RECKLESS ROMANCE
Milan: Romanticism always looms large for Francesco Scognamiglio, his muse a young, elegant and slightly demure sentimentalist. Fall saw the designer toughen up, while maintaining a sense of fantasy with simple ruffled silk blouses and retro pleated trousers. His daring moments arrived with a stark black and white animal print, sexy knit crop tops and fur collar jackets as
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VINTAGE GRUNGE
Milan: Several designers have cited the style of chic women over 60 as an inspiration this season, looking to both eccentric octogenarian fashion mavens and their own grandmothers. Although Alessandro Dell’Acqua’s Fall No.21 collection had its roots in 90s grunge, there was a fair amount of vintage resurrection too, an elegant version of the thrift shop look popular during
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DELICATE BY NATURE
Milan: For fall, Alberta Ferretti presented the delicate, feminine looks for which she is known, while also including tailored pieces to provide some structure. Fluttery chiffon and filmy lace dresses and tops will be familiar to her clientele, but Ferretti gave them wool skirt suits and embellished coats to round out their wardrobes. Nature, a theme common in
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DANGEROUS FEMININITY
Milan: Frida Giannini's Gucci collection started Milan Fashion Week off with a powerful, sexually-charged romp. "The Gucci women seduces with her dangerous femininity," read the show notes. There was certainly a surfeit of seductive danger in the lacquered python separates, bondage-y PVC turtlenecks, and severe, waist-nipping darts. Extended, sharp shoulders showed this woman meant business. Exoticism is an idea
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"I have absolutely no idea and no desire to describe myself. I am interested in humanistic aspects, but you can't work with morals. I try to design things that are true to themselves and not too influenced by marketing factors, things are for people, because my clients are people, not industry." – James Irvine to Designboom
It is a very sad day for the design
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By now your luggage for fashion month is packed, hair is cut and nails are immaculately lacquered. But if you're following the action from afar, do you have front row seats to all the social media action? Here are our top 10 Instagram accounts to follow this month, posted by the most media-savvy editors, brands, bloggers, photographers and PR companies with front
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Milan's menswear week has always been a hot bed for creative and bold denim design. Key designers like Versace, Diesel Black Gold, and Dsquared2 continue to revisit denim looks, delivering inspirational designs and unexpected silhouettes. The F/W 13 shows, held January 12-15, presented a barrage of techno-fabrics, fine Italian laundries, and a few eccentric oddities, showing the fashion world what the
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This January saw Prada stage its F/W 13 menswear fashion show in a domestic interior that embodies its "ideal house", designed by long-time design partner OMA.
Rem Koolhaas’s architecture firm OMA, as well as its AMO research-dedicated branch, are certainly not new to partnering with the Prada fashion brand: they have been collaborating for over a decade, ranging from store concepts
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OFFICER HEP CAT
Milan: The Caten brothers showed a collection ripe with nostalgia for a time gone by, when US GIs wore chunky olive overcoats on the battlefields of Europe and cool-guy fedoras in the dance halls back home. The Caten’s designs shifted between military utility and jazzy hipsterisms, with models sporting well-made garments that found grounding in utility. Tartan tuxedo
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GENTLEMAN OF ACTION
Milan: Giorgio Armani delivered a namesake collection that at first appeared scattershot, with conservative grey business suits marching next to cranberry pony hair overcoats. However, as more models appeared, sporting knit suits or trousers and fur bombers, it became clear that the designer was presenting two sides of the same adventurous gentleman – a man at home doing
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DARK INFLUENCE
Milan: The influence of Hedi Slimane’s S/S 13 womenswear collection for Saint Laurent is slowly emerging in the menswear shows this season via a darkly bohemian rock and roll sensibility, an aesthetic perfectly suited to Diesel’s Black Gold line. For F/W 13 the label presented military coats mixed with flashy and luxurious velvets, tooled leather and astrakhan fur, the
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