Seven days of events, fashion shows, and exhibitions dedicated to conscious fashion, featuring a conversation with Dries Van Noten, the celebration of Bevilacqua’s 150th anniversary, and new fashion designers at Galeries Bartoux at Cinema Accademia
From October 20 to 26, Venice Fashion Week promotes Venice as an international laboratory for those looking to the future of fashion and design with an ethical, artisanal, and experimental perspective.
Among the highlights:
• Dries Van Noten will engage in dialogue with Sara Sozzani Maino, Adele Re Rebaudengo, and Antonio Mancinelli on Friday, October 24, about supporting new generations of creatives and artisans, at the Giardini Reali in Piazza San Marco. The Belgian designer will transform Palazzo Pisani Moretta into a hub of contemporary creativity and craftsmanship.
• On Wednesday, October 22, Le Mani Sapienti, the event celebrating conscious brands and young designers, will take place at Galeries Bartoux, the new cultural space created in the former Cinema Accademia.
• The 150th anniversary and new creative project of Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua, one of Venice’s most important centers of excellence, will be celebrated with an exhibition at Palazzo Venart.
• The exhibition Venetian Glamour by Jacopo Ascari, curated by Federico Poletti, will showcase the Film Festival Red Carpet at Ca’ Nani Mocenigo.
• Atelier Aperti returns to artisan workshops and art spaces, with walks discovering fashion venues and Breakfasts with Designers.
• The international guest of Venice Fashion Week 2025 is the City of Gdańsk, with the international project The Amber Route: an exhibition featuring designers from around the world, workshops, and a fashion show-performance, curated by designers Jola Słoma and Mirek Trymbulak.
From October 20 to 26, Venice Fashion Week promotes Venice as an international laboratory for those looking to the future of fashion and design with an ethical, artisanal, and experimental perspective.
Conceived and organized by Venezia da Vivere, part of the official program of Major Events of the Municipality of Venice with the support of Vela Spa and the patronage of the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy, the event involves ateliers, textile mills, universities, foundations, hotels, and institutions, and collaborates with other city projects.
“Venice Fashion Week is born from the connection between territory, sustainability, businesses, and human relationships,” states Laura Scarpa, founder of the event with Lorenzo Cinotti. On the 2025 theme Craft Economy, Cinotti adds: “Venice embodies a new economic model: artisanal creativity and technological innovation build concrete alternatives to traditional luxury.”
Venice Fashion Week introduces training in communication and event organization: students from the Art Logistics course (Higher Technician for Logistics Management and Installation of Major Exhibitions and Cultural Events) at Fondazione ITS Marco Polo Academy will contribute to event organization and exhibition installation.
Demonstrating the city’s networking capacity, the event has for years created joint initiatives with partners such as Venice Design Week, Venice Cocktail Week, Università Iuav, Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri D’Arte, Associazione Sant’Elena, Associazione Piazza San Marco, and The Home of The Human Safety Net.
The Program
Monday, October 20
Palazzo Contarini Polignac opens Venice Fashion Week 2025 on Monday, October 20 with the fashion show-performance Always in Venice by Alwaysupportalent, presenting the designers:
– Alessandra Aiardo (jewelry and garments)
– Antonio dei Rossi (jewelry and garments)
– Camilla Hu (garments)
– Charlotte Boyer (hats)
– Donatella Storto (garments and jewelry)
– Elio Illiano (garments)
– Luca Giannola (garments)
– Meaornamenta (jewelry)
– Nadia Malik (garments)
– Raffaele Zenga (garments and shoes)
– Yasminae (garments)
From Monday, October 20 to 27, the exhibition Venetian Glamour by Jacopo Ascari, curated by Federico Poletti, will be on display at Ca’ Nani Mocenigo. Ascari’s drawings, photographs by Venezia da Vivere photographers, and the gowns of the festival’s Godmothers designed by major Italian fashion designers tell the story of the Venice Film Festival red carpet, an extraordinary union of cinema, fashion, and architecture.
Tuesday, October 21
The Venice Fashion Week day begins with an unusual breakfast by Bellini Canella with jewelry designers and talents in Venice, as part of CreativeMornings Venice, breakfast talks organized in unusual and extraordinary locations for the Venetian creative community.
On October 21, we will celebrate 150 years of Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua. With an exhibition in the historic spaces of Palazzo Venart Luxury Hotel, the historic Venetian textile mill will unveil new creations oriented toward innovation and experimentation: new Art Nouveau designs on precious silk velvet, the return of hand-woven brocade in silk and metal foil, and the first Bevilacqua wallpaper collection. The exhibition is accompanied by a book dedicated to the anniversary with previously unpublished material from the archives: historic fabrics, original pattern designs, and never-before-published documents that tell the story of the Bevilacqua family’s artisanal heritage.
The Blue Artisan: Venezia da Vivere and Seguso Vetri d’Arte annually award recognition to artisanal excellence that has successfully passed on its knowledge to new generations. In the presence of Alessandra De Nitto from Fondazione Cologni, the 2025 award will be presented to Alberto and Rodolfo Bevilacqua of Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua.
Wednesday, October 22
Le Mani Sapienti, the event celebrating new conscious brands and young designers, moves to a new venue: fashion collections by Venetian designers and five students from the IUAV Master’s in Fashion will be presented in the new spaces of Galeries Bartoux, which brings art to the former Cinema Accademia.
