Twenty designers. One hundred looks. A runway staged inside Florence’s Stazione Leopolda, pulsing with story, memory, and experimentation. The Polimoda Graduate Show 2025 brought together a global class of designers to present collections that were less about trend, more about truth—garments that acted as self-portraits, cultural reflections, and emotional excavations.
This year’s theme—a journey into the purest form of creativity—was anything but abstract. It showed up in everything from sculptural urban armor to folkloric nostalgia, from disco-drenched hedonism to dystopian tailoring. Naomi Guzman Doran blended Japanese and Mexican coming-of-age rituals in a nuanced expression of bicultural identity; Keila Melany Mirmina turned Argentina’s class struggle into fashion’s own cinematic rebellion; Grigory Fedenko explored corruption and power through industrial symbolism; while Chloe Geyer brought childhood forest memories into soft, romantic form.
Each collection, created in Polimoda’s Manifattura Campus workshops and guided by figures like Massimiliano Giornetti and Tim Blanks, reflected a designer at the edge of professional maturity—and personal clarity. If this was a debut, it was also a declaration. These weren’t reinterpretations of fashion’s past, they were confrontations with the present, and provocations for what comes next. Nansen Capici was awarded Best Collection by a jury that included Michèle Lamy and Marco Rambaldi, recognizing a body of work that stood out for its introspection and clarity of vision.
See all twenty graduate collections from Polimoda’s class of 2025 below.
Nansen Capici
Amina Vanneling
Samuele Pampaloni
Sofia Sapena
Joseph Thomas Prince
Veronica Bezzeccheri
Naomi Guzman Duran
Farnia Salim
Derin Kemer
Grigory Fedenko
Eseniia Rybnikova
Leonardo Iori
Elena Azeglio
Filippo Montanini
Sophia Marais Ostervold
Huang Ying
Keila Melany Mirmina
Mandula Maczkó
Isabella Valdez
Chloe Geyer
