Antonio Marras Resort 2025 Collection

“I run from myself, I fear the encounter with who I really am,” said Antonio Marras. But fashion allows him to make the inner contrasts tangible and give space to everything that is both turbulent and calm. Marras likes to tell stories, and with the 2025 resort collection he became the narrator of a fairy tale set in an enchanted garden where nature overtakes the human hand that designed it. “Where perfection creates dissonance, the impulse of nature creates harmony,” says the designer.

The Hanbury Botanical Gardens, on the promontory of Capo Mortola, provided the backdrop for the collection: Thomas Hanbury, an English philanthropist, businessman and navigator, chose Liguria in 1869 to acclimatize plants from all over the world, creating a cosmopolitan oasis where diversity is freely intertwined. ‘Fior di Sardegna’ was the title of Marras’ collection, because – as Emily Dickinson wrote – being a flower is a great responsibility. Poetry is a constant in Marras’ aesthetic and philosophy, and this time he imagined dressing Eva Mameli Calvino, the first woman in Italy to earn a degree in botany and the mother of the famous writer Italo Calvino. Prints resulting from scanning herbaria were interrupted and expanded by solid colors, blurring the lines between masculine and feminine. Contrasts took shape in clean lines and 70s references, in refined embroidery and checked patterns, between stripes and damask fabrics, in parkas interrupted by pink. Romanticism, sometimes androgynous, becomes an instrument for tangible lightness and innate delicacy. From chiffon dresses to military fabrics, from tulle details to menswear to sequins, from knits to couture techniques (where sneakers were the new addition) Marras reflected that sought-after inconsistency that has always defined his identity.