The most original looks from the Autumn-Winter 2025 fashion shows I iODonna

THEin fashion winks at art and play withoptical illusion. A violin-shaped dress, a shirt that resembles a bag and vice versa a lantern-shaped bag. A roundup of the lmore original and surreal looks from the Autumn-Winter 2025/2026 fashion shows. Warning: not suitable for going shopping or wearing to the office.

In the age of artificial intelligence, deep fakes and augmented reality, the technique of trompe l’oeil (literally, “deceives the eye) is the designer’s tool for giving false three-dimensionality
on a two-dimensional plane. An ancient mastery used in art and then revived in fashion many times in the past and which today returns to the catwalk.

Original Autumn-Winter 2025/2026 looks

This season is full of optical illusions, not just stage games, but real everyday objects used as clothing or accessories. The need arises to provide an answer to the great confusion between real and virtual.

As Issey Miyake transforms the tailored shirt into a maxi bag, Marie Adam Leenaerdt proposes an evening dress that looks like a bowed package to be unwrapped.

Designer fakes also for accessories

If it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish the real from the fake, and the copy is almost more perfect than the original, fashion chooses to be ironic making everything more playful: theimperfect is the trend to follow, the obvious and perfection are for everyone.

So the bag is literally a beacon in the night Louis Vuitton shaped like a lantern, they play with the trompe-l’œil effect of the it bag Gabs And MM6 Maison MargielaOnly we can decide where illusion ends and reality begins, making us unique.