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Milan’s New Independent Voices
Away from the established runway calendar, Milan Fashion Week offers another perspective on contemporary design. The September 2026 edition of WHITE Milano brought together independent labels, international designers and emerging creative businesses whose work rarely receives the attention reserved for the city’s major houses. Their presence reveals a fashion landscape shaped by different cultural influences,…
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Ferragamo cut close
For Spring/Summer 2027, Maximilian Davis turns to the structured wardrobes of the 1940s, introducing unexpected materials and a distinctly contemporary sensuality. His work at Ferragamo reveals an interpretation of Italian elegance built on precise proportions, historical curiosity and an intimate understanding of the body. A grey double-breasted jacket dress, its shoulders broad and its waist…
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Moschino, a new kind of Italian irony
For their first Moschino collection, Simone Rizzo and Loris Messina brought hundreds of ordinary people onto a Milanese rooftop, sending them against the flow of the runway. Their Spring/Summer 2027 debut offered a different interpretation of the house’s irreverent heritage, one that found humour in everyday clothing, social conventions and the peculiar rituals of fashion…
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Luxury’s authenticity test
Luxury fashion has never been defined solely by the products it sells. It also depends on ideas that are far less tangible, including craftsmanship, artistic vision and the promise that every detail reflects human expertise. Throughout 2026, those values were increasingly tested as generative artificial intelligence became more visible in the industry’s creative process. What…
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Palais Galliera – 18th century fashion
There is something deceptively familiar about 18th-century fashion. Corsets, panniers, elaborate fabrics, powdered hair and ornament have become so recognisable that they can almost be read at a glance. They appear across cinema, photography, contemporary collections and popular culture, often long after the historical context that produced them has disappeared. La Mode du XVIIIe siècle…
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Luxury fashion’s creative reset
Luxury fashion has spent the past two years changing faces. Dior, Chanel, Gucci, Balenciaga, Loewe, Bottega Veneta, Givenchy and several other major houses entered new creative eras within an unusually compressed period, turning what might once have been treated as individual appointments into something closer to an industry-wide reset. By 2026, however, the fascination with…