While Gucci, Saint Laurent and almost all of Kering'sĀ other fashion houses saw sales fall by up to 25% in the third quarter, Bottega Veneta became the luxury conglomerate's beaming light of hope. The Italian label, led by Matthieu Blazy, was the only Kering brand to post positive sales growth ā a 5% jump in revenue, to be exact ā amid a global luxury slowdown. It's safe to say the imprint's unfeigned creativity (animal-shaped lounge chairs!), classy leather goods (Sardine bags!) and famous co-signs (A$AP Rocky, Jacob Elordi!) had at least something to do with driving those figures higher.
The flourishing brand has just unveiled its Resort 2025 collection, an eclectic style manifesto filled with all the artisanal, punchy, dramatic and timeless flavors of Blazy's craft. āI read a lot of books about elegance, about how to style yourself," Blazy told Vogue of this line's inspiration. "And at the same time, I rewatched a lot of Anthony Bourdain. There are a lot of parallels between the pleasure of cooking and the pleasure of putting things together on the silhouette."
On Bottega's Resort 2025 platter, you'll find the label's famously cross-stitched leather tops and bags; animal-printed coats, skirts and boots and button-less plaid collared shirts, among stylish sides of firetruck-red scarves, buttery pastel-green gloves and Richard Scarry's Biggest World Book Ever. The collection is both appropriately spicy (snakeskin overcoats, multi-hued sequin gowns, braggadocious suiting and fĆŖte-approved gold skirts) and sweetly sophisticated (fine double-breasted blazers, traditionally pleated trousers, conservative knitwear and serious eveningwear). Blazy's palette, as stitched here, is delightfully expansive.
"What I really wanted to do this season, it was pure pragmatically epicurean. I just took everything I like," Blazy added. "It was like in Italy, when the ingredients are good, you donāt need to do too much with it.ā In that case, perhaps a Bottega Veneta cookbook would become a sell-out success, too.
Explore Bottega Veneta's Resort 2025 collection in the gallery above.
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