Trussardi has unveiled its new face. The Italian label, acquired by Italian textile group Miroglio in March 2024, is turning over a new leaf with a first collection of evergreen clothes and accessories characterised by a sleek, elegant and functional style, inspired by the label’s archives and designed by a collective of diverse creative talents. Trussardi’s goal is to reposition itself in the more accessible progressive luxury segment, featuring contemporary luxury collections at “more democratic prices.”
A Trussardi womenswear look for Fall/Winter 2025-26 – Trussardi
Trussardi’s vast Fall/Winter 2025-26 men’s and women’s collection was recently presented at the label’s Milanese showroom. They consist of some 700 items, including 250 accessories, with pride of place going to leather clothes and accessories, historically the core of the Bergamo-based label’s output — Trussardi was founded in 1911 as a glove shop — but also including denim and sportswear.
Jeans are priced between €140 and €240, leather jackets at around €500, and leather goods and handbags from €250 to €500. The first sales campaign, which was recently completed, focused on Italy and Europe. The collection was marketed by about 15 agents, and has been bought by department stores like La Rinascente, and several multibrand retailers in the premium segment, notably in Eastern and Southern Europe. Trussardi, which is set to launch its e-shop in June, is also negotiating the opening of a number of stores internationally.
Soft leather is used to fashion tops, skirts, bomber jackets and handbags, while Trussardi’s iconic safari jackets feature in contemporary suede versions. The collection also includes a striking top-and-trousers set in denim-look suede.
“We have developed various models of leather gloves, to emphasise the connection with the label’s roots, and found inspiration for many other items in our archives. It’s an everyday wardrobe that we have created by also looking carefully at the way people dress in the street,” said Cosimo Dorato, Trussardi’s head of design and products, talking to FashionNetwork.com. Dorato oversees the collective efforts of 30 talented professionals, between designers, garment-makers, photographers and more, both in-house staff and external consultants.
The denim-effect ensemble in suede – Trussardi
To write Trussardi’s new chapter, the Miroglio group, which owns, among others, the Elena Mirò, Oltre, Motivi and Fiorella Rubino labels, decided to move away from the runway show format, and from the ritual of naming a creative director. The idea was to create a community around the label’s design collective, which has styled itself as ‘Gentle Society’. This slogan-manifesto is printed on a series of knitwear and sweaters alongside the label’s signature greyhound, which no longer features alone on the logo but is playfully entwined with another greyhound.
“We’re working on the concept of subtraction in a ‘less is more’ spirit, focusing on clean, timeless looks and lines, paying great attention to functionality, while at the same time infusing a delicately playful touch by means of little messages and hidden elements,” said Dorato, who has worked for seven years as a design executive for the Oakley eyewear label, after previous stints as head of Yoox’s own brand, and in product development at Alexander McQueen.
The collection’s tongue-in-cheek approach is evident in the key holder integrated into a jacket’s pocket, while some handbags’ shoulder straps have a dual use, the backpack, ergonomic and made in breathable material, is equipped with all kinds of pockets, and a top has straps so that it can be worn on the shoulders without actually putting it on.
Among the discreet details cropping up unexpectedly, inscriptions that are legible only when illuminated, and micro-patterns in the shape of a pair of gloves or a walking stick, surreptitiously printed between the stripes of a very classic shirt.
These are some of the graphic elements drawn from Trussardi’s vast archives, which have been transferred from Bergamo to Alba in Piedmont, where Miroglio is based. They include over 60,000 items, all the ready-to-wear and accessories developed in recent decades, from experimental items designed by Nicola Trussardi, who relaunched the label in the 1970s transforming it into a global brand, to items created, among others, by Milan Vukmirovic and Trussardi’s latest designers, Serhat Işık and Benjamin A Huseby. Plus of course all the lifestyle accessories.
The new collection at Trussardi’s Milanese showroom – ph DM
The strategy is for Trussardi to relaunch softly, introducing easy-to-wear products that are very much of their time, made in Europe and Asia in order to maintain an affordable price positioning. The relaunch will go hand in hand with a rather unusual communication strategy, chiefly focusing on events and activations in ad hoc venues and occasions.
For example, the spate of initiatives that will enliven the Trussardi furniture line’s showroom during Milan Design Week on April 7-13, which will morph for the occasion into ‘Casa Trussardi Gentle Society’, opening to the public and hosting workshops, shows, brunches and even a bike race during the week.
