Backstage at the Ottolinger Spring 2025 Show

Backstage at the Ottolinger Spring 2025 Show

Story by Andrew Nguyen / Photography by Jose Cuevas
Oct 01, 2024

For Ottolinger's Spring 2025 runway, Berlin-based design duo Christa Bösch and Cosima Gadient presented a collection for the fearless and adventurous girl who just wants to have some fun.

Set in an abandoned parking garage, models walked out from the jaws of a giant inflatable shark onto the runway in big, glamorous hair and deconstructed clothes — an Ottolinger trademark. Neoprene leggings were paired with printed and branded bikini tops, and jersey dresses were tattered and torn, and sometimes had displaced collars.

Spring 2025 also introduced the brand's first time working with leather, in collaboration with ECCO.Kollektive: crinkled leather jackets with funnel necks, wedge heels and mules and Ottolinger's take on the Birkin bag.

Below, PAPER got an exclusive look backstage at the Ottolinger Spring 2025 show.

Photography: Jose Cuevas