Designer Giorgio Armani will present his spring-summer 2025 womenswear collection on Oct. 17 in New York, according to a press release sent to Fashion Dive. It will be the designer’s first runway show in the city in more than a decade.
The show was originally scheduled in Milan, where the house’s headquarters are based, but has been moved to coincide with the opening of the designer’s new building on Madison Avenue in New York.
The newly opened space will be “entirely redesigned to include residential units, Armani/Ristorante and the new Giorgio Armani and Armani/ Casa boutiques,” according to a post from the brand on Instagram.
“Pragmatic and conscientious, the designer has decided to concentrate celebration of this important new opening and his return, after eleven years, to New York into a single event,” the press release stated.
The venue change is temporary, however, and the label’s fall-winter 2025 collection will return to Milan Fashion Week in February, per the release.
Meanwhile, several designers have recently made the decision to eschew traditional locations and show in cities outside their traditional home bases.
Designer Ralph Lauren returned to New York Fashion Week last year following a four-year absence, only to leave again and show his Spring 2025 Purple Label collection in Milan in June.
Paris-based luxury house Balenciaga showed its spring Resort 2025 collection in Shanghai in May, and Jacquemus presented a 15th anniversary Cruise 2025 collection in Capri.
As brands veer away from established schedules, the global fashion calendar will shift beginning in 2025 to coordinate the international fashion schedule. This was due to a joint effort by the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the British Fashion Council, Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana and Federation de la Haute Couture et de la Mode.
Dates for 2024 runway shows will remain the same as previously scheduled. However, beginning in 2025, Pitti Uomo will start approximately one week later than usual, running from Jan. 14 to 17. Milan Men’s Fashion Week will take place directly after, beginning on Jan. 17, with subsequent fashion weeks following and culminating with Paris Fashion Week, which will run from March 3 to 11.
“In order to avoid overlaps and create synchrony for the fashion calendar, the councils have met to set agreements on the start and end dates of each fashion week,” the British Fashion Council said in a June press release. “The decision, which follows ongoing discussions between the organisations, aims to benefit the trade audience travelling between the cities as well as the on-schedule designers.”
