Informa Markets Fashion is spring/ summer 2025 for new era in material sourcing trends

In Taylor Swift We Trust

Almost one month into the new year of 2024, and you know all too well by now that we’re in a brand-new era, the time where Gen Z is still a work in progress in leaving their mark without limitations, and the biggest welcoming of Gen ALPHA, albeit just 14-years-old or millennial children, this post-Gen Z population will not only reinstate millennial fashion trends, but will be part of a new era where quality wins out over fast fashion, goods are once again produced here in the United States, sources and raw materials are eco-friendly, carbon footprints are eliminated, and AI (artificial intelligence) produces real time trends report where long-term forecasting is extinct; all making it possible for Informa Markets and Fashion Snoops to look ahead to spring and summer 2025 where we finally see fashion be more responsive and instantaneous with what’s trending on both men and women’s fashion, and the sourcing materials next SS25 broken down to be Honest, Convergence, Devotion, and Movement.

HONEST

Telling the truth is just not enough, it’s about experiencing beauty that’s found in nature, unplugging from the rest of the world to reset with what matters most, seeing raw materials for what they really are, and making the choice to slow fashion down to just quality essentials for your life, not needing too much to be beautiful; conscious luxury is not fast by all means, it’s luxury living up to its name with high quality products and values, safety in sincerity are designs that are wholesome, vulnerable, raw, and authentic in digital culture; colors include open water, aged beige, glazed cherry, and weathered indigo.

Materials include slubbed & mouline shirtings of broadcloth fabrics for knits and cooling aspects, sustainable cactus & agave cropped leathers that are apparently plant-based and cleaner aesthetics for items such as jackets, skirts, and handbags, faded denims deemed as sandy & soft plus cottonized hemp which all potentially absorbing knit offerings; surfaces involve crafts with modern aesthetics, sustainable alternatives to metals and plastics include sustainable fabric closures for button-down shirts, ocean recovered detailing also are viable closing materials to make buttons, dobby motifs form subtle patterns, and restricted & basket woven can be incorporated with stiff leather raffia fibers to create stitch compositions.

CONVERGENCE

There’s a tug-a-war going on in the upcoming SS 25 fashion cycle, weeding out the difference between what’s real and what’s A.I., this is convergence, a crossroads for the fashion industry to seek out nature as well as the mystical, going into universes that have yet to be discovered, even if it’s the realness of nature and human beings turning into a digital fantasy experience, eco-curious is one aspect where we dive into bio-engineered products like way streams and lab-grown dyes while we understand nature for its gifts and perils, (a)irl are A.I. tools to redefine fashion for a chance at creative exploration where it blurs the lines between artificial and real; colors for these crossroads include sulphur, lava, blazed brown, black, and voltage.

Materials sourced out of plant life and sea life include the leafy option of otherworldly ribs found on natural greens, seaweed based yarns confirmed and perfected out of labs, recycled vegan leather alternatives generally offered on apparel and accessories found on original animal leather, and recycled ocean waste collected to create cool and crisp options like swimwear naturally connecting to sea life plus activewear; surfaces are bio-based sequins which were made to be illuminated, psychedelic digital prints for hyper-physical product outcomes, air-filled protection used as cushioning for footwear, and chromatic weafs to heighten the rugged look that’s denim into a high-definition experience.

DEVOTION

It’s important to emphasize the origins of where we come from, showing Devotion to our heritage of ethnicity, originality, and authenticity, this category celebrates heritage in a whole new modern way, showing off the artistry of the designer while finding ways to increase the longevity of our fabrics as we utilize up-cycling, expect rebellious irreverence to take place as brand take a stand on sociopolitical issues, and trend agnostic that adopt defiance in preconceived notions of gender, age, and season in order to perceive longer and discover yourself more, color of hopeless devotion include washed black, delicate, auburn, egg yolk, scruffed lemon, and burnt ochre.

Devoted materials include the use of lost skills and techniques celebrating a spirit of creativity with rusticity and sustainability all found in wild weaves, recovered metals perfect for closures and accessories, patchworked deadstock restored for new material hybrids, and heirloom crochet to inspire lace and knits; surfaces involve honoring the marks of their making that embraces imperfections with odd metalwork undergoing fiery transformation through welding to reshape trims, crafted repairs using lace embroidery to creatively repair holes in denim, archived screen prints that explain stories of her past with stretchy marking, and slow ties & stitches for leather refinishing.

MOVEMENT

There’s only one original form and base of exercise that connects our body, involving cleats, stretch, lightweight layerings, and sparking a trends to go viral on social media, it’s dance, one could say ballet is the starting point of all dance forms, but this sourcing aesthetic is called movement, being human can also be inspired by A.I. and tech driven optimization for quality comforts, healing through dance allows you to reconnect to your mind, body, and spirit, movement colors speak the world of dance where fabrics and stretch say they’re barely there with voltage, breezy blue, drizzle, purple tonic, hyper blush, bon bon, and pirouette.

Materials are based on wellness, improving the overall quality of your health, but wellness items need to be utilized with a connection to our body in space age ways stemming from digital flexibility which include low impact & bio-based resins, multiway flex units, gauzy & effervescent sheers, and floating & gathered layers all aligning with closure and stretch; surfaces plays on touch with essential oil infusions for intimates as activewear and lingerie are getting a comfort and technical reimagining, footwear and body cooling also are key essential to dance and exercise as you can see with free flowing dyes, plush & spongy touch, cool touch surface finishes, and digitally printed grip, connecting to our body not only improves our joints, but also improves our libido, famously found in activewear and intimates.

Yes, the sub-headline may not match this overall layout of source material design aesthetic trends, but as we’ve learned from the traditional music industry up against the movement of Taylor Swift, we’re all questioning the establishment of seasonal trends, gender roles, and age difference, even the vulnerability of generations past, present and future that cause a multi-generational shift in our idea of fashion, comfort, and sexiness, style for one never goes away, it can become minimal in terms of revealing less, or for the most part, revealing more of you in expressiveness and sexuality, but its all part of the fun of bringing everyone together, and not feeling absolutely divided because we want to conserve more even, spring and summer 2025 will not only be about Gen Z, but also about the predecessors and the successors being the ALPHAS, blending our minimalism with an exploration of digital creativity that allows men and women to find themselves more.

Daniel Quintanilla