If ever there were a collection to understand the modern woman, it is Max Mara Fall/Winter ’25. The Milan Fashion Week show drew inspiration from the romantic works of the Brontë sisters to explore the duality and contrasts of the Untamed Heroine, after which the collection was aptly named.
The strict composure and elegance of sophisticated tailoring—a signature of the brand, always—is tempered by a romanticism that threatens to overwhelm one with passion and desire.
With reference to the protagonists of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, the collection seeks to find the intersect where passion collides with sharp composure.
“She reads about a tempestuous love as powerful as the shrieking winds that sweep across that bleak, elemental landscape,” the show notes read. “Though she’s more likely to be stalking the corridors of power in a smartly tailored suit than wandering through the heather and gorse in a nightgown, her new romantic mood calls for a new romantic style.”
Redingotes, common to the late 18th and early 19th century, were remoulded for the modern heroine with leather and shearling details, while soft pleating and broad waisted trousers were reminiscent of antique britches.
Outerwear was undoubtedly the protagonist of the collection; greatcoats with military overtones, squire-like frock coats, parkas-de-luxe, capes, enveloping clutch coats and robes-de-chambre paraded the catwalk, many cinched by double-wrapped belts, perhaps as a reminder of the romantic tempest simmering away under the surface.
Textiles and tones emphasised themes of untamed passion and romance from cashmeres and tweeds in berry reds, mossy greens and autumnal brackens to Cascia, a colour exclusive to Max Mara reflected in the stones and sky of the Brontës’ native Yorkshire.
See the full Max Mara Fall/Winter ’25 collection below.
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