What’s on Oprah Winfrey’s list of favorite things for spring 2025? Perhaps 13 looks from Sally LaPointe’s latest collection, which featured Winfrey as its muse and face.
Closing out New York Fashion Week with a bang, New York designer LaPointe in Thursday unveiled her “LaPointe Spring 25: The Muse,” collection lookbook, with each custom look modeled by Winfrey and photographed by Ruven Afanador. The collection is available for pre-order on the brand’s e-commerce as of Thursday.
“I decided not to do the runway. I wanted to seem totally different, and thought, I need Oprah,” LaPointe said during a preview appointment, adding that Winfrey has periodically worn LaPointe for a few years now, such as a custom feather-accented navy suit for Adele’s One Night Only concert in 2021.
“I flew out to her house and fit her,” LaPointe said of the experience. “Then afterwards, she asked if I would like to have a snack on her terrace. She asked me how I got my start in my career, and it was then when I said, ‘Well, you know, being a young, self-taught female entrepreneur, it certainly had its challenges.’ I remember she sat back and said, ‘The power of never giving up.’ It stuck with me.”
LaPointe said that sentiment gave her the courage to ask Winfrey to be part of her spring line a few months ago — who better to model and inspire woman-empowered fashions than the icon of it?
“The main reason I said yes was because of how warm and open Sally was when I first met her. She is a woman in power, empowering other women through her work, her artistry and her clothes – and I wanted to support that,” Winfrey said in a statement.
The idea of never giving up and staying true to yourself also became the basis behind LaPointe’s spring collection, which homes in on exaggerated versions of brand signatures. For instance, a hand-applied feather cape with cascading hand-dyed ombre feathers that flowed from yellow into oat hues — a new technique also seen in shades of pink on a floor-length gown; dazzling hand-embroidered, sequin fringed midi skirts, and playfully glam micro pailette embellished netted cape tops, as seen paired with new stoned denim jeans on Winfrey. The denim, which has become a strongpoint of LaPointe’s collections, was also cut into a hybrid tailored jacket with lengthy sheer white organza hem.
“Winfrey is ultimately the epitome of who my woman is. Picking her, too, wasn’t out of the blue. She’s the definition of empowered female, and she likes to be put together, but not overdone. It was a seamless, easy fit,” LaPointe said of her muse and lineup filled with easy to wear, glamorous and confident fashions designed to empower all women, by a woman.
