This month, we delve into the masculine universe in its feminine form with Max Mara’s AW2025 Sartoriale (Tailored Suit) capsule.
The Italian brand is well-known for its timeless creations and impeccable (quite unique) way of making tailoring a very feminine choice. Max Mara constructs a silhouette that rewrites the rules of men’s wardrobe staples, offering structures that celebrate and embrace women’s bodies.
When Max Mara launched its Tailored Suit project 11 years ago, it introduced a collection of classic, high-quality suits for women, inspired by traditional men’s tailoring techniques. The jacket was an overlooked element, seen as secondary to other style solutions. But the brand sees this piece as a travel companion and an instrument of self-affirmation.
The goal of this project was to translate an icon of menswear into a jacket whose cut, proportions and finish easily adapt to feminine curves. It is a laborious job; it takes 345 minutes of work to make a Tailored Suit jacket, twice that of a standard style. The refined fabrics, the canvas on the inside, the 130 hand-sewn stitches on the armhole and the careful pressing make it unique in the natural way it moulds to the various female physiques.
For Autumn and Winter 2025, the jacket comes in double- and single-breasted versions. The silhouettes play with constructed/deconstructed contrasts, where more formal double-breasted and semi- or fully-lined versions alternate with a softer, canvassed structure that resemble a lightweight shirt. Then there is the double-breasted jacket with elongated lapels and the velvet tuxedo version. On the single-breasted front, the ultra-feminine, three-button jacket is back with an accentuated waist.
There is also a lightweight, two-button version in flowing fabric, as well as a menswear-inspired version with longer proportions. The materials range from light, pure-cashmere melange to smooth velvet and ultra-light pure wools, plus the must-have pure-camel drap, the new slubbed melange wool, the Shetland effect that blends refined materials such as alpaca, cashmere, camel hair and yak, and finally, the yarn-dyed pinstriped and checked patterns. As for the colours, traditional shades such as ivory, black, kasha (golden brown), camel, grey and navy blue are accompanied by nude, denim blue that fades into light blue, loden green, brown and gold.
A capsule made for women who travel, work, speak up, explore, listen and invent – mothers, sisters and daughters.
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