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Milan Fashion Week Spring Collections 2007 | News Coverage |
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 By Telegraph.co.uk, September 28, 2006
Carnaby Street is being re-born on the catwalks of Milan Fashion Week.
Mini skirts, Chelsea boots, platform shoes and psychedelic prints are the order of the day as Milanese designers embrace the once-famed Swinging London of the 1960s.
Forty years after Mary Quant fired the first broadside in the hemlines war, the thigh-high skirt is re-emerging as the look for spring/summer 2007.
With long hair ironed flat or caught in simple ponytails, the models are striding out on the catwalks, long greyhound legs flashing under thigh-high hemlines as a 21st century reincarnation of the King's Road "dolly birds" who once helped make London the world headquarters of the Sixties youthquake...more |
 By Sophie Hardach, MILAN, Reuters, September 28, 2006
Dolce & Gabbana proved their love for showgirl exuberance on Thursday with a collection of aggressive black corset dresses, buttocks-hugging skirts and sequined gowns in the colors of the rainbow.
A show that screamed sex and money entertained an audience that had felt mildly bored after a series of wearable, retro-inspired collections during Milan fashion week.
A metallic molded corset dress with exaggerated hips - think Marie Antoinette in the space age - and platform heels that caused several models to wobble dangerously were certainly not meant to be practical...more |
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 By Kate Millar and Dominique Schroeder, September 27, 2006
Italian designer Frida Giannini energetically revisited the 1960s for Gucci, while Antonio Marras' otherworldly romance had a timeless quality.
Upbeat optimism shone through at Gucci which has very short black A-line dresses, pepped up with criss-crossing bands of red and fuchsia silk, in store for spring-summer 2007.
Indeed, the designer even allowed the vivid colours, in both matte and gloss, to run along the legs of straight black pants, even to outline the waist or the pockets on short black skirts...more
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Times Online, September 29, 2006
How do the fashion pack cope with Milan fashion week when the thermometer hits 30 degrees celsius and all you've packed is 18 pairs of woolly tights, 10-ply cashmere and your winter boots? In my case it didn't matter, seeing as British Airways managed to lose half my luggage on the way to Milan (any fashionista's worst nightmare come true) and four days later, I still haven't got through to the customer care line to find out where it is - BA press office, are you taking note? Still, other more dedicated journalists (for which, read fashion victims) didn't let the searing sunshine deter them. Yesterday, French Vogue's fashion director Emmanuelle Alt was spotted head to toe in black...more |
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