In a decisive move that reflects the shifting landscape of fashion, Arthur Arbesser presented his latest collection in-season during Milan Fashion Week — a natural evolution for a house now driven by its direct-to-consumer model.
The presentation coincides with a new beginning for the brand: a move into an old car-repair workshop, now transformed into a multidisciplinary creative space. The vast, light-filled studio houses everything under one roof — from the showroom and production area to spaces for painting fabrics, hosting exhibitions, and collaborating with other artists. The result is a palpable sense of freedom and self-determination.
“We finally have the room to do whatever we feel like doing,” Arbesser shares. “The traditional rules of the fashion system have dissolved, and that allows us to truly play by our own.”
That spirit of independence is reflected in the collection itself: smaller, more focused, and anchored in sustainability. Each season includes upcycled materials from past archives — a conscious blend of heritage and reinvention. For Fall/Winter 2025, Arbesser and his team rediscovered a roll of tobacco-and-black striped fabric from the Austrian mill Backhausen, first used in the Fall 2018 collection. It returns now as fluid trousers and a cheeky waistcoat, bridging past and present with effortless ease.
The recent studio move also unearthed over a decade of brand history — hundreds of books, fabric remnants, dying samples, and buttons — many of which found new life in the prints for this season. One motif features scanned images of these rediscovered treasures, transformed into a graphic composition against a black-and-yellow backdrop. Another print enlarges a vintage button into an abstract, blurred pattern, while the colored packing tapes used during the move inspired a vibrant multicolor stripe design.
Craftsmanship remains central: wide, contrasting stripes of fluid wool are sewn together into clean, minimal dresses with irregular, theatrical hemlines. Trousers range from skinny flares to relaxed, unisex cuts, while shirts stay light, oversized, and playfully printed.
This season also introduces a capsule collaboration with HANRO, the iconic Swiss underwear brand. The 15-piece collection — featuring checkerboard and vichy patterns in autumnal hues — blends seamlessly with Arbesser’s own Fall offering. The partnership marks the first-ever designer collaboration for HANRO, a testament to the designer’s growing influence beyond ready-to-wear.
Beyond fashion, Arbesser continues expanding into product design. This season sees the debut of the HUF Lamp, created with Milan-based lighting studio Servomuto. Inspired by the shape of a horse’s hoof — “Huf” in German — the lamp is available in two sizes and finished in vivid colors and prints drawn directly from the collection.
At its core, the collection radiates one unmistakable message: color and individuality matter. “It almost feels like an order to follow,” Arbesser says, “so the world doesn’t turn into one big neutral-toned place.”
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