Milan Fashion Week: TOP 5 Shows

Milan Fashion Week 2016 Spring Summer come to an end, unfortunately! It’s been a week of new beginnings and 2016 fashion trends in Milan. Peter Dundas, Massimo Giorgetti, and Arthur Arbesser made their debuts at Roberto Cavalli, Emilio Pucci, and Iceberg, respectively. Finally, there’s a changing of the guard in a city that has often been criticized and we don’t know why…but this final milan fashion week spring 2016 final report, will shutdown your computer with the elegant and colorful ideas from the most famous italian fashion designers and it will remain in time! Still, take your next hour to enjoy the Best 5 Milan Shows of Milan Fashion Week 2016 Spring Summer!

5-Roberto Cavalli

Peter Dundas has a reputation as a classy designer. In his varied career, he’s proven his talents at Emanuel Ungaro (doing haute Parisian), Revillon (fur), and Emilio Pucci (sexy rock-chick dressing). Now Dundas has circled back to Roberto Cavalli, the house where he began his career—and where, incidentally, Balmain’s Olivier Rousteing was once his assistant. Over the past couple of years, the competition among labels to capture the imagination of a new generation has resulted in a remarkable changing of the guard.

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4-DsQuared2

Dean and Dan Caten‘s new collection for women picked up where their Spring ’16 show for men left off: at the beach. Waves splashed on the backdrop of the otherwise stark set and out strutted Mariacarla Boscono in a cutout maillot and hip-slung boy pants, a tangle of colorful climbing ropes harnessing her torso. This hasn’t been a big week for bathing suits, but the Catens gave us several different varieties, from sporty one-pieces to slinky little bikinis strung up with crystals. Sexy has more or less gone out of fashion in Milan, but not chez Dsquared2.

3-Versace

Everything came together for Donatella Versace this season, from the call to arms anthem of Violet and friends on the soundtrack to her diverse model casting. (Hello, Raquel Zimmermann, how we’ve missed you!) But the real revelation atVersace’s Friday night show was the broad offering of clothes. In the mix: de rigeur sexy little slashed and knotted dresses, the sharpest tailoring of the week, and a gotta-have-it army jacket patchworked with a collage of eye-popping animal prints. Donatella’s got accessories on her mind this season, too.

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2-Dolce & Gabbana

If Italian fashion is really in the first stages of a renaissance, then props must go toDomenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who’ve been flying the flag for la modafor years. Their new collection was a love letter to postwar Italy—printed sundresses, movie star sheaths, borrowed-from-your-lover silk pj’s, and souvenir bags—with a social media spin. Models posed for selfies that were instantly posted on LED screens above the runway and on the company’s official social media feeds. It beats a postcard!

1-Gucci

Alessandro Michele has reversed Gucci’s fortunes, and reoriented the general direction of fashion while he was at it. Not bad for a guy hardly anyone even knew a year ago. The brand’s Monte Napoleone boutique was packed all week with shoppers eager to pick up a piece of his new vision for the house. A savvy extension to his first show, the new collection was full of joyous color and pattern, one sensational vintage-feel dress after another, accessories for days, and nods not just to Gucci’s heritage, but also to other Made-in-Italy icons. It’ll be absolutely irresistible to his converts.