General Concept: Fall Winter 2025
Structurally, the footwear designs for the season adhere to basic principles of functionality: protection, warmth, and comfort. From this foundation, a wide range of boots and booties emerges, inspired by various styles: retro, outdoor, cowboy, biker, sporty, and hybrid options. Heel heights focus on flat and medium models.
On the other hand, there has been a notable increase in the presence of ballerina flats, Mary Janes, and moccasins, which, aesthetically renewed, are gaining popularity due to their comfort and functionality. Generally, designs are more streamlined and minimalist, with an emphasis on harmony between shapes and volumes rather than details.
Sneakers continue to undergo constant development of new models to meet growing demand. Preferences are shared by those with cupsoles, chunky styles with complex uppers and sturdy soles, and tech sneakers designed specifically for sports. In branded sports sneakers, there is a revival of vintage models with a modern twist. In women's high-heeled shoes, heels are gradually replacing platforms.
Thanks to technological advancements and creativity, materials are playing a more prominent role in footwear and manufactured goods. Leather, textiles, and synthetics are becoming thicker for warmth, while numerous processes such as embossing and printing create a wide variety of textures. Matte finishes -suede, nubuck, and fabrics- dominate over aged metallic sheens. In smooth leather, natural grains are highlighted, and textile textures are adopted. The presence of furs, skins, and sheep wool is significant in defining designs. Color applications bring these materials to life, including new animal prints. The textile selection includes corduroy, velvets, bouclés, gabardines, canvas, tweeds, flannels, mesh knitted fabrics, and technical fabrics like ripstop. Denim is expanding considerably, with new finishes, colors, and prints. There are also options in foamed materials, quilted fabrics, and embroidery. The combination of old and rustic fabrics with smooth materials is common. Graphic motifs such as plaids, herringbone, multicolored weaves, Pied de Poule, stripes, ethnic patterns, geometrics, and soft florals are frequent.
For the extensive range of boots, booties, and moccasins, classic soles with separate or suggested heels, ample volume, and track or serrated profiles dominate, featuring double welts with contrasts and outsoles differentiated by colors.
In other injected products, side moldings with curved reliefs and vertical grooves appear. The cowboy or Cuban heel is frequently seen in these models. Ballerina flats and similar styles feature very simple, thin soles, with or without heels. For casual shoes and sneakers, there are numerous options for cupsoles of different heights and moldings. For chunky or fashion styles, larger volume soles with sculpted designs, in wedge form, are offered. The trend favors a wider availability of colors in soles, with creative contrasts between the upper and sole, except for monochrome versions. The long-standing popularity of the outdoor style drives demand for more technical soles with combined materials such as EVA/rubber, EVA/TPU, etc. Women's heels favor medium heights, in streamlined and semi-cylindrical shapes.
The color palette decisively champions the timelessness of colors, blurring the line between winter and summer tones. Everything aligns with the aesthetic and functional needs of the products. However, the essence of color reflects a dynamic that responds to social issues, constantly evolving. For this season, the pursuit of the natural, tranquility, and optimism brings forth the beige-brown tandem, which, with hints of reds and yellows, is presented as warm, safe, and friendly. Tomato cream, mustard, rust, terracotta, honey, and red deer are some of them. Alongside them, a neutral range of medium blues and greens, calm and sophisticated, such as Aegean blue and quartz green, emerge. Red, scarlet and carmine, are presented as energetic and passionate, while blue shift them into deep, refined purples, such as Italian plum and gloxinia. These colors also offer countless combinations, enriched by the use of saturated basics.
