There is an irresolvable interweave between fashion and space design. And Bottega Veneta has intertwining in its DNA. For the spring summer 2025 show, the Kering brand collaborated with Zanotta on a reinterpretation of the iconic Sacco armchair.
In the space set up inside the show’s location at Fabbrica Orobia, immediately in front of the catwalk, a crowd of animal snouts awaits the guests of the fashion show, they are brand new creations, designed for the occasion. Fifteen ‘species’, from dog to dinosaur, from fox to whale, all made - obviously - of leather, Bottega Veneta's material par excellence.
As Matthieu Blazy, Bottega Veneta’s creative director, put it, the result is a space of tenderness, a joyful world with ‘a sense of wonder, populated by friendly companions who make you smile and say “wow”’.
Under Blazy's direction, the brand has strengthened its ties with design and architecture: recall the collaboration with the late maestro Gaetano Pesce, the re-edition of the LC14 chairs that Le Corbusier designed for the Cabanon, the event at Lina Bo Bardi's Casa di Vetro.
This year, while on the Bottega Veneta catwalk the collection, which Blazy says he imagined with ’emotional sincerity’, the spectators - including celebrities such as Kendall Jenner, A$AP Rocky and Jacob Elordi, plus many key figures in the world of fashion - ‘sit’ disjointedly on Gatti, Paolini and Teodoro's intuition of 1968, that of a design that destroys any form (and any formalism) to accommodate the infinite forms of which our body is capable. Real bags, soft and plastic, just like Bottega Veneta's bags.
They are low to the ground so that they offer a different perspective when seated: they are both joyful and comfortable! I hope this sense of wonderment continues whenever people encounter them, whether at home or elsewhere.
Matthieu Blazy
The limited collection of seats, named The Ark, is super-limited: there are only two pieces of each model, just like in the biblical story. It can be found for sale on the brand's website.