Magliano unveils Fall/Winter collection

Luca Magliano, the Italian designer, staged a high-impact show in Florence, unveiling a rich, sophisticated Fall/Winter 2024-25 collection.

Many of the styles in the collection were for ladies, which Luca Magliano had begun to present a few seasons prior. He said. “We need to look up to women for their style, their elegance. I think that classic style is synonymous with a kind of hyper-femininity which can also be turned the other way around. My women wear suits over a flattened bust. The contemporary body cannot be binary. Gender is a landscape, a journey, within which different identities have needs they must be able to express through fashion.”

From its inception, the Magliano label developed around two central themes: body and gender identity issues, and popular culture. Luca Magliano remarked that “beauty is an anti-fascist word,” adding that “we’ve adopted a type of elegance as our benchmark,” the elegance of the disenfranchised. “This is the social and political aspect of what we’re doing,” said the designer, who has reinterpreted classic menswear staples with great care and a genuine passion for Italian tailoring expertise.

Proofs of this are the new collaborations he unveiled at the show, with two Italian style icons: tailored jackets typical of the Neapolitan sartorial tradition, hand-made by Kiton, and five models of Borsalino hats, refashioned as jolly, pointed party headgear. “It’s a kind of cute trick,” said Luca Magliano.