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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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Menswear has a body problem
At the Spring/Summer 2027 menswear shows, the male body seemed to be pulled in opposite directions. Some of the season’s narrowest tailoring appeared on exceptionally lean frames, while elsewhere exposed skin and abbreviated silhouettes drew attention to bodies shaped by muscle. One ideal was elongated and almost weightless, the other visibly built. Between them, surprisingly…
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Costume Art at the Met
Fashion has spent a long time negotiating its place inside the museum. Costume Art, which opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 10, 2026, begins from a different position. Rather than asking whether clothing deserves to stand beside painting or sculpture, the exhibition turns the question around. Look closely at art history, it…
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Inside Dior’s Grammar of Forms
Most runway shows end the moment the final look disappears backstage. The applause fades, guests leave their seats and, within minutes, the collection begins a new life online through thousands of carefully selected images. What remains is often a sequence of photographs that capture the silhouettes but inevitably compress the experience of seeing them in…