Texture & Edge
Behind the Curtain
Dries Van Noten
What’s fashion without a little bit of drama? For Julian Klausner, Creative Director of Dries Van Noten, it may just be his raison d’être. Fall/Winter 2025 marks Julian’s first collection for the house after its eponymous designer retired late last year. Naturally, Julian’s visual debut arrives with bated breath–and he has stepped into the spotlight with vigor.
modern Madonna
Uma Wang
For Uma Wang’s Fall/Winter 2025, the designer called upon Piero della Francesca’s Madonna del Parto, a Renaissance era fresco depicting the pregnant Madonna in a stance of strength. A powerful symbol for the divine feminine, Uma muses on the painting’s motifs to define her own concepts of grit, presence and the responsibility of “bearing”–burdens, authority and babies included. As cleverly noted by Wang Zhi for Vogue, this collection seizes on the idea of women ‘taking up space’ and creates the armor ideal for doing so.
