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Milan fashion week

MFW

With a dedicated menswear fashion week as well as womenswear, Milan fashion week (MFW) presents a massive program of runway shows, after parties and off-calendar events four times a year. With the aim of promoting Italy’s fashion talent to the world, Milan fashion week presents both the spring / summer and autumn (fall) / winter collections across any given year. Below you’ll find coverage of Milan fashion week 2012 and past years such as 2011.

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Milan fashion week coverage 2012

Trench coat highlights

Written by Daniel P Dykes on 13 May 2012

Whether you’re a fashioniser for whom spring has sprung or one for whom the autumn leaves have browned, it’s easy to weave a statement with metallic gold clothing. While this spring sees the look predominantly heighten many a dress, cool evenings and cooler days allow for the rare metallic trench coat to tell a story.

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Designer to watch: Jessica Choay

Written by Daniel P Dykes on 13 Mar 2012

Fashion weeks aren’t just a great way to discover new collections but also to discover new talent. In Milan we encountered designer Jessica Choay who designs what you might describe as ‘lingerie as outerwear’ without any lingerie in sight. Paradoxical? Read on to discover why.

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Jessica Choay A/W '12 campaign
Jessica Choay A/W '12 campaign
Jessica Choay A/W '12 campaign
Jessica Choay A/W '12 campaign
Jessica Choay A/W '12 campaign
Jessica Choay A/W '12 campaign
Jessica Choay A/W '12 campaign
Jessica Choay A/W '12 campaign

Albino’s architectonic fall

Written by Daniel P Dykes on 7 Mar 2012

There’s going to be a hell of a story to be told about fall 2012‘s voluminous motif with the best work, be it editorial of pictorial, needing to not just explore volume but to explain the reason for it. Here’s a simple reason: architecture, with more than a few designers telling us over the course of the past fashion weeks that their interest in volume…

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The Diplomat’s daughter: Bally

Written by Daniel P Dykes on 29 Feb 2012

Always razor sharp to the extent that at times it actually sports a hard edge, Bally’s fall / winter 2012 collection has an interesting point of inception. To craft the collection Bally Creative Directors Michael Herz and Graeme Fidler imagined they were designing a range that would appeal to the daughter of a diplomat. That in itself is right up Bally’s alley; diplomats’ daughters not…

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Giorgio Armani: easy chic

Written by Daniel P Dykes on 29 Feb 2012

Giorgio Armani was always going to be a designer to watch for fall 2012 as soon as the majority of Milan fashion week‘s labels and designers offered up collections of women’s fashion with a masculine bent. Armani is a master of relaxed tailoring and this men’s-come-women’s trend depends heavily upon both the technique of the cut and its femininity. Calling his latest autumn / winter…

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Byblos battles at MFW

Written by Daniel P Dykes on 28 Feb 2012

The models could have been naked at Byblos’ fall 2012 showing and I’m still not sure that the guests would have even noticed. Byblos’ catwalk was, you see, effectively under attack from a Milanese wind. So much so that the tent shook and the lights swayed to such an extent that some of the crowd, including the journalist sat next to me with her Dolce…

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