Milan Fashion Week SS23 Has Arrived!
Milan Fashion week kicked off today with what everyone is calling a “sense of renewal” by almost getting back to its pre COVID usual rundown. Each season new designers make their runway debut and this season appears to be the most diverse to date, yay!
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With Bally making its Milan runway debut with Rhuigi Villaseñor as its head designer and Maximilian Davis as the new creative director of the newly named Ferragamo.
Big house names kicked off with the likes of Kim Jones has had a busy fashion month, making his debut at NYFW with a celebration of Fendi’s iconic Baguette Bag in a lavish runway show in collaboration with American royalty, Marc Jacobs. Now, in his homeland, Jones set the mood for his soft SS23 collection set against polished concrete floors and painted steel beams.
The collection was a study on how balance, fluidity and color create perfect structure. Layering was key, silky asymmetrical tops and dresses overflowing floor-length pants, sheer tops over bralettes all in matching neutral tones with the occasional pop of color. Dresses and wrapped pants hunted to the body’s natural silhouette allowing for freedom, only to be pulled in by wrapped waist belts, asymmetrical slits and draping distorted deconstructed said silhouette.
Jones presented his take on simple elegance. Achieved through the delicate act of tucking in a tank into trousers layered with an apron-like skirt. Fendi’s exploration on how to adapt functionality and femininity.
The neutral tone palette let the elegance of the clothes take center stage. Colors that accompanied the almost logo-less silk and wool collection. The beauty of the collection ultimately lies in the simplicity of the designs and the complexity of the details; the slits, the elaborated waist bows.
Glenn Martens not only resurrected Diesel but took it to the next level, quickly becoming fashion's favorite high-street experimental baby. Martens has made a case for denim as the ultimate high-fashion textile of choice. Diesel is undoubtedly a brand injected by pop-culture, youth and subversive undeniable sexiness. I mean Martens delivered exactly this as guests received a glass buttplug as invitations. Then, in bigger-than-life continuity Diesel kicked off the show as models walked through the world's largest inflatable sculpture in the world-yes, it is even Guinness Book of Records approved.
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Denim, denim and more denim came down the runway as models walked to the beat of a distorted breath. Creating suspense and breaking away from the usual atmosphere, the collection was an ongoing parade of how denim can be used and the many forms it can take.
Martens came in full force as he presented 71 looks all which had a life of their own interconnected by denim. Full length coats, silver jackets, metalized-like belt micro skirts, deconstructed leather jackets, combination of lace and sportswear, latex thigh high boots, glittery-plastic tops, cargo everything, distressed denim, military camouflage prints, animal texture, cowboy boots, neon chiffon and plastic coated finishing touches. Each look offered so much you couldn't take your eyes away, setting the bar for MFW really high.
*don't miss the accessories! The 1DR bag, belts and all-silver jewelry.