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Given the economic gloom, safe, long-term investments are definitely in fashion. And designers are banking on the overcoat, which made a big comeback on the Milan runways during menswear fashion week, which ended Tuesday.
Milan fashion designers are offering an escape route for next winter.
Gentlemen, things are going to get serious next fall and winter.
Milan fashion designers are sticking to the traditional and familiar in their menswear collection for next winter.
What better way to lift spirits than throw a big party.
"Your slip is showing," used to be mom's warning before you went out the door.
Miuccia Prada is on a fashion sabbatical from the real world, taking refuge in a fantasy land of comic strips, yesteryear toys and fictitious characters.
Milan fashion designers are investing heavily in gold, despite the recent, unexpected dip in gold prices.
With a tip of the hat — raffia that is — Milan designers salute old-style summer elegance, as they preview next year's warm weather styles.
As Milan's fashion week wound up, some themes for next winter have become apparent.
As the menswear preview winter showings wind down it is clear that designers are not in the mood for sports.
Italian designers seemed to have taken time out this season from their trademark black sexy look: Loose and light styles in bright color promised a carefree, casual summer — a break from the current economic gloom.
Even before the Milan Fashion Week winds down, with Giorgio Armani closing the six-day event on Monday, it is clear the message for spring-summer 2011 is color, color and more color.
Like many of the other designers showing during the current Milan Fashion Week, Marni, in her collection presented Sunday, dared to paint her styles in bold color.
Aside from bold color, the biggest news off the spring-summer 2011 is the skirt, or better yet. The hemline.
The Italian designers showing their "wears" for the Spring-Summer 2011 are playing it safe.
Italian designers are bursting out into color for the spring-summer 2011, relegating black to the bleachers where the fashion crowd sits in dreary unison.
A snappy Gucci collection opened the Milan fashion week and set the mood for the spring-summer 2011 — Italian style.
What happened to sex in the city — Milan, that is?
The Sunday afternoon show was about to begin. Sicilian, Sartorial, Sensual appeared on the screen at the end of the runway, which, until then, had projected scenes from the Dolce & Gabbana workshop of white-coated cutters and seamstresses working closely with designers Domenico and Stefano to put together their latest winter collection.
Marni opened the last big day of the shortened fall-winter 2010-2011 Milan fashion week with a highbrow show that was more about workmanship than wearability.
These parsimonious days fashion trends often start with the accessories, usually the least expensive and therefore most sellable items in a collection.
Fur, leather and wool dominated the runways Friday on the second day of Milan fall-winter 2010 fashion week, packed tight with shows as designers scrambled to get their work in while top editors are still in town.
"Where is Anna Wintour?" asked a message across one runway Thursday on the first day of Milan's winter womenswear fashion week. It was the question of the moment as fashionistas feared the superstar editor would sit out much of the festivities because of her tight schedule.
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