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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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Who gets to be a fashion capital now?
Paris, Milan, London and New York still command the international calendar. But Florence, Copenhagen, Seoul, Tokyo and Rome suggest that fashion influence no longer depends on a single model of what a capital should be. For much of the modern fashion industry, the map has appeared remarkably stable. New York opens the international womenswear circuit,…
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Paris high jewellery, July 2026
From the human hand at Boucheron to Chaumet’s sensory botany and Messika’s exceptional blue diamond, the July 2026 high jewellery collections transformed memory, matter and movement into objects that may never exist twice. A gemstone can hold light for an instant, while a jewel can hold a gesture for generations. In Paris this July, those…
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Designers to know before September 2026
September has a habit of reorganising fashion’s attention. New collections arrive almost continuously, established houses dominate the schedule and a handful of emerging names suddenly seem to be everywhere at once. By October, some will feel considerably less unfamiliar than they did a month earlier. This year, several designers are entering that period with unusual…