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Textile industry accelerating recovery to 2023
The industry closed the first quarter of 2022 with an acceleration thanks to exports increased to +46.2%. According to Bain & Company, post-Covid-19 recovery estimates improved. «Fashion has accepted the challenge of innovation», Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti stated at the launch of Milano Unica
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Dolce&Gabbana's Sicilian blockbuster
Return to the roots to celebrate the 10th anniversary of haute couture, which debuted in Taormina, with a mega show in Ortygia’s Piazza del Duomo amid citations to the brand's DNA and a parterre featuring Sharon Stone, Monica Bellucci, Mariah Carey and Kris Jenner. «Thanks to Italy, everything is possible», Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana explained
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Valentino's Rome
«It was a dialogue with the Maison and its founders, with what of them is inside me and what I gave back», Pierpaolo Piccioli explained. On the catwalk between Piazza di Spagna and Piazza Mignanelli in Rome he presented over 100 couture looks with an inclusive casting. Rewriting the brand's codes among roses, precious crystals, feathers and the ever-present red
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Fendi between East and West
«In this collection we looked at different fragments of cities, Kyoto, Paris and Rome», Kim Jones, creative director of womenswear at the Lvmh fashion house, stated. At the show, the Maison presented dresses in precious kimono fabrics made in Japan, Art Deco crystal gowns and tulle veils with maple leaf embroidery
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Gaultier à la Rousteing
From celebrating Madonna's bustier to reinterpreting iconic fragrances that became heels and even a dress. Balmain's Creative Director reinterpreted the archives of the historic Parisian fashion house for his one-off couture show. «The looks took 400 to 600 hours to make», he told
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Armani's cabaret pétillant
«The haute couture show must provoke, it must be something unprecedented», the Italian designer explained, returning to Paris after a season-long stop with a monumental collection of 91 looks interpreting a frivolous and rebellious elegance, among short tinsel dresses and velvet suits. And in the front row there was Delphine Arnault of Lvmh
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Dior’s arts and crafts
Lace, embroidery and elaborate patchwork shape a couture that is the quintessence of artisanal savoir-faire. "Our atelier is the world," Maria Grazia Chiuri, Creative Director for womenswear at the LVMH fashion house, explained, quoting the work of Ukrainian artist Olesia Trofymenko
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Balenciaga: «The new era of couture»
«With Demna everything is possible», Cédric Charbit, Ceo of the Kering Maison, explained in an exclusive interview with MFF. From the haute couture store opening in the historic George V Avenue location in Paris to the reinterpretation of heritage in order to speak to new generations
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The new Quadrilatero is born
«We want to expand to neighboring spaces», Emmanuel Conte, councilor for budget and real estate, explained to MFF. In 2022 Milan will have 84 million euros coming from rental income in the Galleria and surrounding areas. Dior and Gucci invest 5 million euros a year followed by Fendi, Armani and Tod's
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Portuguese seduction à la Max Mara
Poet Natália Correia, singer Amália Rodrigues, lenços de namorado do Minho embroidered with messages of love. For Resort 2023, the brand put on a show in Lisbon at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation between homages to local tradition and new sensuality. «A flame hidden under the embers,» Creative Director Ian Griffiths told MF
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Chanel's future
«We work to always be number one,» Bruno Pavlovsky, President of fashion, told MFF. After a year that closed at 15.6 billion dollars, he revealed his view on the metaverse, sustainability and the blockchain. As well as on betting on young people, his relationship with designer Virginie Viard and supporting the supply chain. «We will continue with further investments in Italy»
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Givenchy's America
Lvmh's brand brought menswear to the runway for the first time since the arrival of Matthew M. Williams, drawing inspiration from the designer's homeland, with California colors and Harlem decorativism. It also launched a men's jewelry collection. «I am happy to give an exclusive stage to men», he explained to MFF, «to be able to tell my overall perspective»
