Berlin Fashion Week AW25: The Lou De Bètoly AW25 Collection
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Event: Berlin Fashion Week AW25
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Brand: Lou de Bètoly
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First published: 02nd February 2025 at 2:00 PM GMT.
Lou de Bètoly’s latest collection demonstrates the designers efforts to continue to push the boundaries between fashion, art and traditional craftsmanship.
About Lou de Bètoly
Lou de Bètoly, a Berlin label founded by the French designer, combines elegance with extravagance, fragility with chaos, and innovation with nostalgia. Focusing on sustainability through upcycling and local handicraft, the label works exclusively with vintage and deadstock textiles. The unique Haute Couture pieces blend traditional techniques like embroidery, knitting, and weaving with contemporary aesthetics – as seen on celebrities like Dua Lipa, ROSALÍA, and Beyoncé.
Why did you start your label/business?
With Lou de Bètoly, I wanted to focus on craft and blur the boundaries between applied art, design, and art. There are different ways of being a designer. What's interesting and challenging is rethinking the process, showing new possibilities, and still feeling free to create while being conscious of what you're putting into the world. I wanted to find a way out of the dead end of commerciality repeating itself over and over again and resulting in a lot of waste.
Lou de Bètoly AW25
Lou de Bètoly’s latest collection demonstrates the designers efforts to continue to push the boundaries between fashion, art and traditional craftsmanship. Each one of the forty looks is crafted from pre-owned materials and forgotten treasures that were transformed into contemporary pieces, conveying both drama and luxury, sprinkled with Lou de Bètoly’s unmistakable sense of humour. The collection features vintage nightgowns, meticulously pleated and draped by hand to achieve a liquid-like fluidity, deconstructed brassieres transformed into architectural bodices, and intricate lace work appearing to dissolve weightlessly against the body. Pink bed sheets from a previous set design were restructured to create fur-like two-piece suits. Reflective bike fragments collected from Berlin's streets shimmer in neckholder tops, while leather jackets are sliced and reconstructed into fluid ruffles. Handmade knit pieces feature chicken feathers collected from the designer's parents’ garden. Throughout the collection, contrasts create dramatic tension: structured tweed sets complement delicate silk dresses, a standout bridal piece crafted from decomposing lace and crystalline embellishments plays between fragility and opulence, and mohair is woven through transparent nylon knit dresses like abstract brushstrokes.
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