The summer 2025 fashion trend has a provocative and direct name: the “No Pants” Trend. International celebrities such as Hailey Bieber, Kristen Stewart, and Charli XCX are challenging conventions by sporting minimalist outfits where culottes, bodysuits, and blazers take center stage. This new aesthetic breaks with traditional norms and stands as a symbol of freedom of expression, genderless fashion, and female empowerment.
What Is the “No Pants” Trend?
The “No Pants” Trend is one of the most viral fashion trends of 2025. Originating on the runways of brands like Miu Miu, Coperni, and Bottega Veneta, this trend has taken over social media and the red carpet. The idea is simple yet disruptive: do away with pants as the main garment, making room for visible underwear, designer culottes, sculpted bodysuits, and mini shorts hidden under oversized shirts or tailored jackets.
More than just a provocation, the No Pants trend is a manifesto: a declaration of freedom, of breaking the mold, and of fluid identity, engaging with major contemporary themes related to the body, gender, and the representation of femininity.
The origins and fashion icons that launched the trend
While the trend was still tentative in 2023, 2025 marked its explosion. Gen Z influencers and stars have enthusiastically embraced the “no pants look”: Charli XCX turned it into a symbol of her new album “Brat,” while Hailey Bieber, for example, wears it with cuissardes and an oversized blazer in neutral tones.
The runways also confirm the trend: Miu Miu launched the “culotte couture,” an embroidered piece designed to be the focal point of both day and evening looks. Coperni, on the other hand, presented mini dresses reminiscent of sports lingerie, emphasizing the duality between delicacy and power.
How to Adapt the “No Pants” Look to Real Life
One of the most frequently asked questions is: “Can I really wear the ‘no pants’ look in everyday life?” The answer is yes—but with smarts and sensitivity.
Here are some style tips for incorporating the trend into your everyday wardrobe:
1. An oversized blazer and visible culottes
The easiest way to pull off the no-pants look is to pair high-waisted culottes with a long blazer or a men’s-style shirt. Proportions are key: choose oversized pieces on top and more fitted silhouettes on the bottom, playing with volume.
2. Strategic layering
Layering is your ally for making the look more wearable. Add opaque tights, colored socks, sheer skirts, or cycling shorts under the culottes for a more urban and less provocative effect.
3. Fashion-Forward Culottes
Culottes are now full-fledged fashion items: made of wool, denim, silk, or technical cotton, often adorned with bold prints, embroidery, or playful slogans. Choose tailored styles in neutral or neon colors to create bold yet elegant looks.
4. Accessories: The Secret to Balance
Complete the look with summer 2025 fashion accessories: sporty sunglasses, cuissardes boots, oversized leather bags, or platform sneakers. These elements give the outfit more structure and visual balance.
Why the “No Pants” Trend Is a Political (as Well as a Fashion) Statement
Fashion has always reflected social changes. In 2025, the “No Pants” trend is much more than an aesthetic phenomenon: it’s an expression of courage, independence, and a break from gender stereotypes.
Wearing culottes as the focal piece of an outfit means reclaiming the right to one’s own body, autonomy, and choice. It means removing underwear from the voyeuristic gaze to restore its stylistic value and identity. It also means denouncing the hypersexualization of the female body through a stylistic language that is both ironic and liberating.
A trend that also speaks to inclusivity
Another revolutionary aspect of this trend is its inclusivity: men and women, non-binary and queer people, interpret the “no-pants look” as they please. Genderless fashion is establishing itself as the new normal, thanks to garments that belong not to a gender but to an attitude.
Culottes thus become a creative canvas for independent designers and emerging brands looking to challenge the conservative view of fashion.
Psicopatici Italia: Our Approach to the “No Pants” Trend
Psicopatici Italia also believes that fashion should be an act of creative defiance.
That’s why it has created a line of provocative, unconventional culottes, designed for those who aren’t afraid to be looked at—and above all, to stand out.
The designs?
- A pair of sheer lace culottes—sensual and brazen—that play with the conventions of lingerie to take them out of the intimate realm and straight into the spotlight.
- Black leather culottes, with a bold cut and daring aesthetic, for those who love to push beyond the traditional concept of clothing.
At a time when fashion is seeking new narratives, Psicopatici Italia believes that’s exactly where to start: challenging clichés and making space for those who reject labels, sizes, genders, and expectations.
Because a pair of culottes, if well-designed, can become a radical statement of identity.
And from there, everything can begin.
In conclusion, the “No Pants” Trend isn’t just a 2025 fashion trend: it’s an aesthetic and cultural revolution. And Psicopatici Italia is part of this change, with designs that don’t shy away from the gaze of others—but challenge it.
Because the body is freedom, and it’s time for fashion to be too.