Also here, the meeting Crafting luxury brands, Craftsmanship, sustainability, and urban regeneration as a culture of quality, organized with Upskill 4.0 and Brand Ratio.
Thursday, October 23
The mosaics of Fornace Orsoni come to life on the garment-sculptures of (Re)sources / (Hi)story / Project(ed) worn by students from Kolding School of Design, led by fashion designer Silvano Arnoldo. Students from the Design departments—Fashion, Accessories, Textiles, Communications, and Industrial Design—used Orsoni mosaics and materials provided by Lineapelle to recreate the costumes from the opera Alessandro nelle Indie. The exhibition can be visited at the furnace until October 23.
Friday, October 24
Great anticipation for the meeting at the Giardini Reali in Piazza San Marco on supporting new generations of creatives and artisans with Sara Sozzani Maino—Creative Director of Fondazione Sozzani, Dries Van Noten, the Belgian designer who will transform Palazzo Pisani Moretta into a hub of contemporary creativity and craftsmanship, journalist, writer, and fashion critic Antonio Mancinelli, and the President of Venice Gardens Foundation Adele Re Rebaudengo.
In the morning, in the spaces of Palazzo Keller, the talk Fashion Journalism: Narrating the Contemporary with journalist Antonio Mancinelli.
Following, the Midday Aperitif with Legend Kombucha, created in collaboration with Venice Cocktail Week and Hotel Palazzo Keller.
Saturday, October 25
At the Procuratie in Piazza San Marco, fashion is encounter and relationship with the workshop ReWear! The Collective Intelligence of Upcycling and Breakfast with the Designer with Demis Marin of Ramosalso.
Fashion and sustainability will be discussed on Saturday afternoon at the Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo with the book Moda interspecie by Clizia Moradei (Università Iuav di Venezia)—in dialogue with researcher Costanza Sartoris from Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia—as part of the exhibition Filamenta.
The international guest of Venice Fashion Week 2025 is the City of Gdańsk
Baltic amber and Gdańsk fashion take the runway in Venice on the evening of Saturday, October 25, with the international project Relationships: an exhibition featuring designers from around the world, workshops, and a fashion show-performance, curated by designers Jola Słoma and Mirek Trymbulak, in collaboration with Venice Design Week, the Amber Route Foundation, and Amberif International Amber and Jewelry Fair, to tell the story of the ancient trade route that connected the Baltic Sea to Venice.
Creativity—music, fashion, and craftsmanship—is a common language: Venice Fashion Week promotes Venezia Sounds, the concert-event at the Tese dell’Arsenale on Saturday, October 25, produced by Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue and Medicine Rocks, which combines great music and support for research.
Sunday, October 26
At Atelier Lunardelli from 12 PM, a breakfast-cocktail interweaves taste, fragrance, and design: The Alchemy of the Senses is a creative encounter between Lunardelli, Maison Valmont, and Venice Cocktail Week. The cocktail created by Lino Marchese for Venice Cocktail Week and Venice Fashion Week will be the occasion to discover new furniture pieces in the carpentry-atelier, the perfume collection Laguna Verde I, a floral-woody extract with a wooden cap designed by Lunardelli, and a journey through olfactory art, conviviality, and Venetian craftsmanship.
Atelier Aperti returns from Thursday, October 23 to Sunday, October 26, opening artisan workshops, fashion spaces, and art venues, where this year Breakfasts with Designers will take place with CreativeMornings Venice and Lightbox.
The exhibitions organized by Venice Fashion Week are: 150 Years of Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua at Palazzo Venart Luxury Hotel and Venetian Glamour by Jacopo Ascari, curated by Federico Poletti, at Ca’ Nani Mocenigo.
Partner exhibitions are: The Amber Route, organized by the Amber Route Foundation, the City of Gdańsk, Amberif International Amber and Jewelry Fair with Venice Design Week, (Re)sources / (Hi)story / Project(ed) at Fornace Orsoni with Designskolen Kolding, Filamenta at the Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo, curated by the Master’s Degree Course in Fashion at Università Iuav Venezia and Venice Design Week, Ove V’è Vetro at Scala Contarini del Bovolo, with works by Antonio dei Rossi and Luca Giannola for The Venice Glass Week, and Life by Venice Photo Lab.
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Venice Fashion Week
It is a project conceived and curated since 2013 by Venezia da Vivere, a digital communication, events, and projects company whose mission is to support talents and promote Venice as an ideal city in which to live and create.
Venice Fashion Week has the patronage of:
Municipality of Venice, Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Tavolo Veneto della Moda, Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte, Università Iuav di Venezia.
Main Partners
Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua, Palazzo Venart Luxury Hotel.
Partners
Upskill 4.0 – spin-off of Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, ITS Marco Polo Academy, Seguso Vetri d’Arte, Orsoni Venezia 1888, Kolding School of Design, City of Gdańsk, Amberif International Amber and Jewelry Fair, Amber Route Foundation, Libreria La Toletta, CreativeMornings Venice, Lightbox, Antonio dei Rossi, Alwaysupportalent, Associazione Piazza San Marco.
We thank
Palazzo Keller, Palazzo Nani Mocenigo, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Galeries Bartoux Venezia, Venice Gardens Foundation, Seguso Vetri d’Arte, Bellini Canella.
The poster is designed by artist and illustrator Jacopo Ascari.
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