Arthur Arbesser: Fall/Winter 2025-2026
Arthur Arbesser is embracing the future, presenting its collections in season, as it shifts to the direct-to-consumer model, which is now its main engine. Arthus Arbesser refuses to wait. The real liberation, however, began when the brand secured its new studio: an unapologetically raw, sprawling old car-repair and garage space.
Suddenly, it felt the freedom to literally do whatever the creatives at Arthur Arbesser want to do. Showroom at one end of the building, painting fabrics and making clothes on the other, then working on exhibitions with other kindred spirits at another? Everything is possible for Arthur Arbesser now.
The new Fall/Winter 2025-2026 collection reflects the feeling of liberty and autonomy. With the old, rigid fashion system finally collapsing, a brand like Arthur Arbesser has the glorious opportunity to think outside the box and play by its own rules.
The Art of the Archive
The collections are now smaller, more focused, and always include the intellectual edge of upcycled materials. For Fall/Winter 2025-2026, Arthur Arbesser resurrected a bold tobacco and black stripe roll from the famed Austrian mill, BACKHAUSEN, turning it into fluid trousers and a small, cheeky waistcoat. That’s not upcycling; it’s resurrection.
The move itself, a look back at over ten years of brand history, unearthed a treasure trove of long-forgotten and hidden gems. And this nostalgia is in the DNA of the new prints. One is a masterful composition of found buttons and curious objects, scanned individually and assembled on a stark black and yellow background to form a whole new entity. Another is a beautifully enlarged, blurred image of a repeated vintage button. Even the colored tapes used to seal moving boxes became the basis for a new, multicolored stripe print.
Silhouettes are defined by large stripes of fluid contrast colored wool crafted into essential, clean dresses, with skirt hemlines that are irregular or pointy for a theatrical feel. Trousers are skinny with a flare or a strong, unisex straight leg, and the shirts remain printed, airy, and oversized. It’s effortless power dressing.
Establishing a New Order
And yes, the Fall/Winter 2025-2026 collection was designed to slay alongside the capsule created for HANRO. The rich autumnal colors and two key patterns (checkerboard and Vichy) of that 15-piece offering mix flawlessly with this latest collection.
The imagery for this season’s lookbook was split between two photographers: Henrik Blomqvist captured Maria di Benedetto in artful, colorful scenes; while Giulia Fassina took a group of our creative friends from Milan, hanging free but a little pensively around our studio.
Arthur Arbesser intends to flood the world with colors and prints. Because darling, we simply can’t allow the world to turn into one big, identical, neutral-toned place.
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