Ready-to-Wear Fall-Winter 2025: Fashion as Art, Politics, and Business

Core Elements of Fashion Design

• 💡 Creating a fashion collection relies on three fundamental elements: silhouette, color, and material.
• 🎨 These elements, whether for clothing or accessories, require a compelling narrative and storytelling to transform them into desirable objects.

Designer Inspirations and Narratives

• 🧥 Marine Serre draws inspiration from Lynchian aesthetics, exploring ambiguity between past, present, and future, aiming to make wearers feel like characters in a film.
• 💭 Lilia Litkovska's collection is influenced by childhood memories and a desire to combine personal history with a chic, sexy wardrobe, emphasizing feelings of power and specialness.
• 🎭 The concept of "performer" suggests that fashion involves embodying roles and staging oneself, with garments designed to capture movement and blend into urban life.

Fashion as a Political Statement

• 🕊️ The collection created in Ukraine during wartime highlights the need for unity, belief in peace for future generations, and resilience amidst conflict.
• 🇺🇦 Designers are working under missile attacks and alarms, emphasizing the importance of peace for children and the future.

The Business and Culture of Fashion

• 👜 Bags are presented as emblematic luxury items, versatile and adaptable to various outfits and occasions.
• 📈 While consumption has intensified in some regions like China, there's a strong dynamic in the United States, the Middle East, and emerging economies.
• 🗣️ Fashion Week discussions often center on bags, consumption, enthusiasts, connoisseurs, and the passing down of knowledge within the industry.

Philosophical and Absurd Reflections

• 🤔 Fashion can be a philosophical reflection, blurring the lines between an object like a bag and a garment, creating ambiguity in definition.
• 💬 The language of fashion can also be found in observing clothes in motion, not just in direct discussions about the industry itself.