Bally F/W 2025.26 Milan

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[tatouejeremie]

i probably like 90% of the looks here, feels like it's 2008 again

 

[Lola701]

His work gives me anxiety.
The cut and the fit of these clothes is something….
I guess I will never get it.
Hopefully he stays at Bally.

 

[perhydrol]

^Same! I'll probably never get the hype around Bellotti's work because to me, every single look's proportions are wrong here, and everything looks incredibly stiff and uncomfortable. And it's not just this collection, it's the same problem with every show he's presented at Bally. To think that it's him who's allegedly going to Jil Sander... the horror. It would be like an evil cousin of Paglialunga's JS.

 

[j02215]

I fear for Jil sander. Fingers crossed that it doesn’t work out.

 

[LasagneDelRey]

Some looks are very out of place here. Kinda hoping he stays at Bally. Jil Sander needs a tailor who knows how to make a good coat, suit.

 

[FashionFanatico]

love this look.

Not everything is perfect or striking at first glance, but there is something genuine in his designs that is rare nowadays.
Some of his pants are very well cut, not stiff or complicated to wear at all.

 

[jeanclaude]

I don´t get the point of trying to transform Bally into an avant-gardish brand...not working.

Also, the make-up and the dress on this model is scary!! He transformed her into an apparition from beyond the realm of the dead.

 

[Lola701]

I don´t get the point of trying to transform Bally into an avant-gardish brand...not working.

Also, the make-up and the dress on this model is scary!! He transformed her into an apparition from beyond the realm of the dead.

I guess he wanted to do the bumps and lumps of Rei.
And those ugly shoes..

 

[susseinmcswanny]

Why they choose that pic of him ? He's so handsome!

 

[brandon J pierre]

Yikes 😬 , lots of ill-fitted finishes. One silver face girl. No clear vision.

 

[brandon J pierre]

I don´t get the point of trying to transform Bally into an avant-gardish brand...not working.

Also, the make-up and the dress on this model is scary!! He transformed her into an apparition from beyond the realm of the dead.

What are they doing, ? Experimentally commercial never collide together.

 

[IsabelMarantBoy]

It's like an awful mix of John's MMM, Philo-isms, and some other random derivatives works, it's not good.

Also what's that awful V-shaped green fur trim sweater dress??? 🤢

 

[bc collector]

Simone Bellotti is on his way out, allegedly. His Bally did not meet customers' approval but then, I wonder, who are they? does such a thing as Bally customers even exist?
One thing I know: Bally has never attracted so much attention as under Bellotti's tenure, regardless of whether you might like it or not, but it is something worth stopping and watch in Milan (and, alas, there are not many left anymore).
I imagine the suits at the headquarters must be so confused at this point as to wonder if they even know what they are doing (easy guess: they don't).
Good luck to them, anyway, in finding someone who can do better than Bellotti at such a hopeless brand.

 

[JohannesL]

Why they choose that pic of him ? He's so handsome!

I am thinking about if we should start a new thread dedicating to goodlooking designers, but I am too mediocre to understand his work.

 

[tatouejeremie]

i find it funny how people are so fixated on the “wearability” of bally’s runway collections when their core business is shoes and bags. a fashion show is about building an aura around the brand—it’s marketing, not a direct representation of what will sell in stores.

look at fendi. their last collection was full of wearable, well-designed clothes, but let’s be real—95% of it will never hit the shop floor because that’s not what their customers buy. they make their money on logo bags, monogrammed basics, and easily digestible status pieces, just like most big luxury brands.

yet somehow, bally gets held to a different standard. people act like the clothes need to be commercially viable when, in reality, the show is just a branding exercise like any other.

 

[tatouejeremie]

and clearly, this new approach has been working—bally has been getting a lot of positive press and, for the first time in god knows how many years, is actually a topic of conversation in fashion.

even though people here on tfs just want dated italian glamour from 2002, some have moved on.

 

[Lola701]

i find it funny how people are so fixated on the “wearability” of bally’s runway collections when their core business is shoes and bags. a fashion show is about building an aura around the brand—it’s marketing, not a direct representation of what will sell in stores.

look at fendi. their last collection was full of wearable, well-designed clothes, but let’s be real—95% of it will never hit the shop floor because that’s not what their customers buy. they make their money on logo bags, monogrammed basics, and easily digestible status pieces, just like most big luxury brands.

yet somehow, bally gets held to a different standard. people act like the clothes need to be commercially viable when, in reality, the show is just a branding exercise like any other.

Fendi do sell clothes…
We got to stop with that narrative. It’s not because a brand sells 80 or 90% of accessories that they don’t sell clothes.

Clearly, if Bally is in the conversation again, it’s because some editors believed that the clothes were worthy of some type of conversation.

The thing for me about Bally is that the bags and shoes are also terrible.

If we decides to have conversation regarding what really sells, we should be discussing Re-See, Showroom appointments and Trunkshows then. And for all the brands.

 

[tatouejeremie]

Fendi do sell clothes…
We got to stop with that narrative. It’s not because a brand sells 80 or 90% of accessories that they don’t sell clothes.

Clearly, if Bally is in the conversation again, it’s because some editors believed that the clothes were worthy of some type of conversation.

The thing for me about Bally is that the bags and shoes are also terrible.

If we decides to have conversation regarding what really sells, we should be discussing Re-See, Showroom appointments and Trunkshows then. And for all the brands.

of course fendi sells clothes, but the point is that the majority of their revenue still comes from accessories. the same goes for nearly every major luxury brand. no one is saying they don’t sell ready-to-wear, just that the runway collections are more about image-building than direct commercial success.

and yes, bally’s presence in the conversation now is because some editors have found the clothes interesting—but that’s exactly my point. before this, no one was talking about bally at all. whether people love or hate the collection, it’s generating more attention than the brand has had in ages.

as for the bags and shoes, that’s subjective (i love them and they’re selling)