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New voices, familiar roots: Milan Fashion Week in transition for HW24

While London Fashion Week was dominated by young, creative talent, Milan Fashion Week once again held on to the old guard. Although Glenn Martens' democratic approach at Diesel, with its thousands of virtual guests with backstage passes, injected the first day of Milan Fashion Week with a touch of innovation and change. The remaining events,...

Retail |In Pictures

Diesel opens store dedicated to its 1DR bag

Italian fashion brand Diesel has opened its first store dedicated to its 1DR bag in Milan, adjacent to the Diesel Flagship store in San Babila. The store, which will be open for a year, has been designed to be experienced as a multisensory art concept to offer an immersive “1DR Land” environment rather than a traditional retail store. The 560...

Retail |In Pictures

British retailer End. opens first international store

Luxury British retailer End., which has been expanding its physical retail footprint across the UK with recent openings in Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow, has unveiled its first international store in Milan. End. Milano, located at Via Mercanti 21 in the “cultural heart of Milan” is described by the brand as its most ambitious concept to...

Retail

Fratelli Rossetti: new flagship store in Milan part of retail expansion

Italian luxury shoe house Fratelli Rossetti has opened a new flagship store in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping centre in the heart of Milan. In addition to locations on Via Montenapoleone and Corso Magenta, the opening of a third Milan shop shows the brand’s investment in brick and mortal retail. The interior of the new...

RetailFeatured

The loss of American tourists forces European luxury brands to think local

Each summer, come July and August, outbound Parisians, Milanese and Florentines tend to flock to their respective coasts for some weeks of respite from the urban heat, while visiting Americans linger in their empty cities, take in the cultural reverence and most of all, they shop. In 2018, nearly 18 million Americans visited EU countries with...

Fashion

CNMI and Parsons discuss diversity and education at event in Milan

Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana has confirmed its global leading role in the promotion of positive and effective changes across the fashion industry. In keeping with its continuous involvement in the creation of a stimulant dialogue among the players of the sector aimed at defining and reaching more and more ambitious goals, CNMI is glad to...

Culture

Milan gets its first Denim School

Milan attracts fashion students from all over the world, thanks to prominent schools such as the Marangoni Institute and the Domus Academy. Now, the city has become even more attractive for those looking to pursue a career in the fashion industry, as it now hosts the first Italian school entirely dedicated to denim and jeans. Launched this week,...

Business

Mayhoola for Investments to float 25 percent of Valentino

London - Mayhoola for Investments, the Qatari owner of Italian fashion house Valentino, is reportedly set to launch an initial public offering (IPO) of the company sometime in the latter half of 2018. The Qatari investors aim to float at least 25 percent of Valentinos shares offer on Milan's main market, reported Reuters early Thursday morning....

Fashion

Tommy Hilfiger heads to Milan for Spring 2018

London - After hosting TommyNow, otherwise known as See Now, Buy Now fashion shows in New York, Los Angeles, and London, Tommy Hilfiger is set to stage its next show in Milan. The PVH held fashion brand is set to close Milan Fashion Week next spring with its experiential runway show. The traveling fashion show is said to underline the brand's...

Fashion

Italian streetwear label makes 'dream' New York Fashion Week debut

Top-flight American talent may have deserted New York Fashion Week this season, but it's still the dream for at least one up-and-coming Italian designer who made his Big Apple debut Friday. GCDS -- aka "God Can't Destroy Streetwear" -- unveiled a fun, flirty fantasy inspired by Truman Capote's novel "The Swans of Fifth Avenue" on the second day...

Fashion

UK police arrest suspect in Italy model kidnap

British police on Wednesday arrested the brother of a man accused of an extraordinary abduction of a young British model in Italy, following a request from the Italian authorities. "Officers... this morning arrested the brother of Lukasz Pawel Herba in connection with the kidnapping of Chloe Ayling," the National Crime Agency said in a...

Fashion

Milan laughs while Rome cries ahead of Milan Fashion Week

While rays of sun warm the elegant marble monuments on Rome's skyline, Milan lies under grey crowds heavy with pollution. But beyond the blue skies the eternal city is battling crises on several fronts, while its northern rival has become the nerve centre of Italy, attracting not only record numbers of tourists but entrepreneurs and foreign...