Diesel, renowned for its denim and casual wear, showcased a range of ultra-low-waist jeans and skirts, boucle jackets, and plastic-coated garments against a vivid backdrop of giant graffiti on the second day of the Milan Fashion Week.

That was the question I found myself asking during the Diesel fashion show in Milan on Wednesday, which concluded with three models (two men and a woman) in jeans slung so low that they revealed a coin-slot size portion of their bum cracks.

Models wearing contact lenses to give them a zombie stare, and spray-painted smiles, show tiny miniskirts and ultra-low-rise jeans in Milan.

A model wears a creation of the Diesel Fall/Winter 2025-2026 women's collection presented in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/)

At Milan Fashion Week, Diesel debuted its fall/winter 2025 collection featuring egregiously low-cut denim in which models bared their butt cracks. The Italian fashion house, known for its subversive runway shows, dressed a gaggle of male and female models in peek-a-boo jeans that showed a hint of plumber’s crack paired with backless tops.

One of the tests of a great fashion brand is how its clothes look off the runway, on regular people — not celebrities paid to wear the clothes, or models styled in the clothes, but fans who most likely put their money where their taste was, bought a piece, and wear it as they want.

Winter 2025 show disrupts convention with a bold collection that fuses destruction, reinvention, and global collaboration.

In a dressier-than-usual Diesel collection, Glenn Martens introduced a fetching fit-and-flare silhouette with a dropped waist.