Eckhaus Latta Fall 2025: Less Is More

“Anti-fantasy.”

That’s what Eckhaus Latta was after for fall 2025, they said after their short-and-sweet, 27-look collection, a marked elevation for design duo Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta.

“We want things to feel like you’ll really wear them,” Eckhaus said. “This is not for red carpet, or I’m taking a picture of myself on Instagram.”

So much of fashion now is smoke and mirrors. A runway collection that barely gets produced to prop up a logo business, a roster of celebrity ambassadors to sell an image to sell leather goods. Precious runway costumes for a rarified life no one is living. So there was something refreshing in hearing them speak truth and say that people just want something cool and easy to wear. They offered that for more occasions than before.

The bicoastal duo is at heart a jeans and knits brand with an art school spin, and there were those basics: great-looking denim with washed gray and taupe creased quadrants, marled knits, cargos with half moon shaped zipper pockets and tarp utility canvas skirts.

Models carried the trappings of the everyday — Eckhaus Latta’s handsome new bags, an iPhone with a mirrored Casetify case, a cheetah print bong made with Gotham…all evidence of the label’s category expansion and deepening brand partnerships.

But this season also brought them more in line with designer ready-to-wear with elevated leather pieces made in collaboration with Ecco Kollective — slick leather bonded wool hoodies cut so that they shrugged with attitude, a slick black leather circle skirt paired back to a soft fisherman sweater and extraordinary-looking pants and low-slung skirt with yellow, black and white Rothko-esque color fields made using laminated and buffed leather strips.

“We thought a lot about reduction,” Latta said. “So often our process is to make a lot, see what works, then take away. That felt so excessive in the time we were making this collection, so we thought what if we start with that sense of editing from the beginning?”

It’s a message more designers should take to heart.