“Fall is definitely my favorite time to dress. I love a layer,” Amelia Gray tells W Magazine’s [IG] Brynn Wallner. Gray graces the pages of W, wearing key pieces from Saint Laurent’s Fall 2025 collection.

The mood is peak sensuality in a September fashion pitch for tough/soft elegant seduction styled by Tess Herbert in images by Chris Colls [IG]./ Hair by Ward Stegerhoek; makeup by Dick Page

Amelia Gray’s Love of Saint Laurent

There’s no arm twisting involved in expressing Gray’s love for Saint Laurent’s forever love affair with pieces that mix traditional masculinity with feminine self-expression. Gray recalls Saint Laurent creative director Anthony Vaccarello’s decision to put her in a suit for his June menswear show:

“I went up to Anthony at the show and was like, ‘I’ve never felt more of a woman than I do tonight in this suit.’ It was a really powerful feeling for me, feeling so confident and so feminine — yet I was in a completely masculine look.”

Le Smoking’s Embrace by Young Women

While Yves Saint Laurent was not the first designer to put women in a male-identified suit, Le Smoking was the first tuxedo specifically designed for women. In fact, the Parisian Yves Saint Laurent maison was financially prosperous in 1966, even though the initial Le Smoking dive into androgyny was a commercial flop. Exactly one suit was sold

Introducing Le Smoking to Saint Laurent’s new Rive Gauche boutique, where younger women could afford it, was a great success. Gender fluidity became a design vibe cornerstone that confident women have worn for the many decades after 1966.

Front and center in the Chris Colls photoshoot is the new Saint Laurent Icarino bag. The perfectly slouchy boho bag in quilted suede or nappa leather is on the arm of Bella Hadid, Hailey Bieber, Zoe Kravitz and more. Fans share a common sentiment about the bag, calling the Icarino ‘Small but Mighty’.