For Fall 2025, Tibi’s Creative Pragmatist Took a Trip to Antwerp
In July, Tibi’s founder and creative director Amy Smilovic and Traci Bui-Amar, senior vice president of design, took a trip to Antwerp, Belgium. Looking for inspiration, they were instantly taken by the city’s fluid merging of heritage and modernity across architecture, interiors and locals’ personal style.
“That’s what we really tried to do with the clothing — lean into more luxury fabrics than ever before and into modern sculpture, but wherever we lean modern that we’re completely meshing it with something that is just very classic and heritage at the same time,” Smilovic said the experimental twists demonstrated during a presentation in their SoHo space.
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“This was our space that we bought in 2008, and we just got it back. We’re turning it into the most amazing living room to meet with our clients in the future,” Smilovic said of the location, where they invited guests to get a behind-the-scenes look at their fall collection campaign and video in lieu of having a runway show. (Since the pandemic, the brand solely puts on runway shows for spring.)
Here, the collection was hanging in a custom Antwerp apartment-style vignette, and against a backdrop featuring funky door knockers. Models were clad in such modern-meets-heritage garb as an ultra lightweight skirt suit crafted in a papery fabric that looked like traditional wool, or a standout neoprene cinched and tailored jacket with leather collar paired with leggy jeans that could be zipped off into Bermuda shorts.
Each season, Smilovic is all about evolving her solutions-based philosophy. Fall continued that idea from the top down with a few nods to vintage moto style seen during their travels, and plenty of ease. For instance, elongated bomber jackets belted at the hem; utility-meets-jodhpur jeans featuring circular godets on the legs paired with a plaid shirt; boots with hidden internal wedges and wider leg shafts, as to emulate the shape of a dress under a pant; dresses that could be snapped up, or down and into a train; outerwear with internal backpack straps, and belts designed with motorcycle loops to hold the season’s leather mittens. They, of course, featured flaps that enable the wearer to still use their phone — pragmatic head to toe.
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