As Jaime Álvarez places it, typically you need to step away to reconnect. After almost a yr’s absence, the inventive director of Mans has returned to the Madrid runway with a fall 2025 assortment the place cloth is on the core. His imaginative and prescient was to strike a steadiness between simplicity and complexity, a purpose he achieved by approaching his menswear and womenswear individually. “In earlier seasons, we tailored males’s patterns to ladies, however this yr we’ve created a ladies’s sample from scratch, 100% for them, which is what our clients have been asking for,” stated the Seville-born designer.
As for the fits, a Mans signature, the collars had been now hand-stitched to the lapels for a extra streamlined impact. These sartorial touches coexisted with shirts and pencil skirts, reinterpreted by way of frills and pleats, dyed in several shades of yellow and pink, and in wealthy pairings like aubergine and navy blue. The supplies additionally embraced contrasts: “I wished to mix the brutalism of cool wool, usually utilized in tailoring, with delicate materials like organza and chiffon,” Álvarez revealed. Sheer clothes additionally posed a problem, he shared, significantly due to the tailoring complexities they normally demand on the atelier. This consideration to element is the idea for the sluggish however regular progress of the model, now searching for to achieve new audiences: “For the previous yr, we’ve observed an inflow of consumers from Latin American nations who’re choosing high-quality Spanish design,” he acknowledged.
