Wales Bonner Captures a Portrait of the Artist for Fall 2025
- Grace Wales Bonner is celebrating a decade in business with a runway show in Paris in June, drawing inspiration from artist Theaster Gates and vintage Ebony and Jet magazines for her fall collection.
It's a milestone year for Grace Wales Bonner , who's marking a decade in business and plans to stage a celebratory runway show in Paris in June. For fall, though, she's kept things low-key, with showroom appointments — but that doesn't meant the collection is any less rich.
She described the collection as "a romantic vision of the artist at work," and drew inspiration from a real artist, the Chicago-based Theaster Gates , in addition to mining his extensive archive of vintage Ebony and Jet magazines for her cool photographic prints.
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She worked once again with the Savile Row tailor Anderson & Sheppard , and with Crombie , the storied British menswear brand best known for its elegant wool topcoats. She even added dashes of bright color — such as sizzling pink — from her Adidas Originals collection.
The designer mixed utilitarian and soft-edged looks to great effect, adding a fluffy white shearling collar to a tough black bomber jacket, and satin lapels to a melton wool peacoat. In a signature move, she slipped a cotton lace T-shirt under a traditional navy coat with satin details.
There were artier pieces, too, including a draped, textured satin and viscose shirt adorned with a magazine cover portrait. Another shirt, overdyed in an intense shade of indigo, bore the same image of a lovely '60s-era model, in a repeating pattern. The pink T-shirt from the Adidas collection rounded out the collection's rich color palette.
Footwear — for both men and women — also had an arty bent. There were flat, patent leather studded boots and mary jane sneakers done in Neoprene and suede with a gold leather strap. It was beautiful — and sensible — footwear for all those artists who spend long hours on their feet, running creative marathons.
Launch Gallery: Wales Bonner Men's Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
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