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Milan Fashion Week | Fashion News, Notes & Photos |
Edited By
Senay TOPCUOGLU
Editor-in-Chief |
A model displays a creation by Trend Les Copains during the Fall/Winter
2006-2007 show at Milan Fashion Week, February 24, 2006.
REUTERS/Alessia Pierdomenico
Models present creations as part of Roberto Cavalli's Fall/Winter 2006-2007 women's collection during Milan Fashion Week, February 25, 2006.
Left:
AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, Right:
REUTERS/Daniele La Monaca |
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Milan's Fashion Mix of Bygone Charm, Sexy Cuts |
| From a bygone era of Victorian charm, to tantalising geometric cut-outs and the riding chic of jackets and breeches, Milan fashion shows zapped the style codes.
Next winter heralds romantic dresses at Gianfranco Ferre who used crumpled silk and gilt buttons to create a 2006-07 ready-to-wear collection with an air of costume drama about it...more |
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Hilary Alexander Reports from Milan Fashion Week |
| The Italian fashion house of Versace, once renowned for its "more is never enough" fashion formula, has switched to a pared-down approach. The collection for next autumn/winter, shown at Milan Fashion Week last night, was notable for its lack of excess. There was no jewellery, and the over-the-top crystals and sequins that once turned the Versace catwalk into a blinding spectacle of "bling"...more |
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Milan Gets Star Treatment as Fashion Goes Royal Chic |
| When Jennifer Lopez sashayed into Dolce & Gabbana's catwalk show on Thursday, she was met with whoops and roaring applause as even the front rows -- packed with top buyers and the cream of the fashion press -- stood to get a glimpse of the pop diva. But Lopez, in a figure-hugging dress, was all but eclipsed by the rich gold embroidery and sumptuous empire-line brocades that filled a collection inspired by Napoleon and his time...more |
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Milan Fashions Switch From Sweet to Tough |
| Whether a lesson learned after a particularly bitter winter, or a reaction to the super sweet look of recent seasons, the fall winter 2006 collections currently showing on the Milan catwalk are about tough ladies ready to fight the elements.
Minimalist styles, fashioned in coarse wool and fur and painted in an urban palette, replace the colorful, lacy frills of last winter, which at times turned women into acquiescent Barbie dolls...more |
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Dolce & Gabbana |
| From a romp in the hay last year to a very regal invitation for autumn: Dolce & Gabbana continue to dress - as much as path - the way for the icons of today so this season they looked to Empress Josephine for inspiration. At their theatre, the invite gave a clue with the camp crest - but the romantic refined Napoleonic theme you could not have predicted.
The black stage, a polished Plexiglas, and the ornate catwalk unspun like a cog in a music box - indeed the wind-up...more |
MILAN FASHION WEEK |
| See all the photos just in from Milan, plus the latest from New York and London here |
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