Idyllic Summers is part of FashionPhilippines Milan 2025, a mentorship and exhibition program at Fondazione Sozzani during Milan Fashion Week 2025.


The Exhibition
23 – 25 September 2025;
10:30 AM – 7:00 PM
at Fondazione Sozani, Via Enrico Tazzoli, Milan, Italy

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Idyllic Summers presents Earthbound II, a collection of eco-printed workwear available exclusively at the ArteFino Fair from July 31 to August 3, 2025. Artists Geraldine Javier and Marionne Contreras partner up with designer Steffi Cua once again as memories of their gardens grace a collection of garments and accessories for both men and women.

This year’s collection is practical, but beautiful in their honesty—heavily inspired by the slow, yet intentional practice of tending to your own land. Smocks are dusted with marigold imprints, hidden pockets for tools and herbs add charm to their utility aprons, and finely tailored gardening jackets remain functional by design. Farming and foraging functionalities drawn from field clothing uniforms of fellow artist-farmers like Derek Jarman and Agnes Varda are also clear inspirations in this collection and have been reimagined to fit the Filipino environment.

A strong creative force behind this project, Geraldine Javier and her team of farmers and dyers practice their eco-printmaking in her farm in Cuenca, Batangas where Philippine native trees and produce are abundant. Javier shares that Earthbound II is a refinement of the team’s eco printing practice, seen in the more complex and colorful designs of the collection. “[From Earthbound I,] our vocabulary, colors, and the volume of our pattern designs have since widened,” she says in Filipino. “The results of our prints are always changing, so each print is a one of a kind work.”

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— A Conversation with Marionne Contreras

Can ecological art be both impactful and practical? Geraldine Javier, Marionne Contreras and Steffi Cua propose connecting with the earth by using natural materials and rethinking individual consumption in art and in daily life. Ecoprinted tapestries, sculptural objects and clothing highlight the possibilities of botanical printing, an easily self-taught process anyone can try at home. Javier continues her research and documentation on the dyeing properties of Philippine plants, with the urgency of seasonal timelines already beginning to morph and shift. Contreras investigates themes of displacement and existential crises through her explorations of invasive species and plant families. Cua advocates for slow fashion by using ecoprinted fabrics to make clothing designed with minimal waste and longevity. Together their works are a call for responsible cultural expression. They invite us to consider the ethical consequences of what we create and be mindful in representing ourselves as stewards of the earth and carers of others.

Idyllic Summers is a curatorial fashion studio from the Global South, using garments as a form of cultural research and material memory. 

Working with Filipino visual artists, artisans, weavers and embroiderers, the studio operates at the intersection of fashion, research and curatorial logic.