Threads Of Time

By Editorial Team

Heritage meets haute couture — discover the luxury labels redefining tradition with their 2025 collections.

In a world of fast-moving aesthetics, some of the most compelling design work reaches back: into family roots, national pride, historical silhouettes, and traditional craft. These luxury labels draw power from heritage, turning collective memory into modern masterpieces.

TANGAN Privé
Jakarta’s TANGAN Privé delivered a sensorial masterpiece by deconstructing the traditional kebaya through minimalist tailoring, pleated drapes, and hand-beaded details. Set within a sculptural installation, this 2025 collection transformed heritage textiles into contemporary architectural forms, blending memory and elegance seamlessly.

Dolce & Gabbana
Held in Rome’s Castel Sant’Angelo, this Alta Sartoria 2025 show reimagines ecclesiastical attire as couture. The collection pays tribute to centuries of liturgical splendour, channeling the aesthetics of Renaissance paintings, papal vestments, and Catholic ceremony. In true D&G fashion, the divine becomes deeply desirable.

Sacoor Brothers
Its Spring/Summer 2025 collection, Chapter One: Lisbon – Back to Our Roots, draws deep inspiration from its Portuguese heritage and the company’s origins in Lisbon. With a soft palette inspired by Lisbon’s golden-hour tones and subtle nods to traditional Portuguese azulejos in embroidery, the result is quietly elegant menswear with a personal, cultural heart.

Imane Ayissi
Cameroonian designer, Imane Ayissi, brings his homeland’s textile heritage to Paris’s haute couture runway, a fusion that is natural, as both share a commitment to handcraftsmanship and ornamentation. By reimagining traditional fabrics like kente and raffia, Ayissi celebrates heritage with an assertion of a bold, modern identity.

Maje
Celebrating the romantic essence of the Qixi Festival, a festival celebrating the annual meeting of Zhinü and Niulang in Chinese mythology, Maje’s FW25 capsule marries Parisian sensibility with Asian romanticism. The collection juxtaposes bold black with soft pink, tulle, lace, and floral embroidery—coloring tradition with cross-cultural elegance.

NAMESAKE
With a deeply personal collection called OFFSHORE, NAMESAKE’s SS25 explores the Hsieh brothers’ family background and diaspora life. A journey through cultural roots and contemporary identity, this collection weaves together tributes to their fishery roots, Buddhist spirituality, and their father’s basketball legacy.

Thom Browne
Thom Browne’s autumn collection this year feels like tradition reframed through modern storytelling. He transformed his runway into a sculptural landscape of tradition with Japanese origami cranes and theatrical tailoring. Oversized silhouettes and artisanal embroidery nest patterns of hope and continuity.