The Top Men’s Shoe Collections From Pitti Uomo’s Fall 2025 Edition
Pitti Uomo wrapped up on Friday at Florence’s storied Fortezza da Basso, as the men’s fashion crowd heads to Milan for the next stop in the menswear fashion month.
Exhibiting brands seemed to all agree on the ultimate shoe for the fall 2025 season: it’s a pair of boots, with the Chelsea style reigning supreme, followed by Western-inspired iterations. They mingled with plenty of hybrid footwear designs that combining the outdoorsy and urban elements, oftentimes taking cue from performance.
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Here, we round up some of the top shoes at Pitti Uomo’s June 2024 tradeshow.
Stuart Weitzman
“It was important to have a presence here as a stronghold of the men’s business. I can see now how important the fair is,” said Jonathan Lelonek, SVP of global wholesale at Stuart Weitzman, which attended the fair exacvtly one year since introducing a men’s line. The fall collection, hinged on a full shoe closet for contemporary men looking for versatile designs, saw the introduction of the first Chelsea boot design that features a nylon shaft creating an unexpected contrast with the polished leather upper part. It mingled with creeper-soled loafers and derbies sharing the same ultra-light chunky sole that the brand introduced with its debut men’s collection. For the more traditional customers, the Premiere collection intended for special occasion and defined by a bright blue outsole included pointy Oxford and loafers, as well as sleek Western-inspired Chelsea boots, a defning trend at Pitti Uomo.
Blundstone
The storied Australian footwear brand Bundtsone doubled down on its signature Chelsea boots, leveraging the outdoorsy and workwear trends in the current menswear landscape that have also defined its ethos since the foundation in 1870. The siognature shoe design was offered for fall in the Armolite and Armorgrip versions,k the latter featuring a vulcanizd rubber sole for extra protection.
Doucal’s
At a time of downturn in luxury spending, Doucal’s CEO Gianni Giannini believes that “timeless and special products are appealing for customers. They haven’t stopped to buy [fashion], they are just changing their purchasing attitude and rediscovering quality.” The 52-year-old brand is proving resilient to headwinds. “There are highs and lows but no real disruption for us, it’s a challenghing landscape but we’re ready to face it,” the executive offered. The brand, based in Italy’s Marche region, a key luxury footwear hub in the country, continued to bank on its signature designs rooted in classicism and exceptional manufacturing. For fall the lace-up Philadelphia style was updated with an alluring degrade effect giving the calfskin and suede combo of the upper part an edgy spin.
Keen
The U.S.-based brand rooted in mountaineering style and known for its seminal hiking sandals Newport, is expanding its global footprints in the lifestyle category with new designs toying with the appetite for the outdoorsy aesthetics. Perry Laukens, the brand’s head of sales EMEA, said that the whole market is shifting with the performance and lifestyle segments increasingly cross-pollinating. “In the traditional outdoor footwear category, the business is changing from leather shoes to athletic and lightweight,” he offered. This has proved a boon for Keen. In developing its key style pillars, the Jasper climbing-inspired sneakers was reinvented in the Zionic design with a chunkier outsole rendered for fall 2025 in an expanded range of materials including technical fabrics, in addition to the signature hairy suede. Going more experimental the Hypowser slip-ons and mules with bulbous and outsized soles are sure to speak to fashion-forward customers. The brand also introduced tie-ups with golfwear brand Metalwood and Scandi brand Skall, the latter aimed at fueling its appeal on female consumers.
Ecco
Also Danish brand Ecco is on a mission to recruit a new, fashion-savvy audience by revisiting its icons through a contemporary, outdoorsy bent. Marking the 20th anniversary of its signature Biom line defined by ultra lightness and flexibility, the brand attended Pitti Uomo for the first time unveiling the Biom C-Trail, 2.2 and Infinite iterations with a tapered and aerodynamic toe. The Gruuv style characterized by extreme resilience to shape and slightly more performance-driven was also reworked for seasonal iterations. Ecco general manager South Europe Silvia Capozza said that the brand – which counts 4,500 wholesale accounts globally in addition to 2,500 directly operated stores – is looking at consolidation in 2025 but simultaneously planning an expansion of its footprint in premium fashion and lifestyle retailers.
Ellesse
Ellesse is haervesting the fruits of its recent reboot, homing in on the signature LSR project of the namesake sneaker design. The fall season marked the introduction of a high-top version available in solid white, black and bicolor iterations. The OG low-top design debuted two seasons ago as part of the company’s new strategy was rendered in seasonal colorways inspired by tennis lifestyle, with the hairy suede version in the “Off Court” package defined by ‘80s-nodding color details against a predominantly white upper.
Lotto
Lotto’s positioning in the premium segment of the market has ensured it business resilience throughout 2024, a “complex year” in the words of the company’s president Andrea Tomat. “We decided to define a price cap of 150 euros at retail, which was a significant effort as we didn’t want to give up on the quality of our products,” he said. Although the fall collection teased a stronger focus for seasons to come on the women’s footwear business, currently accounting for a little less than one third of revenues, consolidation and innovation in the core men’s category equally paramount. The signature Losanga ’76 low-top sneakers were only subtly updated with an oversized and misplaced logo, the traditionally white upper part decked in vibrant earthy colors and the outsole defined by a vintage-nodding distressed effect.
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