048: Spring 2025 Highlights & Woven Wardrobe

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This week, we’re sharing our woven picks for combating the summer heat and analyzing Kendrick’s wardrobe. But first, more runway reviews…

(MORE) SPRING / SUMMER 2025 HIGHLIGHTS

As Paris and Milan wrapped up, we had a front row seat to behind-the-scenes of Berlin Fashion Week courtesy of one Ms. Kim Russell (@thekimbino). The Perth-based stylist gave us the added inspiration to take a closer look at Spring / Summer 2025 and revisit a highlight or two from the season.

ANONYMOUS CLUB

American fashion designer Shayne Oliver is back on the runway. If you recall from an earlier dispatch, his legacy has been quite cemented with Hood By Air followed by an avant-garde turn as a guest collaborator with Jean Paul Gaultier. In his now third act as creative director of Anonymous Club, Oliver showed his Spring / Summer 2025 collection in Berlin proffering a similar flavor of subverted streetwear with dramatic proportions. In every way, it made sense to show in a market like Berlin where its off-center locale gives more space to push boundaries. Oliver’s reemergence begs the question of whether one of the pioneers of 2010s high-fashion streetwear can influence the industry writ large again.

MARTINE ROSE

Back in Milan, Martine Rose did what she does best: twisted tailoring paired with rock and roll sportswear. Rose has long spoken about grounding her designs in what is real and authentic to those in her community. With her all-over-prints, chaps-style denim with leather inserts, and one-of-a-kind footwear, you’ve got to be a bit daring to pull off a Martine Rose fit. With her work on Balenciaga Men’s (Demna hired Rose to consult when he joined in 2015), a few of her tropes found their way from her namesake label to the French house, in the form of typography and mixed media on lengthy outerwear, graphic tees, and nylon separates — designs that carried Rose’s indelible touch and no doubt shaped the house of Balenciaga’s future. Looks like the future has caught up to Rose.

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