Coperni Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear

“Just to let you know, everyone on my stream can read what’s on your screen.” This kind warning was delivered by Kalina Kaatsup, who sat in her Razer gaming chair on my left. She was turned away from the runway to instead face the PC from which she was streaming on Twitch. Kaatsup was one of the 200 gamers inside the Adidas Arena tonight who played a key part in the latest show from Coperni.

As Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant explained beforehand, their collection was presented within a throwback re-enactment of a LAN party, a ’90s-originated form of social computing in which gamers would get together to connect their PCs through a Local Access Network and play multiplayer games. Said Vaillant: “Gaming is like a religion, and it’s so specific that we had to collaborate. We wanted to reflect the human side of gaming as well as the feminine side.”

The majority of the gamers around me stayed focused on Rocket League and Fortnite as the models walked (Kaatsup was an exception—while it was happening she was streaming the show). This gamer participation created an authentic symmetry with a collection that referenced many archetypal protagonists of both canonical games and early movies that either adapted these games or which attempted to process tech.

Thus there were obvious cosplay homages to Lisbeth Salander’s dragon tattoo. The Suzuki biker jacket worn by Kate Libby (played by Angelina Jolie) in Hackers was cloned and Copernified. Alice’s Resident Evil wardrobe (immortalized in film on Milla Jovovich) was riffed on in the opening dress and the red “sleeping bag dress” which the designers said was a hat-tip to LAN party people so dedicated that they would sleep by their PCs. The designers also upgraded Lara Croft’s thigh holsters by adding popper-closure storage cases to the models’ hosiery: these cargo tights were perfect for toting multiple devices on the go. There were anime-inspired sailor fukus worn with five-finger ballerinas.

A tapestry print was realized, the designers said, with a new on-demand digital printing technique and worked into long dresses whose settings for split and hem length were controlled by an adjustable belted garter hybrid. Another one of these dresses came coated in machine-applied sequins whose pattern attractively recreated the static fuzz of a lost connection.

This season’s Swipe bag was delivered as a Tamagotchi. The show also saw the launch of a new Coperni edition of the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Satisfyingly I was wearing my own earlier-iteration pair of Metas as the designers explained they had specified that the frames be delivered semi-opaque in order to see the form of the tech inside. Said Meyer: “We get asked to do collaborations every day with tech…” Vaillant: “Not every day, darling.” Meyer: “OK, not quite every day. But this one, I think, is really good.”

Treating tech culture as a source of fashion reference, nostalgia and inspiration is part of what makes Coperni (now distributed in 200 real-world stores globally) pretty unique. Tonight’s set-up was a super fun exploration of the overlaps between geek and chic.