Trussardi, whose business has been growing mostly through licenses (childrenswear, beachwear, furniture, wallpaper, eyewear, perfumes, jewellery and watches), is above all keen to tell its story through its lifestyle range, the signature world that Trussardi built over the years, peaking in the 1970s and 80s. As demonstrated by the collection’s presentation, where countless accessories from the archives, such as bicycles, trunks, suitcases and a variety of handbags, including one with a racket pocket, blended elegantly with the showroom’s décor, sitting nicely alongside the clothes.
From Warsaw, with love. That could have been the footnotes for the Polish brand Magda Butrym and Swedish behemoth H&M‘s celebration of their collaboration, which is set to debut on April 24.
Magda Butrym and VIP guests at H&M’s rose-themed celebration in Brooklyn. – Photo credit: Lucas Possiede / H&M
The celebration took place in an architecturally stunning former bank reminiscent of European spaces and was attended by a mainly female crowd with VIP guests such as Chloë Sevigny, Iris Law, Irina Shayk, and German influencer and model Nara Smith. It featured performances by Charlotte Lawrence and Kelela.
FashionNetwork.com caught up with the designer and H&M’s creative advisor, Ann-Sofie Johansson, to discuss this latest pair-up.
Ann-Sofie Johansson and Magda Butrym at H&M’s collaboration event in Brooklyn. – Photo credit: BFA / H&M
“She’s brilliant and the first Polish designer we’ve collaborated with. It’s great to find talent all over the world, outside of the four fashion cities, and show their creativity,” Johansson said in between photos of VIP guests. “It’s also nice to pick someone that might not be known outside of the fashion industry, and she is also a woman owning and operating an independent brand. Her designs are beautiful and feminine, and our customers will love them,” she added.
Despite collaborating with designer brands for over 20 years, the Swedish retailer still finds each unique. “With Magda, it was quite intimate because she has a small team of designers and pattern makers. Our first meeting was in Warsaw; our team had never been there. So, it was nice to see her within her city and vibe,” she added.
Seeing her in her element influenced the event, as did serendipitous logistics as Butrym headed to New York for her project. “It all came together here, and New York is New York. Everyone wants to come here to experience all the energy here, including all the people,” Johansson continued.
Despite being in New York City, the Swedes and Butrym gave the event a magical fantasy vibe. As guests entered the landmark 1929 Byzantine-Romanesque-style former Williamsburgh Savings Bank located in Fort Greene, Brooklyn—with its cavernous 60-foot vaulted ceilings, arched windows, mosaic floors, tinted glass windows, and a 17-year-old Polish opera prodigy from Chicago singing from the balcony—it was easy to mistake the space for a church. The room was bathed in pink lights and adorned with fresh rose sculptures, and the furniture was draped with white fabrics. As a centerpiece and nod to Butrym’s signature rose was a massive pink fabric sculpture resembling a rose that hung from the ceiling.
Ann-Sofie Johansson, H&M’s creative advisor, at the rose-filled venue in Brooklyn. – Photo credit: BFA / H&M
“Each event has to reflect the designer,” Johansson said of the ambiance. “We want to enter the designer’s universe, their world. The rose, for example, is one of Magda’s signatures. So, what she wants that can ‘rhyme’ with H&M is what we stand for. In her case, it’s about beauty, and we need some beauty right now,” she added.
For Butrym, the past week spent in New York—with husband and child in tow—has been a bit surreal and busy, as she just opened a Magda Butrym pop-up store in SoHo, marking her second retail venture, as she opened a flagship store in Warsaw last year.
“When we drove over the Brooklyn Bridge to get here tonight, it hit me, and I still don’t believe it even now that I’m saying it. It’s overwhelming,” Butrym said, describing her awe of being in the Big Apple for such important brand moments. “The pop-up is so adorable; it’s all done in crochet and really romantic,” she added.
According to the designer, the Swedish team at H&M made things seamless. “They sent us a document of their thoughts about the brand and what they love. Since I am making a new collection every three months, it was really helpful because I didn’t have time to go back to the archives,” Butrym said as her guests posed for photos in front of the giant rose and sipped pink cocktails and champagne.
