Tag: Spring/Summer 2016

The collection the British designer presented in Milan was unmistakably Vivienne Westwood. All the elements of her signature style were present in the lineup — the rebellious attitude, witty sense of irony and audacity.

“A Few Palm Trees,” the tongue-in-cheek title of a self-published 1971 book by California artist Ed Ruscha, provided one of the emblematic print motifs for Italo Zucchelli’s latest men’s show for Calvin Klein, and its rather forced titled, “Graphic Heatwave.”

Massimiliano Giornetti mixed the city street and the tropical outdoors for a collection that skewed particularly young for an accessories-led brand that’s been in business for nearly 90 years.

Alessandro Dell’Acqua steered last season’s chic nerd into a more grungy direction for fall, referencing Nineties silhouettes with a rather raw touch.

Long a mega fashion don’t, socks and sandals are all over Milan and just got a stamp of approval from Bottega Veneta.

You could just about see the gold-leafed tower of Fondazione Prada through the tangle of wrecked cars—including two Rolls-Royces—that littered the Porta Romana rail yard that was Philipp Plein's show space this season. "Maybe one day there will be a Fondazione Plein," he said backstage: "If I have so much money from my shareholders that I don't know where to put it." Iconoclast or crass? That depends where you're coming from. For sure, though, Plein has shouldered his way inside the gates of Milan fashion week through force of ambition and serial entrepreneurialism. His shoe business alone has gone from nothing to 60 million euros per annum in four years. But this season's big-budget (2 million euros) production was the idea, he said, of his girlfriend.