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In Milan, the Perils of Looking Back

This season, the schedule was slimmer than ever and the remaining mega-brands reasserted their respective codes for young customers supposedly starving for history. But playing with nostalgia is a dangerous game.

Fashion Week

In Milan, the Perils of Looking Back

This season, the schedule was slimmer than ever and the remaining mega-brands reasserted their respective codes for young customers supposedly starving for history. But playing with nostalgia is a dangerous game.


Fashion Week

Male Glamour in Full Effect at Armani

Armani strikes so many fashion cognoscenti as someone who exists outside time, a designer to be given his drily respectful due rather than praise, but there was plenty to enjoy in this collection.

Fashion Week

Male Glamour in Full Effect at Armani

Armani strikes so many fashion cognoscenti as someone who exists outside time, a designer to be given his drily respectful due rather than praise, but there was plenty to enjoy in this collection.


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Fendi Takes on Tradition

Silvia Venturini Fendi has always delighted in toying with preconception, and her restlessness means she’ll never buckle under the weight of legacy.

Fashion Week

Fendi Takes on Tradition

Silvia Venturini Fendi has always delighted in toying with preconception, and her restlessness means she’ll never buckle under the weight of legacy.


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Tradition as Salvation at Prada

Miuccia Prada turned her latest outing into a comprehensive and riveting education in the history of her house, juxtaposing graphics from previous collections and making mutant combinations.

Fashion Week

Tradition as Salvation at Prada

Miuccia Prada turned her latest outing into a comprehensive and riveting education in the history of her house, juxtaposing graphics from previous collections and making mutant combinations.


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Neil Barrett’s Hybrids

The collection was a sharp, sophisticated consolidation of Barrett’s success, but its monochrome severity took its toll and the spectre of repetition reared its head.

Fashion Week

Neil Barrett’s Hybrids

The collection was a sharp, sophisticated consolidation of Barrett’s success, but its monochrome severity took its toll and the spectre of repetition reared its head.


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A Marni, a Child at Play

Francesco Risso created a sense of dreamy alt-reality at his latest outing for Marni, but there was a seriousness not just of play but of purpose to the collection.

Fashion Week

A Marni, a Child at Play

Francesco Risso created a sense of dreamy alt-reality at his latest outing for Marni, but there was a seriousness not just of play but of purpose to the collection.


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Versace’s Youth Cults

The show didn’t feel like pandering to fashion’s new millennial frontier because there was enough of Versace’s traditional decadent quirk to provide counterbalance.

Fashion Week

Versace’s Youth Cults

The show didn’t feel like pandering to fashion’s new millennial frontier because there was enough of Versace’s traditional decadent quirk to provide counterbalance.


Fashion Week

Precise Informality at Zegna

The impeccably tailored and gorgeously tactile collection could have used a dash of chaos.

Fashion Week

Precise Informality at Zegna

The impeccably tailored and gorgeously tactile collection could have used a dash of chaos.


Fashion Week

Most Wanted in Milan: Originality

Milanese designers referenced Balenciaga, Raf Simons and Gosha Rubchinskiy a bit too much, but Fendi, Marni and Zegna stood out.

Fashion Week

Most Wanted in Milan: Originality

Milanese designers referenced Balenciaga, Raf Simons and Gosha Rubchinskiy a bit too much, but Fendi, Marni and Zegna stood out.


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Made in Armani

The collection encapsulated a pretty accurate index of Armani’s strengths, but the repetitive nature of the designer's presentations often obscures the appealing languor of his clothes.

Fashion Week

Made in Armani

The collection encapsulated a pretty accurate index of Armani’s strengths, but the repetitive nature of the designer's presentations often obscures the appealing languor of his clothes.


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Banality and Provocation at Fendi

More Warhol than Wall Street in its typically-Fendi integration of polar opposites, the collection delivered a certain liberating subversion.

Fashion Week

Banality and Provocation at Fendi

More Warhol than Wall Street in its typically-Fendi integration of polar opposites, the collection delivered a certain liberating subversion.


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No. 21's Surf Escapism

Alessandro Dell'Acqua is not the most original designer, but he has a wonderful knack for grasping what's in the air and giving it his own catchy interpretation.

Fashion Week

No. 21's Surf Escapism

Alessandro Dell'Acqua is not the most original designer, but he has a wonderful knack for grasping what's in the air and giving it his own catchy interpretation.