Viktor & Rolf is making a return to ready-to-wear, bringing its avant-garde couture sensibilities to on a regular basis style with the autumn/winter 2025 ready-to-wear assortment.
Viktor & Rolf returns to ready-to-wear with fall/winter 2025 assortment. – Viktor & Rolf
Drawing inspiration from their Fall/Winter 2024 Haute Couture assortment, ‘Haute Abstraction’, the designers translate high-fashion drama into wearable silhouettes. Sharp tailoring, signature detailing, and wealthy textures outline the gathering, mixing structured precision with sensible components like denim and a collaboration with heritage outerwear model Waterproof coat.
Intricate couture components, equivalent to delicate tulle ruffles, seamlessly combine into the gathering, elevating necessities like denims and jackets with sculptural quantity. Standout items embody tailor-made balloon trousers in Japanese tuxedo wool and a relaxed denim variation.
The colour palette transitions from deep, moody tones of black, gray, and darkish berry to lighter accents of white, mint, and sky-blue denim. A traditional beige hue, ‘golden fawn,’ seems in gabardine daywear, reinforcing Viktor & Rolf’s dedication to timeless wardrobe necessities.
Textures play a key function, with a mix of Italian silk satin, Japanese tuxedo wool, silk-viscose floral jacquard, mohair, superfine alpaca knits, and natural cotton denim. The gathering’s layered, duplicated, and deconstructed components echo signature methods from Viktor & Rolf’s archival collections, together with Spring/Summer time 2002’s ‘White’ and Fall/Winter 2003’s ‘One Woman Show’.
“Shifting from couture to ready-to-wear was about designing for real life. Viktor & Rolf wanted to keep the bold shapes and craftsmanship of couture but make them effortless. Everyday life is full of contrasts – moving through different spaces and situations that define us. It’s not about losing bold expression but using it to elevate the ordinary,” the Amsterdam-based style home mentioned in a press release.
The gathering launches with a marketing campaign that unfolds towards the streets of Paris, captured by Alessandro Furchino Capria.