“It was a great exercise for me and my team because when you do the main collection, you are constantly pushing the thing. It was revisiting these styles and imagining them differently. So, let’s show the flower in a different way or a different style in a new shape. This was adapting it to something else, thinking, what would people love to have? The clients see my designs on celebrities; now they will have this part of my world. This project was a pleasure for me,” she added.
The collection includes a sexy, clingy red dress with rosettes on the bust worn by Law and another rouge style worn by Smith, recalling a bouquet of roses. Shayk wore sharp black tailoring, while Gray wore a black jersey top with a sculptural flower detail at the neck and a matching long-line skirt. Valentina Sampaio wore the collection’s striking burgundy leather trench, and Sevigny wore a stretch mini dress with the collection’s iconic rose print.
Butrym was also thrilled about bringing the opera singer to share some Polish culture. “She was singing in Polish, so it’s very important to me. You hear Polish songs. It’s amazing that this little country has a moment here in Brooklyn,” she reflected.
With the return of Stockholm Fashion Week, it would seem fitting that the designer shows there, but Johansson doesn’t imagine that happening. “She’s on the official Paris schedule and has shown there for the first time. That is a big thing, so I am sure Magda will continue with that,” Johansson said. In any case, while it sounds like she will stick with her European allies for her new collection debuts, thanks to Sweden, the rest of the world will have a chance to discover Butrym’s oeuvre.
Bigger and better continues to be the theme among major retailers and Primark’s expanded new space at the White Rose Shopping Centre in Leeds is being billed as “significant” by landlord Landsec.
Photo, Sandra Halliday
Expected to be complete in 2027, the doubling of Primark’s Rose White footprint (from 26,200 sq ft to 55,700 sq ft) “comes as many brands continue to prioritise better and bigger stores at the best-located and highest-footfall destinations across the UK”, noted Landsec.
And it’s the latest of a series of flagship brand investments at White Rose, with Primark’s expansion following JD Sports tripling its space last year with a new 15,537 sq ft store.
“This expansion and growing breadth of new retail, food, beverage and leisure experiences has contributed to Landsec reporting record-breaking footfall for the second consecutive year at White Rose Shopping Centre”, the operator said, noting that over 12 million people visited the destination in the last year, a year-on-year increase of 4.3%.
Landsec also said its retail portfolio “continues to demonstrate strong performance with occupancy now exceeding pre-pandemic levels at 96% and regularly outperforming industry footfall benchmarks”.
Primark has also begun expanding the ‘lifestyle’ aspect of its retail offer, announcing the opening of its first-ever standalone ‘Primark Home’ store in Northern Ireland in March. Spanning around 8,700 sq ft. Primark calls it an “exciting new venture marking a significant milestone”.
JD Williams and Gok Wan have launched an ‘Empowering SS25 Collection’ accompanied by a strong campaign targeting women in midlife.
That campaign, ‘We See You’, launches after a survey revealed 60% of women “feel invisible in midlife… especially while shopping for clothes or in social situations with younger generations”.
And the retailer and stylist add: “Midlife isn’t about slowing down or feeling apologetic for wanting to be seen – it’s about embracing a new chapter full of confidence, adventure, and self-assurance”.
Developed using insight “from hours of customer research, the campaign is a new, more confident expression of the brand’s midlife specialism”.
The campaign “aims to shatter outdated stereotypes” and “celebrates the rebellious spirit, energy, and effortless style of midlife women, empowered, stylish, and unapologetically themselves”.
“Redefining the midlife dress code”, the collection features “vibrant swimwear, effortlessly chic tailoring, and stylish yet comfortable dresses” with options for every occasion”
It will drop throughout April, May and June on jdwilliams.co.uk in sizes 8-32 and starting from £18 in price.
Esme Stone, head of Brand at JD Williams said: “For too long, midlife women have been overlooked by fashion brands and misrepresented by society. It’s time to flip the script.
“Midlife isn’t about slowing down or feeling apologetic for wanting to feel seen – it’s about embracing a new chapter full of confidence, adventure, and self-assurance. Our ‘We See You’ campaign is about celebrating and empowering women who are rewriting the rules and embracing this vibrant life stage with unapologetic style and strength.
Stone added: “Every piece has been curated to empower women to dress with confidence, embrace bold colours, and make a statement wherever they go.”