Fashion Dive received a press statement from designer Giorgio Armani announcing his spring-summer 2025 womenswear collection on October 17 in New York. The designer hasn't had a runway show in the city for almost ten years, reported Fashion Dive.
The event has been rescheduled to coincide with the opening of the designer's new building on Madison Avenue in New York, rather than its original location in Milan, home of the house's headquarters.
According to a company Instagram post, the recently inaugurated area will be "entirely redesigned to include residential units, Armani/Ristorante and the new Giorgio Armani and Armani/ Casa boutiques."
According to the press release, "the designer, pragmatic and conscientious, has decided to concentrate celebration of this important new opening and his return, after eleven years, to New York into a single event."
The statement states that the venue change is just temporary and that the label's fall-winter 2025 collection will make a reappearance at Milan Fashion Week in February.
In the meantime, a number of designers have chosen lately to forgo customary venues and present in cities other than their customary home bases.
After a four-year hiatus, designer Ralph Lauren made a triumphant return to New York Fashion Week last year. However, he then withdrew once more and unveiled his Spring 2025 Purple Label collection in Milan in June.
The premium brand Jacquemus debuted a 15th anniversary Cruise 2025 collection in Capri, while Paris-based Balenciaga debuted their spring Resort 2025 collection in Shanghai in May.
The global fashion calendar will change starting in 2025 to align with the international fashion timetable when firms deviate from predetermined timelines. The British Fashion Council, Federation de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, and the Council of Fashion Designers of America collaborated to achieve this.
The 2024 runway show dates will not change from their original timetable. But starting in 2025, Pitti Uomo will take place from January 14 to January 17, about a week later than normal. Right after, starting on January 17, is Milan Men's Fashion Week. Subsequent fashion weeks will come one after the other, leading up to Paris Fashion Week, which takes place from March 3 to 11.
The British Fashion Council stated in a June news release that "the councils have met to set agreements on the start and end dates of each fashion week in order to avoid overlaps and create synchrony for the fashion calendar." "The decision aims to benefit both the on-schedule designers and the trade audience traveling between the cities, and it follows ongoing discussions between the organizations."