Tag: Milan fashion week

Milan Fashion Week opens with a spring in its step

MILAN, Italy (AFP) – Chinese buyers are back, and business is booming — Milan Fashion Week opens Wednesday on an optimistic note, despite the shadows cast by the soaring cost of energy. Almost 70 catwalk shows, and 110 presentations are scheduled over the next six days, featuring the giants of Italian fashion, from Gucci to Fendi, Prada, Versace, Armani, Dolce & Gabbana and Bottega Veneta. The return of a mostly full live programmed in February […]

Milan Fashion Week wraps up with Armani’s colorful collection

MILAN, Italy (Reuters) — Italian designer Giorgio Armani stunned with bright and eloquent colours as he brought to a close six days of catwalk shows and events at the Milan Fashion Week on Monday (February 27). The 82-year-old designer brought his creations to life with ruby and deep reds, purple, orange, emerald green, turquoise, petrol and electric blue, as well as multicoloured polka dots as he had already done in his Emporio line, presented on […]

Asian designers go big at Milan Fashion Week

by Ella IDE Agence France-Presse MILAN, Italy (AFP) — Milan Fashion Week kicks off Wednesday with luxury giants from Versace to Prada sharing the stage with hot up-and-comers from Asia. Gucci opens six days of catwalk creativity, following earlier fashion weeks which throbbed with politics — New York runways flush with anti-Donald Trump protests, and Brexit-battered London. The Florence-based company’s head of design, Alessandro Michele, is signing up to the co-ed trend and will show […]

Gucci stages a kaleidoscopic fairytale at Milan fashion week

MILANY, Italy (Reuters) — Italy’s Gucci staged a kaleidoscopic fairytale on Monday (September 21) in one of the first catwalks showcasing women’s spring and summer 2017 collections in Milan’s fashion week. In the magic lanterns collection, layered and ruffled gowns, gold decorations and outfits echoing a hippy style took centre stage. Dragons, jelly fish, tigers, herons and parrots decorated coats and dresses and two zebras stood on a big orange fur coat. To the beat […]