The Spring 2025 season of Menswear Milan Fashion Week is officially a-go, with Adrian Appiolaza‘s debut menswear collection for Moschino kick-starting the fashion festivities. The Argentinian designer was appointed creative director of the luxury Italian fashion house back in January, and presented his first womenswear offering a mere month later during the Fall 2024 season of Milan Fashion Week. Appiolaza continues to play with the codes of the label founded by the late Franco Moschino in 1983 and is on a mission to reinvent iconic Moschino motifs. For Spring 2025, Appiolaza reintroduced the “survival jacket” from 1992 (complete with hand sanitizer, notepads and pens etc.). A pin-striped jacket shown in the collection happened to be a shirt. A tank top was made entirely paper clips and models carried watermelon bags and wore croissant necklaces. To finish off his co-ed collection, Appiolaza created looks matching his vision of summertime during the 1990s in the idyllic Italian countryside.
Read below the reactions of theFashionSpot’s forum members:
“I think this is a solid debut with the right balance of fun and quirkiness. While I like Scott’s tenure which brought a lot of fun (even superficial) to the brand, Adrian has the potential to steer the brand to a new direction.” [JohannesL]
“Infinitely better than his Moschino debut show, a step in the right direction for sure.” [TianCouture]
“I like it a lot. The collection has its own energy. The second to last look has nice styling, the white robe with hotel slippers as pockets is really cool.” [alwaysademo]
“It’s definitely going in a right direction. On an encouraging note, the whimsy is strong and charming, with that combination of Magritte and Duchamp surrealism and even a sense of Miyazaki naive wonderment. At his strongest, I’d even say he’s doing it better than Franco: with the best being the deconstructed women’s suiting.” [Phuel]
“I like it. That was a great entertaining show.” [THD96]
“Its a lot of wild ideas and things going on which also happens to be the reason we love Moschino.” [Urban Stylin]
“I like it very much. It’s quirky and relatable! There are some nice pieces.” [Lola701]
“I see a lot of potential and I’m definitely intrigued for more.” [thiago]
See all the looks from the Moschino Menswear Spring 2025/Resort 2025 collection and join the conversation, here.
