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Versace Fall/Winter 2025: The Stylish Superheroes of Versace
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Versace unveiled its Fall/Winter 2025 collection at Milan Fashion Week, showcasing the brand’s signature Barocco prints, sharp tailoring, and punk-inspired elements that define its bold Italian aesthetic.
Versace unveiled its Fall/Winter 2025 collection at Milan Fashion Week, showcasing the brand’s signature Barocco prints, sharp tailoring, and punk-inspired elements that define its bold Italian aesthetic.
“With this collection, I didn’t follow any rules,” Donatella Versace stated. “I only followed the DNA of Versace.” That fearless approach made the show electrifying, set in an abandoned tram station in northern Milan.
Donatella described the collection as being designed for “Versace superheroes,” emphasizing empowerment and boundary-pushing fashion—an ethos that has captivated the fashion world for decades. The concept harks back to 1995, when Gianni Versace released Men Without Ties, a book created with legendary photographers like Richard Avedon and Herb Ritts, showcasing his groundbreaking approach to masculinity. Perhaps Donatella had that moment in mind when she opened the show with three models wrapped in quilted Versace Home blankets, transformed into dramatic opera coats and haute couture evening gowns.
Since commemorating the 20th anniversary of Gianni Versace’s passing, Donatella has made it a tradition to revisit the brand’s archives, modernizing the legacy that has secured Versace’s place in global luxury fashion. This season, she reinterpreted iconic elements from the past, such as the asymmetrical shoulders from Gianni’s final Atelier Versace couture collection for Fall 1997 and the gravity-defying pleated ballet costumes he designed. The collection also featured signature V-shaped patchwork—integrated into color-blocked dresses, sculptural tops, and contrast-stitched pockets on structured shirts. Donatella’s message was clear: No one understands these design codes better than I do.
“Being told what to do, being told what to sell… I think fashion is creativity, and creativity is instinct. If you try to please too many people—too many managers—there is no creativity left,” she asserted during a conversation at Milan’s Triennale Museum.
Pushing Innovation and Revisiting the Future
Donatella Versace always has her eyes on the future. The innovative 3D-printed pieces introduced last season returned in even more dazzling iterations, this time adorned with oversized crystals. “When I look at young people, sometimes they put clothes together in such an interesting way,” she observed.
However, some of the most striking pieces in the collection paid homage to her own design history. Two show-stopping gowns—one in metallic gold and the other in silver—were inspired by Donatella’s debut haute couture collection for Fall 1998. These shimmering patchwork dresses, crafted from luminous metallic threads, captured the fearless glamour that defines Versace.
