Matthieu Blazy Delivers Child-like Innocence in Bottega Veneta's Spring/Summer 2025 Show
Creative director Matthieu Blazy questions whether we can “find power in gentleness” for his Spring/Summer 2025 collection.
The most fitting word to describe this collection is "tender," as it imagines a world organized not by adults but by children. From the seating—Zanotta’s Sacco armchairs reimagined as playful animals like rabbits, chickens, pandas, ladybugs, and snakes—to the accessories and garments, every element evokes a sense of youthful creativity. Woven leather flowers appear on the bags (“the new ‘bricolage’ bags are still in transformation,” says Blazy, as are the characters who carry them), while the T-shirts and shirts are crumpled, disrupting conventional refinement. “The child plays at being an adult,” explains Matthieu Blazy of the Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2025 collection.
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“As a kid, there is the adventure of the everyday,” continues the creative director, “there’s a feeling that anything could happen, no matter how fantastical and we are not so bound by regular expectations and conventions. The door is open to the possibility of strange realities and wonder, impossible scenarios that banish disillusion. This is about the power of sincerity over strategy.”
Bottega Veneta’s signature material, leather, is transformed, taking on new shapes like a sequined evening gown. Traditional materials are also reimagined, as tropical-weight merino wool is woven in jacquard to resemble stonewashed denim. It’s a whimsical playground you never want to leave.
