Milan Fashion Week

September 28, 2020

In Milan, Fashion Tries to Go Back to Normal. What Does That Even Mean?

In 1975 Valentino Garavani, then the most feted couturier in Rome, moved his ready-to-wear show from Italy to Paris, the better to underscore his position as […]
September 24, 2020

Raf Simons and Miuccia Prada Make Civil Discourse Look Lovely

In the normal course of human events, it would have been the biggest show of the fashion season in Milan. Possibly the most anticipated show of […]
September 23, 2020

Is the New Guards Group the New Guard of Fashion?

Davide De Giglio is not your typical luxury fashion mogul. He does not wear a slickly tailored suit, possess an expensive M.B.A., hold court from the […]
July 31, 2020

Black Lives Matter and Italian Fashion

The designer Stella Jean wanted to make something clear about an impassioned letter she sent to Italian fashion’s governing body: “It’s not a protest,” she said. […]
July 17, 2020

Milan Has Some Reasons to Be Cheerful

There is nothing like a week of watching designer infomercials to make you long for the return of fashion shows IRL. Those sometimes infuriating, often perplexing, […]
June 11, 2020

When Is Fashion Week?

An Opinionated Guide to Fashion’s New Shape and Schedule What to watch, where to watch it, where to buy itand what the heck is going on. […]
March 4, 2020

The Fashion World, Upended by Coronavirus

PARIS — Twice a year, the luxury fashion houses of the world present their ready-to-wear clothing for the coming season. This creates an international traveling circus […]
September 10, 2018

6 Models to Watch This Season

A roundup of the most intriguing fresh faces — some making their runway debuts during the spring 2019 shows, others a few seasons in.
February 8, 2018

Unbuttoned: Fashion Week in the Wake of #MeToo: An Insider’s Guide

Advertisement Talk about fighting for eyeballs. Squeezed in between the Super Bowl and the Oscars, competing with the Olympics for attention, the first fashion month of […]
September 20, 2017

10 Things to Know About Roberto Cavalli’s New Creative Director

The newest mystery man on the Milan women’s wear scene is Paul Surridge, the little-known designer hired in May to rejuvenate Roberto Cavalli, the Florentine fashion […]