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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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The V&A exhibition – Schiaparelli effect
At the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art arrives at a moment when fashion is increasingly expected to justify its place within culture. More than a retrospective of one of the twentieth century’s most unconventional designers, the exhibition asks a question that has followed fashion for decades without ever receiving a…
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3 tensions shaping Milan Men’s Fashion Week SS27
Milan Men’s Fashion Week rarely revolves around a single trend. While other fashion capitals often produce one dominant silhouette or aesthetic that comes to define the season, Milan tends to reveal something less immediate but ultimately more revealing. Spring/Summer 2027 was no exception. Across the week’s runways and presentations, designers responded to a menswear landscape…
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Against uniformity: Thom Browne in Milan
Among the many interpretations of contemporary tailoring presented at Milan Fashion Week Men’s, Thom Browne once again occupied a category of his own. While much of the season leaned towards softer silhouettes, understated luxury and commercially driven refinement, Browne approached menswear through a language that has become uniquely his, one where tailoring serves as the…