On Thursday, the opening day of Milan fashion week of preview showings for next year’s warm weather fashion, short dresses, short skirts and short shorts showed up on almost every runway.
But in this round, the cropped look is more demure than daring. Ruffles and bubble shapes replace the clinging styles that often symbolize Made in Italy label.
Even Dolce&Gabbana, best known for their
Already hinted at on the winter runway, summer marks the return of the jacket, complete with its 1980’s powersuit shoulder padding.
Footwear looks like it’s stepping down from the platform heights of recent seasons, with a sensible heel at Prada and flat sandals at Armani.
Perhaps in an effort to combat the current grim economic mood, designers brighten up their palette, replacing staple black-and-white with colorful pink, yellow, blue and green.
Over the next five days, top
Giorgio Armani presented a bright and upbeat spring/summer 2010 collection, an apt response to speculation over succession at his Milan fashion house after the 75 year old designer’s recent bout with hepatitis.
The normally urban Armani went for a bright summer look with cheerful houndstooth prints and youthful short styles.
The collection featured lots of loose-fitting and comfortable pieces paired with more
Everything was short, even evening wear, which included loose shorts, or sparkly shorts under slightly shorter dresses.
Deep open V backs were ideal for showing off well-tanned backs, sometimes crisscrossed by strips of fabric.
Janet Jackson, spending the week in Milan ahead of a
A well-tanned Armani, dressed completely in black, waved to the crowd after the show before
“No purchases, no sales,” the designer told reporters after the show, answering speculation about succession at the fashion house after his illness.
“It is quite contemporary, a little bit nostalgic and very mysterious,” was how designer Miuccia Prada described her collection to reporters backstage after the much-applauded show.
On hand for one of the most sought after shows in town was tennis star
The Prada print this round is a series of photos from a 1960’s beach scene complete with deck chairs, umbrellas and people in
The latest Prada accessories include shoes and bags in see-through plastic. After many a season of models tottering and sometimes toppling on their ultrahigh platform shoes, the latest Prada collection sports a sensible heel.
“Platforms are dead — at least until next season,” the designer said.
It’s clear Moschino wants its Cheap and Chic line’s spring/summer 2010 women’s collection to be seen through the rose-colored lenses of daisy-shaped glasses. A cardboard pair was included in each invitation to its show.
Not to disappoint, the runway was filled with daisies, dainty and bold, prints and sunglasses. Oh, and there were big summer hats with oversized daisy petals forming the brim, among the many whimsical touches in the collection, which included also one necklace featuring a true-to-size gold banana on a chain, and another with oversized chili peppers.
The colors suggested an era when television was a newfangled contraption, idealized for the transition from black-and-white to color broadcasts: bold floral patterns, alternating with that small-screen classic black and white separates, alternating with multicolor panels or stripes in shades of blue, red, orange, yellow and pink, reminiscent of early television’s color stripes.
On the delicate end of the scale, a daisy print short pleated skirt was paired with a ruffle shirt accented by a thin yellow belt followed by a black-and-white
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