Kallmeyer Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear

Inside Bortolami Gallery, where Daniella Kallmeyer staged the fall 2025 show for her namesake label, sat a shiny black piano flanked by black gauzy rectangles hanging from the ceiling. The first exit was the Spanish pianist and composer Marta Sánchez, who sat at the piano and played for the duration of the show. “The collection began with a lot of poetic, romantic, and cinematic references, but in the current climate, it really became more of a march and an anthem and there was a seriousness to it,” said Kallmeyer backstage before the show. “I wanted things to be beautiful, to feel sublime and serene, even if it’s just for this moment of intimacy we’re creating in this space. So we can pause and breathe and remember craft and artistry.” Suiting is what Kallmeyer does best, and after a few seasons of expanding her range into denim and evening, she returned to her core DNA. Highlights included a black double-breasted suit cut close to the body yet sort of square, a shrunken gray blazer with hidden lapels (paired with baggy light-blue-wash jeans), and a very hot kind of ’80s full-on businesswoman ensemble of a softened black suit worn over a nubby crewneck sweater and shirt and tie and topped off with a lightweight mac-style coat.