ili node fall/winter 2025 collection “chronicles of the unseen road” released

ili node Fall/Winter 2025 collection “chronicles of the unseen road” was launched on March 28th, 2025 at Shanghai Fashion Week. The collection is set in the context of a California desert highway, and focuses on the identities and stories of the people who pass through it, constructing an image language with a rebellious and romantic temperament. The works point to the individual contradictions in a narrative way, and through the contrasting design of the clothes, they intend to depict the characters’ internal and external movements, to see the exploration and self-compatibility underneath the defects, and to search for the common freedom among the diversified groups.

ili node incorporates aggressive contrasting designs into its usual concise shapes, creating a sudden reversal of potential energy in a silent way, just like the sudden stirring of an individual’s inner view of himself. The suits in the series continue the brand’s signature three-dimensional tailoring process, portraying a broad and clear silhouette, while inserting large areas of nudity and slits in the back or waist, presenting an open and dangerous aura, just like the business elites speeding by on the desert highway, low and silent, while the headphones blare with the sound of rock and roll hissing. The white quilt wrapped around the body refers to the wanderer in the desert, whose skirt is loose and at ease, but the quilt is not enough to cover the whole body, and the restraint of just reaching the waist exposes the fluttering of the train, whose uneasiness and blushes may be the sleeplessness of the campers by the campfire, or the perplexity of the socialites walking through the high buildings. 2025 Fall/Winter collection is a subtle observation of the individual’s reliance on imperfection, and the warmth of self-acceptance. It also lingers on the warmth of self-acceptance. Thick as yellow sand burnt flower long skirt, complex than noble, but because of irregular cuts and dissociation of the vicissitudes, a layer of organza dense body, like a grand materialistic desire outside the drift of release. Imitating the asphalt texture of denim cotton cut out dress style, even if the form of self-restraint in the rules and regulations, but the inner retains the texture of rough personality. ili node is no longer confined to the relationship between clothing as a foreign object and people, but as part of the narrative of the personality, which demonstrates a unique paradoxical sense of beauty.

The white sand and low saturated color lighting in the show depicted the vastness of the California desert, and the presence of abstract installations resembled the diverse souls of the desert’s passers-by, constructing a field where personalities and physical objects interacted and intertwined. The models’ make-up and hair fly like a crosswind or a sports car, and their utopian looks are echoed in the cunning details of their clothes. In contrast to the restraint of previous seasons’ undercurrents, the ili node Fall/Winter 2025 collection looks back at the release of human beings in the primitive landscape, calling for the return of true emotions under the skin of society, and laying out the meandering life trajectories of multiple individuals. When the aisles of the showroom are empty of ruts and footprints, and the yellow light submerges the pupils of each viewer, you and I, dressed differently, are all travelers on the long desert road, free and eager, self-possessed and stable, just like ili node.