
Milan designers propose assertive winter looks
Milan designers have proposed assertive and even aggressive looks for next year, as if to fill a power vacuum felt keenly in Italy in the face of ...

Giorgio Armani offers boy-girl fall look in Milan
Giorgio Armani had the last word at Milan Fashion Week, and not only where the clothes were concerned. Speaking to reporters between his two shows on ...

Fur dominates many a Milan runway
Fur is dominating many Milan runways this season, which would be handy for this week's unusually persistent snowy weather. From big shaggy coats, ...

Dolce&Gabbana's new line recalls sacred, profane
"La Dolce Vita" was the name of the game at Dolce&Gabbana, where the fun-loving designing duo recalled the sacred and profane of mundane Italian life, ...

Marni decks out winter looks with fur
The Marni woman is decked out in fur for next winter. And what imaginative uses designer Consuelo Castiglioni has employed in the winter 2014 ...

Milan designers go for structured looks
Milan designers chose structured, architectural looks in their collections for next year. On the runways, the basic silhouette is voluminous, though ...

Milan Fashion Week: Cavalli offers winter glitter
For designer Roberto Cavalli, it was a very quiet and surprisingly elegant show. The master of sexy fashion shuns his trademark animal prints and ...

Bottega Veneta looks project strength and decision
Bottega Veneta's looks for women next winter project strength and decision. Creative director Tomas Maier's collection was precisely constructed, with ...

Shoes are the new jewelry on Milan runways
Donatella Versace once famously said that shoes are the new jewelry. This season, her decree is being fulfilled to the hilt — which at times means all ...

Versace nails a new punk look for next winter
Donatella Versace doesn't seek to revisit punk so much as to interpret what it would be if it were born today. She may have nailed it in the women's ...

Etro creates a kaleidoscope of powerful clothes
The Etro collection for next winter was short and to the point. Walking through a kaleidoscope of Etro patterns projected on a screen, the models ...

Large coats a mainstay for next winter from Milan
Many of the fashions displayed on the Milan runway Thursday had a yesteryear appeal — but with a contemporary edge. Coats are a mainstay for next ...

DSquared2 features masculine tailoring for her
Both the masculine and feminine sides of the DSquared2 label were shouting over each other for attention. The collection for next winter, presented ...

Prada presents yesteryear opulence
The Prada finale was a long luxurious mink coat with ample collar and cuff like the ones the Hollywood divas used to wear in the 1950's.

Fendi in Milan sticks discreetly to fur heritage
Fendi is to fur what Ferrari is to cars. Yet given current concerns about animal rights, the brand has moved from the lavish fur coats that were all ...

British style icon Alexa Chung inspires Blugirl
Blugirl has looks for women feeling both demure and daring at the same time — mixing traditional tartan, peek-a-boo lace and bold leopard prints.

Max Mara strikes a note of functional elegance
The German Bauhaus design school gave the world functional yet elegant design in both everyday objects like chairs and teapots to living and working ...

Gucci woman mixes demure with daring
Milan fashion designers hit a theatrical note in women's winter collections previewed on the opening day of Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday.
Ferretti goes Victorian minimal for next winter
The latest Alberta Ferretti winter collection could be labeled minimal Victorian. There were many elements of 19th-century fashion in the show ...

Milan fashion: Conservative looks are in
The winter fashion statement coming out of Milan this time has been decidedly conservative. Milan designers stuck to the classics in their menswear ...

DSquared2 offers military motifs and fancy suits
Every season the Canadian designing twins, Dean and Dan Caten, creators of the DSquared2 label, present their wears in a different runway setting.

Milan runways offer constructed winter silhouette
Menswear looks for next winter have a simple silhouette that is accentuated by stiff, structured outerwear. Whether a hooded jacket or a military ...

Emporio Armani offers a youthful winter wardrobe
The Emporio Armani menswear collection for next winter is upbeat. More than for the young, the second line collection is in itself young. The boyish ...

Milan designers fall back on the classics
It's not a fussy season. Next year's winter look is classic without being retro, full of staples that distinguish themselves from years past through ...