Milan Fashion Week: How Diesel invites you to celebrate individual creativity for Fall/Winter 2025

Milan Fashion Week: This is what Diesel's Fall/Winter 2025/2026 show was like.

The Diesel show made a spectacular impression even before the actual collection presentation began: Huge, inflatable objects in the form of a kind of street art canvas formed the backdrop of this year's runway show at Milan Fashion Week. Over 7,000 artists brought this project to life through their participation.

"I love that thousands of people around the world worked on this set. We gave the global street art collective creative freedom, everyone expressed themselves in their own way. This is the democracy of Diesel," said Glenn Martens , the brand's creative director, who was only appointed to succeed John Galliano at Maison Margiela at the end of January 2025.

The collection is based on this idea of ​​creative freedom and individual expression: in an atmosphere that is somewhere between fairy tales and surrealism, one inevitably felt transported back to the past - to birthday parties and afternoons with friends after school, where a certain lightness and carefreeness was always present.

Against this colorful and playful backdrop, Diesel invited people to rediscover the childlike and experience human existence in a variety of colors and nuances. And so the brand's current collection can also be described as taken from life - following no rules and with an individual and varied palette of colors and materials.

The brand's typical aesthetic was also evident: a mix of denim , utility and pop culture elements, such as ultra-low-waist jeans and denim miniskirts, but also deformed tops and layering looks made of heavy fabrics.

On the catwalk, models also presented transparent pieces, asymmetric cuts and maximalist, voluminous shapes - a collection that is as diverse as humanity itself and thus celebrates the freedom of self-expression.

Part of the creative idea at Diesel is always the make-up , which this year also picked up on the provocative flair of the collection. Inge Grognard, lead make-up artist, opted for a graffiti aesthetic, which was expressed in striking eye shadow or a kind of exaggerated mouth.

Another detail was just as striking: the models wore contact lenses that seemed to obscure their gaze - an element that brought with it a slightly threatening flair. Is Glenn Martens trying to show us that we should always keep an eye on our own style instead of blindly following every trend? With the current collection, nothing stands in the way of individual self-expression.

This article first appeared on Vogue.it .

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