Revealed
February 27, 2025
There isn’t any extra fertile style creativeness in Milanese style than Francesco Risso, whose newest assortment for Marni was the fruit of an intense creative collaboration with Olaolu Slawn and Soldier Boyfriend.
Marni fall/winter 2025 assortment in Milan – Courtesy
A collaboration that started with all three of them “locked together in a studio in London for a month,” in Risso’s phrases, and ended with their work displayed on the show-space partitions and printed onto many outfits. Massive photographs of wolves, fox tails, darkish birds, flying pigs; the fruit of a residency he dubbed “The Pink Sun”. All offered inside a surreal mock jazz membership, the place each merchandise of furnishings was draped into hand-painted black and white tablecloths or chair covers. Although this fall 2025 assortment, then again, was an explosion of colour.
“For me, this collection is the Marni Preservation Hall,” added Risso. Pre-show, waiters served Martini vermouth spritzes, as guests admired the art.
Marni fall/winter 2025 collection in Milan – Courtesy
Showing composite cool fashion: Crombie coats that become cocoons, tube skirts that had plenty of kick, and shirt dresses morphed into gowns. “Deconstructed or reconstructed, where I wanted to show my love of Marni. And where every piece was ‘a seed vault’,” defined the ever-philosophical Francesco. Pragmatism blended with practicality, he claimed the place embroidered flowers bloomed from satin attire, and robes had fantastical biomorphic shapes. Risso even indulged in a number of cool inside witticisms, like utilizing his shut buddy and fellow designer Laurence Steele as a mannequin, in an Edwardian high coat trimmed with fox tails. Or attiring his pal Aymeline Valade in a Victorian falling-off-the-shoulders crimson satin robe, completed with black wool shoulders, from which drooped cloth flowers. Its again completed with the identical print of a pumpkin head seen because the present backdrop. Slawn and Soldier are Nigerian artists dwelling in London, whom Francesco met in a random encounter. “Slawn an instinctive artist. Soldier is a Renaissance style creator. I sculpt with color,” expounded the very thrilled Risso, who later Wednesday night time hosted a gap in his Milan residence of their artwork.
