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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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Gianni Versace in His Own Time
Gianni Versace had a particular talent for bringing together things that were not necessarily expected to coexist. Greek antiquity appeared alongside pop imagery, Baroque ornament found its way onto silk shirts and metallic fabrics were worked into dresses that moved almost like liquid. His collections could be extravagant, provocative and occasionally excessive, but they were…
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Fashion’s New Front Row
Fashion’s most coveted seats have become a meeting point for celebrity culture, digital influence and global fandom. As brands rethink who deserves a place beside the runway, the front row is revealing a broader change in how fashion builds visibility, communicates identity and decides whose attention matters. A fashion show once relied on a relatively…
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Alaïa, African influences
At the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa in Paris, a new exhibition traces the presence of Africa across decades of the couturier’s work, revealing an influence carried through childhood memories, materials, colour and some of his most recognisable experiments with the body. Azzedine Alaïa made his career in Paris, but part of his visual language had been…