Once again, Palazzo Acerbi served as the quintessentially Milanese backdrop for Elisabetta Franchi’s show. This time, however, she invited her guests to step inside her world. Captivated by the aura of mystery around what is known as “the Devil’s House,” she sought to honor its history while envisioning her own future, transforming it into the...
Unveiled as ‘Act II’ of an ongoing narrative arc, Giuseppe Di Morabito’s second full scale show, ‘The Fall of Icarus,’ continued the emotional excavation that began last season. If ‘Alone with the Stars’ looked outward, into the future of AI and technological acceleration, this new chapter looked inward: to craft, childhood, memory, and myth. “We’re...
At Rentrayage, Erin Beatty has been fine-tuning her creative approach to fall more in tune with both retail and production demands. “We’re in a really difficult economy and the stores are just too hesitant about anything that feels too out of the box,” she explained on a recent video call. “With the upcycling it’s always...
The collections at Loro Piana’s presentation were much more interestingly sited than in the men’s and women’s lookbooks. Shown in the galleries of the recently reopened Palazzo Citterio, their colors, textures and silhouettes were set within walls hung with works by Boccioni, Picasso, Carrà, Morandi, Modigliani and more. It was quite gutsy, and borderline presumptuous,...
