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.
These final collections provide a kaleidoscope of visions that create a network of ideas, issues and themes that are fundamental for understanding the direction of fashion today.
Save the date
- June 16, 5pm
- Florence
- 20 graduate collections
- 100 boundary-pushing looks
- 1 winner of the Best Collection 2025 award
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.
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.
Previous shows
Art Thou
Santa Maria Novella
June 2021
Carpe Noctem
Giardino Torrigiani
June 2022
Anthos
Manifattura Tabacchi
June 2023
SHO-KA
Villa Palmieri
June 2024
Jury
An elite cross-industry jury—designers, critics, and cultural icons from fashion, film, music, and art—will crown the 2025 Best Collection. In recent editions, the panel has included prominent figures such as Stefano Pilati, David Koma, Francesca Ragazzi, Suzy Menkes, and Ramona Tabita.
Stay tuned to find out who will join the jury this year.
Credits
Creative Direction
Massimiliano Giornetti
Mentorship
Tim Blanks
Styling
Serge Girardi
Hair & Makeup
New Line Academy
Technical sponsors
- Lineapelle
- Shima Seiki Italia