Milan (Italy)

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. […]
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 […]
January 15, 2018

Ms. Fendi and Ms. Prada and All Their Baggage

Advertisement MILAN — Founded here in 1913 as a luggage purveyor to the local carriage trade, Fratelli Prada probably would not have become a synonym for […]
December 6, 2017

Gucci Moves Its Fine Jewelry Line Upmarket

Advertisement MILAN — These are flush times for Gucci, the 96-year-old house that in recent years has become fashion’s all-conquering luxury brand. And amid booming sales, […]
September 22, 2017

Milan Gets a New Soundtrack

MILAN — Michael Nyman, the 73-year-old British minimalist musician, cross-disciplinary artist and video documentarian, has a new muse: Milan. He moved to the city in November, […]
June 20, 2017

Bringing Social Media Stars Onto the Runway, and Hearing Them Roar

MILAN — There is an ancient (O.K., recent) wisdom carved into the Fashion Week Commandments, handed down from the mount: To woo the millennial, you must […]
September 7, 2016

Everything You Need to Know About This Crazy, Mixed-Up, (Maybe) Very Good Season

Gather ye memories while ye may: Fashion week as it has been for the last 50-plus years may, finally, be over. This is not crying wolf […]