Marina Moscone Fall 2025: An Urban Edge

Over the last year, designer Marina Moscone has been spending more time at her home in Beirut, Lebanon, where her husband, a doctor, lives full time. Bouncing back and forth between there and New York City, she’s rediscovered a love of the Big Apple’s urban edge.

“I kind of missed going out in New York, there’s a little bit of poetry and a romance to it when you don’t live here,” she said during her brand’s moody-lit cocktail presentation at the Ritz-Carlton’s Madison Bar.

The clothes fit the setting. After designing into the more soft, romantic side of her consistent push-pull between masculinity and femininity the last few seasons, she leaned into menswear influences with layered darker, sexier styles.

“Helmut Newton’s subtle sexiness,” she said, as seen through an exaggerated navy blazer with satin lapel atop an asymmetrical black slip in a crushed soft technical pinstripe with inlaid sheer Art Nouveau-inspired floral lace.

While there were new takes on signature ideas — strong basque tailored topcoats, twisted and draped bias evening dresses — it was Moscone’s tension through fabric pairings that added a new dimension to the collection.

Beyond subversive-meets-feminine crushed and bonded combination slipdresses (a technique said to be inspired by John Chamberlain’s metal sculptures), newness came through slim-cut tailoring in intriguing mélange hues of ashy yellow and bordeaux (each woven from two colored threads inspired by the palettes of abstract artists Cecily Brown and Christopher Wool), as well as a belted technical satin dress with exaggerated faux fur sleeves.