A chaotic dialogue between fashion and road culture
Diesel Fall/Winter 2025 Runway show Broke the new land, converted a traditional catwalk into an oversize, inflatableAnd professional artwork. Set within what is said to be the greatest graffiti Establishment ever made, space takes shape with more than three kilometers of hand painted fabrics, wrapped in raw, expressive scars of more than 7,000 graffiti artists. The show is built as a visual manifesto. The set, huge and unconventional, invites the audience to a chaotic dialogue between fashion and road culture.
Set design is a collaborative artwork of the unprecedented scale. Glen MartensDiesel’s creative director, listed a global street art collector who spread to China, South Africa, the United States and beyond. Prior to the show, six mile empty white clothes were sent to both amateur and professional graffiti artists around the world. By the time it returned to gather to the show, the fabric was covered with spray-painted signature, mural images and abstract expressions, each individual contribution to each. While reflecting this process, Martens emphasized that the ‘true democracy of diesel’ was on performance.
Diesel reinforces an inflatable icon
Diesel Fall/An important element of Winter 2025 show The return of an iconic figure is – colloe inflatable dolls from the spring/summer 2023 runway of diesel. Originally used as a symbol BrandThe rebellious spirit, large -scale shape was revived and re -designed, this time as a canvas for the work of frescoes artists. designed by Studio Dennis VendorbrokeThe sculpture sculpture above the runway, its surface is now covered in lively, spontaneous graffiti. Now not a symbol, the doll turns into a huge artwork, which gives the show defined the collaborative energy. Its revaluation added a sense of continuity, but also an adventure development – once felt that it is now a celebration of the artistic community like a provocation.
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Globally collaborative work
With his fall/Winter 2025 show, Diesel did something unusual in high fashion, which is to give back the streets. The set celebrates road art with an unprecedented scale on an unprecedented scale. The graffiti is neither polished nor controlled – it is raw, unfolded and depth individual, yet shared by a collective of artists from all over the world. From bold tags to complex mural painting, the diversity of styles makes a patchwork of a commonly united sounds of expression, but a commonly united voice.
Diesel not just invited only one global audience to watch the show, inviting them to make it. The fabric was sent to artists from far locations as the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Japan and India, as Diesel broke the general boundaries of a fashion show. In this way, the set was created by thousands of people. As mentioned by Dennis Vendorbroke, the project is ‘celebration of artistry, community and inclusion’. It gives to the artists – whether iconic art from schools or grassroots – freedom to contribute. An industry was often defined by specificity, the show created a platform where the creative process was opened and shared.
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