A paisley skirt, a floral top and a paint splattered clutch: there’s a lesson in successful print clashing if ever there was one.

You could go all out on clashing a print like this with other prints, or adding bold accessories… but there’s really no requirement to. A colourful, printed coat is statement enough of its own.

Skirts over pants: a combination that went well out of favour for years and yet has slowing been clawing its way back. Caroline Issa dabbled in the notion in Milan, a cut-away dress hem making it far more acceptable and interesting. What also worked – especially accounting for the weather in Milan at the time – were the autumnal tones of sienna and maroon. Plus…

Though there’s much owing to a tall and slender model-boy physique, this look remains a simple and effective one that can still be pulled off by most. A pair of skim cut jeans, boots, cool waved men’s hairstyle and a bomber jacket are the foundations to build upon for an off duty men’s look that works across seasons.

It’s a simple and effortless outfit, but feminine; a deviation from the oft-seen off-duty model uniform of skinny jeans and boots. Ming Xi was spotted complimenting a plain black circle skirt with a slouchy knit, fur coat, and shiny oxblood-red pilgrim shoes.

Sometimes the best way to compliment a fashion statement is by contrasting it. A printed pant suit that’s so relaxed it borders pyjama-esque thus needs something a little glamorous to contradict it; a bold jewelled necklace or a pair of stiletto-heeled ankle boots, perhaps. In donning one such relaxed pant suit of head-to-toe abstract print – this one being by Ukranian designer Yasya Minochkina –…

You can never take the tomboy out of the girl. It is either the way she talks, walks, acts or dresses, there will always be a little something in her persona that shines through. Take for example this street style look taken in Milan. She is wearing a baseball cap but she was able to make it look very chic by wearing an outfit that…

Showing the increasing popularity and marketability of the men’s component of London fashion week, London Collections: Men, Burberry have today announced that their most recent Milan Fashion Week men’s catwalk was also their last. After more than a decade of showing in Milan, they’re setting their eyes on their natural home of London for their spring 2014 menswear show.

View all the photos of the MGSM autumn (fall) / winter 2013 showing at Milan fashion week.

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While models look gorgeous on the runways, we love them just as much when they’re off duty and walking around town in an ensemble they put together themselves. Take this off-duty model we spotted outside the Dolce and Gabbana fall / winter 2013 show in Milan. This street style look simply put is a mix of glam and grunge but what truly stands out is…

We’ve been from the edgy depths of London to the sophisticated heights of Milan; and in the spirit of a tradition started only a week ago (in which I rounded up a wishlist of 10 covetable looks from London) it seems only fair to give Milan fashion week the same treatment. Having seen too many amazing shows to count, I’m certain this list will be…

View all the photos of the beauty & make-up at the Cristiano Burani autumn (fall) / winter 2013 showing at Milan fashion week.

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View all the photos from backstage at the Cristiano Burani autumn (fall) / winter 2013 showing at Milan fashion week.

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View all the photos of the beauty & make-up at the Emporio Armani autumn (fall) / winter 2013 showing at Milan fashion week.

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View all the photos from backstage at the Emporio Armani autumn (fall) / winter 2013 showing at Milan fashion week.

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It might only have been the second last day of Milan fashion week‘s autumn 2013 showings, but it was a quiet one. Despite the morning’s Armani show, many of the fashion industry’s familiar faces had already departed the rain soaked city in preparation of today’s start of Paris fashion week. There was still street style to be snapped, however, and you can see a few…

A literal interpretation of “Alice in Wonderland” lead to quite the magical and sumptuous fall / winter 2013 collection coming from Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi. Exploring a full spectrum of heart patterns and playing card motifs to accent the 1940s hourglass shapes and menswear inspired jackets, the designer duo was apparently seeking “the ironic aspect of the fairy tale”.

Overabundance of elements is a notion that was never strange to Roberto Cavalli, who just happens to meet the highest form of success whenever crowning the excess. The designer’s fall / winter 2013 collection, keen on emphasizing a different type of technological approach, gathered its inspiration from the baroque artwork of the sixteenth century.

It takes enough drama and extravagance served in extra-large doses to get one to really long after some quiet exquisiteness, the kind that’s deeply anchored in a sense of reality. Steering away from all the exaggeration, Peter Dundas envisioned a clean, sexy and tough collection for Emilio Pucci, referencing muses like Angie Bowie, Anita Pallenberg and Britt Ekland. The fall / winter 2013 line up celebrating the…

Romantic, luxurious, sharing a piece of Italian history, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana’s fall / winter 2013 collection drew inspiration from the mosaics of Sicily’s Cathedral of Monreale and the striking work of art translated beautifully to an array of A-line and hourglass silhouettes, adorned with religious figures and other significant Catholic Church motifs turned glamorous.