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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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Paris Fall/Winter 2026 – Reading the season
Paris rarely moves in one direction. Across nine days of shows and presentations, ideas overlapped, contradicted one another and occasionally arrived at remarkably similar conclusions. Fall/Winter 2026 was no exception. After the wave of creative director debuts that transformed the previous season, this edition felt less concerned with introductions and more interested in what might…
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Paris Fall/Winter 2026 – Miu Miu
Intelligence of instability Miu Miu has spent years examining femininity without trying to settle on a definitive version of it. Youth and maturity, vulnerability and authority, practicality and sensuality regularly occupy the same collection, not as opposites waiting to be reconciled but as different possibilities within the same wardrobe. For Fall/Winter 2026-2027, Miuccia Prada turned…
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Paris Fall/Winter 2026 – Vivienne Westwood
At Vivienne Westwood, history has never been particularly well behaved. It is borrowed, distorted and sometimes treated with outright irreverence, which is precisely why the house’s references to the past rarely feel nostalgic. For Fall/Winter 2026–2027, Andreas Kronthaler returned to that instinct with a collection that appeared chaotic by design, allowing different periods, characters and…