“She is complicated, powerful and mysterious in her very own way," says Gestuz's creative director of this season's powerful main character and muse
‘Dear C, I saw you brought me roses and left them at my door. Please don’t. I can buy my own.’ The words appear slowly, typed out in a mesmerising projection across the lofty walls of Nikolaj Kunsthal. The mystery author? The Gestuz muse, penning a love letter to the person she left behind. “I was intrigued by the thought of diving into this very universal experience that is raw and emotional, but also often something that brings a power and evolution to us as humans,” notes creative director Sanne Sehested of this season’s storytelling.
It’s a continuation of the femme fatale main character that Gestuz has centred throughout its recent collections as it carves out its brand of dark and dynamic femininity, one that is distinct from its Danish womenswear peers. This time, for autumn/winter ‘25, she’s a broken-hearted bad-ass. “She is complicated, powerful and mysterious in her very own way. She is 22 and 52 and everything in between,” Sehested explains. It resonates in full force as the convoy of models step out. There’s a delicate balance at play between delicate lace and heavy leather, chunky knits and fitted suits. There’s the sultry dress she’s bought post break-up, worn under the biker jacket that he left behind. “It’s a very literal use of the menswear wardrobe merged with the female wardrobe to represent the merging of two lives and two wardrobes, and how we – even after a breakup – are changed by the people we have in our lives,” Sehested says.
Prints are a Gestuz strong point, and take a more mature turn this season. In the sea of deep reds, greens and browns, a blurred-out floral captures the dark romantic spirit – while roses become a motif in silk burn-out patterns, knitwear and stamped on the back of boxy outerwear. Sehested closes with a bang, sending out a sheer beaded knock-out of a gown, with a draped chandelier-like hemline, that her team dub the Princess Di-style ‘revenge dress’.
See the full Gestuz autumn/winter ‘25 collection below.
