For spring 2025, Bottega Veneta’s Matthieu Blazy was inspired by childlike wonder. “As a kid, there is the adventure of the everyday—there’s a feeling that anything could happen, no matter how fantastical, and we are not so bound by regular expectations and conventions,” he said in the press release for the collection. “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.”
On the runway, his vision was most evident in the pair of teenaged-looking models wearing oversized suits as if ruffling through their parents’ clothing and trying on the suits to prim and pose in front of the mirror. The next day, when editors headed to the label’s headquarters to see the collection up close and personal (also known as a re-see), they saw just how much Blazy was thinking about “the adventure of the …