While Paris officially kicks off the last leg of the Fashion Week Calendar (watch this space for editor Noelle Loh’s upcoming show reports), Milan offered some great fashion moments for its brazen and daring outings. Imran Jalal counts the ways the designers rocked the Fall/Winter ’16 shows.
Call him anti-social media, but MSGM’s creative director Massimo Giorgetti’s blanket ban on using Instagram for his show might have been the smartest move to get all eyes on the clothes – polka dots, puffer skirts, lacquered lace and all. Of course, it was hard to resist the request, and posts from the show did appear soon after the show. Nonetheless, it was a refreshing reminder for the guests to see the clothes with their own eyes and not through a filter, view finder or Snapchat.
What an outing it was. After seasons of toned-down collections, Miuccia got her groove back with a collection that was part art show, part visual feast. There were the surrealist Christophe Chemin-designed prints on the clothes. Then there were the gotta-buy-it accessories, from the corset to the sailor boy hats and the bags attached to the necklaces.
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Most Asians will be wary of trying on such an Oriental look, but the qipao-inspired designs at Gucci are serious game-changers. Printed with antique Italian paintings, trimmed with fur or swathed with intricate beadwork, the look is more youthful clubber than restaurant waitress.
You can count on Jeremy Scott to put on a show. Remember the car wash set-up last season? The drama this season came in the form of burn marks, smokes (a skirt literally released foggy clouds as the model walked) and Baroque-inspired designs (cue the corset made up of a life-sized crystal chandelier). The accessories were equally statement making: Chandelier earrings, were made up of, you guessed it, mini chandeliers.
How do you give a been-there-done-to-death beauty look an update? For Fendi, makeup maestro Peter Philips gave it a rainbow meets colour-blocking update. Models like Kendall Jenner walked out the runway with eyes lined with plums, greens and yellows for a look that screams fashion Coachella.
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