SAUL NASH RELEASES AUTUMN/WINTER 2025 COLLECTION

by Julian Randall Jan 20, 2025

Metamorphosis, Saul Nash’s autumn/winter 2025 collection, is the eponymous label’s Milan Fashion Week debut. This season, Nash continues to venture beyond the sportswear from which he made his name. His movement-based design language now has an ethereal quality.

“Movement is an embodied thing. You live it, you are it, rather than needing to put certain clothes on to do it. One of the main qualities of movement is a sense of freedom. I want to create garments that allow people to liberate themselves. This season we’re exploring what this will look like through a new lens,” says Saul Nash.

With functionality at the core, Nash’s movement-based cutting is applied to a spectrum of archetypal menswear staples. A heavy-duty Japanese Kaihara Denim jacket is joined by kinetic-cut, seamless jeans. The matching set comes in a laser-etched, hazy moving body motif inspired by spiritual imagery, a returning inspiration for Nash.

Elements pulled from military and utilitarian wear are fused with Nash’s design codes. Both a recycled nylon parka and cropped bomber jacket – made with Primaloft padding – are cut with kinetic lines, each belted with cummerbunds that double as technical padded scarves and can be worn as cross-body bags thanks to a zip pocket.

There are transformative qualities to many of the pieces. A dual-colour Bemberg oversized cupro shirt with an asymmetric fastening, when unbuttoned, can be tied at the collar to change its shape. A similar technique is applied to a recycled nylon twill asymmetric pullover jacket with snap closures at the wrist, paired with zip-through trousers – a Saul Nash signature – which trace the contours of the leg, formalised with built-in belt loops.

Elsewhere, a leather jacket and an aviation hat are designed with holes for ventilation, the former coming with underarm cut-outs, allowing it to be worn sans sleeves. The innovative silhouette is echoed in a recycled fleece zip-up jacket and cropped hoodies made of recycled polyester scuba, with ninja-style cuffs.

These are hedonistic designs, questioning how far the Saul Nash man is willing to liberate himself through dress. A mesh-printed hoodie, for instance, becomes a basketball jersey, the sleeves hanging to the back in a long-line silhouette. Then there’s what appears to be a classic suit jacket made of pinstripe wool that can be unzipped of its sleeves to be worn as a buttoned-up hoodie.

While such pieces are structured in shape, their ability to transform allows the wearer to peel themselves out of their silhouette. “It’s about having the permission to allow yourself to be free, to shed an old part of yourself,” says Nash.

The collection’s ethereality isn’t just down to design, but material manipulation, too. A zip-up jacket and wide-leg pintuck trousers are made of a tri-acetate velour for a premium texture. Oxford shirts, equipped with protective hoods, are waterproof cotton ripstop, worn alongside compression tops fashioned from a sheer Tencel wool blend stretch fabric. Footwear throughout is courtesy of Reference Studios.

The Milan Fashion Week debut also included select men’s and women’s looks from Nash’s first SLNSH collection.