Brutalist architecture, which seems to be having a renaissance, plays an important supporting role in Nehera’s 2025 resort collection. The lineup was inspired by the brand’s home city of Bratislava, specifically its fountains, one of which serves as the background of the lookbook images. As creative head Ladislav Zdút explained on a call, built into the planning of the city’s imposing communist housing and office blocks was a small percentage of funds for public art. This often took the form of fountains, which served as gathering places and softened the severe landscape. The contrast between hardness (structure, tailoring) and fluidity (inspired by water and achieved through drapery) was this outing’s main conceit, as well as a recurring brand theme.
This collection is consistent, but delivers few surprises. Its flatness likely has something to do with a drab color palette only occasionally enlivened by a squeeze of tart neon lemon. Dyed denim in deep khaki or mocha added welcome shots of saturated color to the collection. Look 34, a roomy bomber with matching pleated pants, wonderfully balanced sartorialism and sport. Also of interest were the cocoon shapes throughout, as on a shaped bias-cut skirt. The curved shoulder on look 10 created something like a rounded bubble back. Playing on the idea of the Brutalists’ preferred material, concrete, the team made use of a malfilé-silk suiting fabric resembling its stony, gray color.
The men’s looks here were not just for show; at the request of customers and friends, the brand is building out its offering to include menswear, debuting for spring 2025. The designs followed the same theme as women’s resort 2025, but the collection was more edited and skewed a bit more casual. Fluidity was played up for men in a way that made quite a splash.