The Graduate Show 2025 highlights the best work from final-year Fashion Design students, unveiling tomorrow’s visionary talents and embodying the culmination of an intensive developmental journey at Polimoda.
This year’s graduate show collections reflect this generation’s constant connection and symbiosis with the world around them. Identity acts as a fil rouge between all the collections. The students, at the beginning of their professional lives, strive to find a greater sense of self, and realization, through their art form. This occurs through various explorations; a spiritual association of the individual to the whims of nature experienced in extreme sports; colonial history that has shaped and continues to affect contemporary African religion and identity; control and freedom of the self through dystopian 20th century literature; artificial intelligence leading to a study of permanence and fragility of artificial and natural bodies; the evolving role of women in American society; a celebration of Samba music and the cultural space it holds, and much more.
Graduate Show 2025
June 16 · 5 PM CET · Stazione Leopolda, Florence
- 20 final-year collections
- 100 boundary-pushing looks
- 1 winner Best Collection 2025
- Selected by an elite jury of icons from fashion and culture
Designers
Polimoda’s global character is embodied by its diverse student designers who come from countries worldwide. While studying in one of fashion’s capitals certainly influences their perspective and creative process, each designer contributes their own distinctive vision.
Polimoda Graduate Show 2025, final review of the collections with the faculty
Polimoda Graduate Show 2025, final review of the collections with the faculty, ph. Marco Gualtieri
Polimoda Graduate Show 2025, final review of the collections with the faculty, ph. Marco Gualtieri
The Graduate Show 2025 offers a unique opportunity to witness fashion’s worldwide evolution through the fresh perspectives of talents whose journeys have ended up here at this significant moment.
The final 20 student designers participating in the show are:
- Elena Azeglio | @m.e.rak | Italy
- Veronica Bezzeccheri | @veronicabezzeccheri | Italy, Colombia
- Nansen Capici | @nansencapici_ | Italy
- Grigory Fedenko | @gregory_vid | Russia, Israel
- Chloe Geyer | @chloe_geyer | South Africa
- Naomi Guzman Duran | @_naominion_ | Mexico, Japan, Malaysia
- Leonardo Iori | @raccattami | Italy
- Derin Kemer | @derinkmr | Turkey
- Mandula Maczkó | @maczkomandula | Hungary
- Keila Melany Mirmina | @keimirmina | Argentina
- Filippo Montanini | @pippodinomee | Italy
- Sophia M. Ostervold | @sophia.marais.ostervold | USA, Norway
- Samuele Pampaloni | @pampalonisam | Italy
- Joseph Thomas Prince | @jt_prince | USA
- Eseniia Rybnikova | @rybnikova_eseniia | Russia
- Farnia Salim | @_farnia_s | Iran
- Sofia Sapena | @sofisapena | Paraguay
- Isabella Valdez | @_isab3lla___ | Peru
- Amina Vanneling | @aminavanneling | Sweden, Iran
- Huang Ying (Viktória) | @viktoria__lai | Hungary, China
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 M. Ostervold
Huang Ying (Viktória)
Keila Melany Mirmina
Mandula Maczkó
Isabella Valdez
Chloe Geyer
Runway pictures by Filippo Fior / GoRunway
Tim Blanks as Mentor
The Fashion Outsider
The Business of Fashion Editor-at-Large on the future of fashion journalism, corporate greed & his role mentoring Polimoda's graduating fashion design students.
Jury
An elite cross-industry jury—designers, critics, and cultural icons from fashion, film, music, and art—will crown the 2025 Best Collection at the Polimoda Graduate Show.
This year’s jury includes:
- Michèle Lamy – Artist, producer, performer, and Co-Founding Partner of Owenscorp
- Luc Tuymans – Visual Artist
- Tiziana Cardini – Fashion critic, VogueRunway, Vogue.com
- Marco Rambaldi – Creative Director
- Ahmad Daher – RTW Atelier Manager, Ferragamo
- Gena Marvin – Performance Artist
- Carla Arocha – Visual Artist
Credits
Creative Direction
Massimiliano Giornetti
Mentorship
Tim Blanks
Styling
Serge Girardi
Hair & Makeup
New Line Academy
Technical sponsors
- Lineapelle
- Shima Seiki Italia
Media partner
1 Granary
Livestream partner
Vogue Italia
Special thanks
- Richie Ye
- Tauras Žemaitis