Bloni Spring/Summer 2025 / SS25 at Paris Fashion entitled ‘Passages’
Bloni Spring/Summer 2025 / SS25 entitled ‘Passages’ excavates and builds the almost imperceptible and transient, yet latent arch across beings—from the known terrains, from the deep recesses of the seas, from artificial consciousness, from etheric existences. It is a matrix within which there is a power of journeying and alternating between these beings, their states, their dimensions and realities, of co-existences that yield a hybridity of form and type. There is an intermixing—of bodies, of anatomies, of skins, of functions—a travel between these.
The atelier’s ongoing explorations into form and materiality come to the fore here, that assumes a power of interaction across existences, closing the in-betweenness and alternate through states of being, travelling through imperfected contours of uncut crystals and earth matter, interrupted lyricism of silhouettes and perhaps a dark discomfiture of a kind of biophilia.
The pieces in Bloni Spring/Summer 2025 / SS25 collection surprises both the gaze and the self, enabling new methods and experiences of a garment. It revises the very foundation of garment-making, the essentialist notion of a garment to imagine a plurality where it exists away from the body. It seeks a new way of dismantling, reassembling and viewing bodies, garments and objects.
About the brand, Bloni adopts a future/historical lens on forms, textiles, materials and crafts. The fashion house articulates its design diversity through gender agnosticism and future thinking, spanning proprietary techniques, craft explorations, earth matter and unexpected fabrics. There is an unwavering focus on evolving the wearability of fashion in the context of anatomy and body politics, and future design metrics resetting identities, building hybridities and situating in inter-dimensions. The design preoccupation of the brand has been the notions of forms and tactile functions of fashion, to create a new standard of clothing that aids accessible cultural exchange.
Bloni stands as a dialogue between the past and the future, handcrafted and technological, everyday and mythical, subversion and creation.
About the designer Bloni, Akshat Bansal, a designer from Hisar, India, trained at the National Institute of Fashion and Technology and Central Saint Martins, London. He launched his brand in 2017, debuting at Lakmé Fashion Week’s Gen Next program. Bansal has received numerous accolades, including GQ’s Most Influential Indians 2024, Vogue Forces of Fashion 2023, and Forbes India 30 under 30 in 2020, cementing his reputation as an emerging talent in Indian fashion.
All images Bloni Spring/Summer 2025 / SS25 by Bloni. PR Agency Autrement PR Paris.