Editors from Grazia U.K., Harper’s Bazaar U.K., Elle U.K. and Wallpaper documented the commotion of their canceled trains on Instagram.

For her first collection as creative director, the British designer went right back to the essence of the French couture house: the silhouettes of the clothes and the woman who wears them

Top models Alex Consani and Eva Herzigová, along with Gwendoline Christie, Kit Connor, and Ryan Destiny turned out to celebrate Burton’s arrival.

So often you see a heritage fashion house with a man's name above the door—sometimes to discover women quietly masterminding every stitch of real-life wearability in its designs, like the perfect button-down,