Marni‘s Fall/Winter 2025 collection begins not in a design studio, but in an East London artist’s workspace. Here, creative director Francesco Risso joined forces with artists Olaolu Slawn and Soldier Boyfriend for something raw, immediate, and deeply personal. The result? Clothes that feel like wearable art, not as costume, but as natural extension.

The collaboration started with large-scale paintings, mythical satyrs, fairy tale creatures, and sharp symbols that dance between playful and unsettling. These same figures now stride across shirts, dresses, and boxer shorts in crisp poplin stripes. Wolves, tears, and tulips repeat like visual mantras, their meanings shifting with each reappearance. The original artworks didn’t just inspire the collection; they became it, translated faithfully into prints and embroideries that keep the energy of the brushstroke.

Texture plays its part. Knitwear mimics the thick strokes of tempera paint, yarn twisting into vibrant color fields. Brushed cotton jersey slouches into easy sweatshirts and shorts, while bags hybridize tank tops and totes, practical with an off-kilter charm.

The campaign, shot in an old Georgian house layered with East London stories, brings everything full circle. Slawn and Soldier wear the pieces like second skins, the clothes now artifacts of their own creative process.

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