Right when you were thinking one could drown in all the laudable sustainable menswear on display in Milan, along comes Dolce & Gabbana to wake the whole city up with some moda alla Machine Gun Kelly on Saturday.
The brothers Caten returned to their Canadian roots this season with a DSquared2 collection ideal for Deep North dandies and hipster trappers presented Friday, the opening day of the Milan menswear season.
"We only knit what we know,” explained Alessandro Sartori as he presented his new modular mode collection for the house of Zegna, to kick of this weekend's Milan menswear season.
The Council of Fashion Designers of America has released its official New York Fashion Week lineup for February, which sees a host of new and big-name designers set to showcase their latest collections in the Big Apple.
Missing Armani, the Milan fashion week scheduled on January 14-18 will feature 16 physical shows and 18 digital ones. Among the events, a unique installation in homage to Virgil Abloh at the Louis Vuitton store.
According to a study by consulting firm PwC presented in Florence on Monday, Italy’s fashion market is expected to be worth €81.3 billion in 2023, up from €78 billion this year, still penalised by reduced tourism.
Finally, a proper actual live runway show of re-defined masculine menswear in Pitti, staged late Wednesday inside a Pucci family Palazzo in Florence, courtesy of gender-bender designer Ervin Latimer.
The Italian designer, whose label generates 80% of its sales in the USA, staged the first show of the year with a special event held at the historic Paszkowski Café in Florence, during the Pitti Uomo trade show.
Owing to the pandemic, most labels are opting for digital events, but the fashion week will feature 17 physical shows, according to the official calendar which now no longer includes Amiri and VTMNTS.
Designer JW Anderson has called off his planned Milan runway show for next weekend and will instead unveil his next menswear collection digitally.
The fashion label will pay tribute to its founder Pierre Cardin, who passed away on December 29 2020, with a major show on the outskirts of Paris, at the Le Bourget Air and Space Museum, scheduled on January 28.
Italian fashion house Giorgio Armani said Tuesday it would cancel its upcoming January shows in Milan and Paris due to rising Covid cases in Europe.
Paris Haute Couture Week will be held on January 24-27 with Yanina Couture as new guest member, while Balenciaga has dropped out of the calendar after making a stunning comeback last season.
Amiri, Bianca Saunders, Doublet, EgonLab, Kidsuper, Rains, VTMNTS and Bluemarble will debut on the Parisian runways at a much-rejuvenated menswear fashion week, scheduled from January 18-23.
The provisional line-up for London Fashion Week that runs from 18 to 22 February has been released with details of which labels will show physically and which will unveil their collections digitally at the hybrid event.
