Anna Sui Plays With Romanticism Across Her Youthful Resort 2025 Collection
Anna Sui is predicting a fashion shift.
“This collection we’re calling romanticism. It’s about the fantasy of imagination and beauty and heroism and folklore. I think that we’re about to change. Fashion is going to change, and I think that we’re just on the verge of a new thing. I’m trying to push myself a little bit more,” Sui said during a preview, citing the widespread positive response to Chemena Kamali’s debut Chloé collection and the return of bohemian fashion.
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“It might become something new, more romantic. Quiet luxury doesn’t go far, so we tried to make this more feminine,” she said.
Her clever response to the current shift was a resort collection filled with frills, ruffles, peplums, lace, pussycat bows, prairie — which she calls “granny” — dresses, and texturally rich wardrobing rooted in easy, youthful wearability. Case in point: a bow belted, sweet little white lace party dress that reminded Sui of a look Courtney Love wore in the ‘90s; little petticoat skirts with matching bralettes or oversized cardigans, or a little Chanel-esque skirt suit with striped pajama shirt.
Sui said her recent April trip to Italy, where she visited the San Domenico Museum for its pre-Raphaelite art exhibition, fueled the collection’s tapestry motifs; wallpaper floral “Rosetti” and “Sleeping Beauty” prints; mostly blue hues (alongside another color story of black and lilac), and Italian goddess and nymph painting-inspired flowy dresses.
Lightweight, slightly tricked-out blue denim with embellished butterflies (and matching, reissued spring ’93 collaborative John Fluevog appliquéd boots) or a denim corset top paired with a tweedy kilt, nicely grounded her romanticism-tinged, texturally layered-up looks. Loads of playful dots — stemming from the designer’s current obsession with the pattern — added to the collection’s lightweight, playful feel à la prints or in satin devoré, velvet and dotted Swiss.
Overall, the collection upholds Sui’s sweet sensibility and easy wearability with nostalgic, vintage nods — all of which her growing, younger customer base continually yearns for.
Launch Gallery: Anna Sui Resort 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
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