For his spring 2025 couture show, the designer looked to fine art.

PARIS (AP) — The sounds of spring, with babbling brooks and birdsong, set a serene yet surreal tone Wednesday as Elie Saab unveiled his latest couture collection inside the soaring Palais de Tokyo in Paris. It was punctuated only by whoops and clicking camera shutters as Eva Longoria swept in.

A woman can’t live by eveningwear alone, so Saab continued to lean into day dressing, for example neatly channeling seasonal cues of tweediness on a jacket in openwork wool shot through with silver on a tulle base,