Best Of 2025: A Look Back on an Exceptional Year
As 2025 draws to a close, the Say Who team would like to extend our warmest wishes. To celebrate an outstanding year, we have put together a remarkable gallery of portraits featuring established figures and newcomers, gallery owners and actors, singers and painters: a comprehensive retrospective of the more than 1,500 events captured by our photographers and videographers.
As usual, fashion kicked off the year in January with a series of fashion weeks, each more dazzling than the last. Among the most striking, Say Who remembers the shows by Louis Vuitton, Amiri, Dolce&Gabbana, Ann Demeulemeester, Casablanca, EgonLab, Hermès and Rick Owens.
Beyond the numerous exhibitions held across its incredible network of art galleries, this year has further demonstrated Paris’ position as an artistic and cultural capital and its unparalleled dynamism. A French equivalent of the Met Gala, the Grand Dîner du Louvre brought together international celebrities including Gigi Hadid, Keira Knightley, Doechii and Michelle Yeoh. France’s largest museum didn’t stop there, hosting an exceptional summer fashion night kicked off by a memorable performance by Jordan Roth. While the Grand Palais finally celebrated its full reopening, the Centre Pompidou closed its doors for the next five years, following a series of exceptional closing exhibitions and an explosive performance by Cao Guo-Qiang. Paris also hosted world-renowned art fairs and salons, including Art Basel, Paris Photo, Art Paris, Design Miami, PAD, Ceramic Art Fair, Offscreen, Maison&Objet, Moderne Art Fair, as well as numerous literary and art awards, such as the recent Marcel Duchamp Prize, awarded to artist Xie Lei.
How can we discuss cinema without first mentioning the Cannes Film Festival? Chaired by Juliette Binoche, this 78th edition awarded its Palme d’Or to Jafar Panahi for A Simple Accident, and revealed the talents of Wagner Moura and Nadia Melliti in the best interpretations. Cannes also means almost two weeks of glamour, red carpets and glitter, which Say Who immortalised with commitment. Among the star-studded crowd were Pedro Pascal, Angelina Jolie, Robert de Niro, Spike Lee, Robert Pattinson, Tom Cruise, Scarlett Johansson, Diane Kruger, and many more. Italy was not to be outdone, with the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, highlighted by the victory of Jim Jarmusch and his film Father Mother Sister Brother, as well as numerous red carpets featuring Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett, Francis Ford Coppola, Heidi Klum, George Clooney and Emma Stone.
Art, fashion, beauty, cinema, perfumes and jewellery: Mucem, Musée d’Art Moderne, L’Oréal Paris, Deauville, Chaumet, Bvlgari and Cartier. All these industries and key players have contributed to a year that could not have been more intense, dazzling and exhilarating. Thus is forged Say Who’s merry community, which includes Isabelle Huppert, Takashi Murakami, Jacob Elordi, David Hockney, Sophie Calle, Natalie Portman, Rihanna, Yayoi Kusama, Barbara Palvin, Bella Hadid, Sarah Andelman, Bill Murray, Daniel Buren, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Emmanuel Perrotin, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Charlotte Le Bon, Anselm Kiefer, Charlotte Cardin and many other fascinating figures, to be discovered or rediscovered in this best of!
Photos: Jean Picon, Astrid Staes, Ayka Lux, Tomy Do, Sheraz Debbich, Edouard Richard, Michaël Huard, Louis Liébert, Julia Hervouin, Ludovica Arcero, Niccolò Campita, Alessio Ammannati, Camilla Vazzoler and Alessandro Galatoli.
