Milan Fashion Week Honors Quiet Luxury: A Recap
One of fashion’s most anticipated weeks has come to an end in Milan. Showcasing the most luxurious Italian fashion houses, this week celebrated the art of Italian fashion, and all the eclectic street style and creativity that comes with it.
Here is a quick recap of what fashion had to offer us last week, and which houses took the spotlight.
Fendi’s dynamic layering
Fendi’s artistic director Kim Jones took inspiration from the Italian fashion house’s heritage through fun prints and dynamic layering. In the show’s notes, Jones said “I was looking at 1984 in the Fendi archives… The sketches reminded me of London during that period: the Blitz Kids, the New Romantics, the adoption of workwear, aristocratic style, Japanese style.” This collection also featured variations of thigh-high glossy boots, and leather, and certainly did not shy away from creative knitwear designs.
Versace’s chic wildness
Versace took a rebellious stance this fashion week. “The clothes take the codes of contemporary formal tailoring and disrupt them with cut, drape, and embellishment,” said Donatella Versace. The designer also explained the wildness of the collection—with innovative fabrics, pieces like the collared jackets and button shirts flourished with the house’s iconic gold patterns we all know and adore.
Tod’s implements the maxi-clutch trend
The maxi clutch trend—also seen all over Milan’s street style—was featured throughout Tod’s runway, combined with different styles of trench coats and asymmetrical designs. The brand’s creative director Matteo Tamburini made sure to enhance the idea of quiet luxury within the collection, showing that luxurious pieces can also be worn on a day to day basis.
Bottega Veneta celebrates fashion’s italian dna
Taking viewers on a journey with extraordinary forms and designs, Bottega Veneta honored its Italian DNA. With immaculate tailoring and a chic aesthetic overall, the fashion house showed us, like Tod’s, that everyday outfits—whether to wear to the office or run errands—can, and should be luxurious too.
Milan Fashion Week showed us the power of quiet luxury in its most elegant, chic, and most importantly, Italian, form.
With Fendi’s dynamic layering all the way to Tod’s strong implementation of the maxi clutch trend, this week had global fashion lovers dreaming of their next Italian-inspired outfits. With a wrap on Milan Fashion Week, what does Paris Fashion Week have in store for us this season?
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