In the hallway of a huge flower market, among flower shops and intrigued traders, Marco Rambaldi presented his fall 2025 collection entitled Future Memory. This oxymoron talks about memories of familiar feelings that, of course, recall the past, but at the same time they can be found in the future. More specifically in a figure defined as “mother,” not referring to biological ones though, but mostly to the mother one chooses to have. That’s a recall to an idea developed by Italian author Michela Murgia who, together with Chiara Tagliaferri—who walked down the runway—wrote a book called Morgana, a story centered on matriarchy. Thanks to these two writers, Marco Rambaldi discovered Lea Vergine, an Italian curator and art critic who, in the 1980s, dedicated an exhibition to a group of forgotten female artists—female figures to be remembered and kept in mind to build our future. Hence the title of this collection.
Thus, for fall Rambaldi celebrated the past with a series of garments labelled as “out of the closet” and entirely made with fabrics and already existing garments found in his personal or brand archive. The leather jacket of his father—the actual jacket—was paired with his signature crochet pieces and with a pair of shorts with a print of an old photo of his partner’s aunts weaving some crochet for them. An old crinoline belonging to a wedding dress was transformed into a skirt and matched to Fair-Isle-inspired zipped cardigans that introduced a vintage motif proposed for the knitwear pieces, like the argyle one. A similar pattern was also created through some crochet proposals made with the so called “classic Granny’s squares”—a knitting technique—transformed into jacquard fil coupé fabric and then used for hooded jackets or midi-dresses with Swarovski embellishments.
