The final day of the Milan menswear shows unfurled in a botanical dream. The beauty of the hidden and private parks and gardens that set the stage for the last day of top shows were simply among some of the best locations ever. Giorgio Armani Spring/Summer 2020 menswear show in Milan. Photos by Alessandro Garofalo for NOWFASHION.Giorgio Armani moved away from his eponymous Teatro designed by...

MILAN—From the industrial wasteland stage at Zegna to the plastic bottle-filled sea ceiling at Marni... Milan’s Men’s Fashion Week, if anything, reminded us all of the damage man has inflicted on this planet. Marni Spring/Summer 2020 menswear show in Milan. Photo by Gio Staiano for NOWFASHION.But in an ocean of vibrant prints and weather-resistant ensembles, how much of it can actually...

Forging ties and collaborations between fashion houses and iconic, but unrelated, companies and names is still on the rise in this business. The continuous research of the next and the new, and the overproduction of umpteenth collections, pushes companies into forced and unexpected marriages. Etro Spring/Summer 2020 menswear show in Milan. Photo by Alessandro Garofalo for NOWFASHION.Is it also...

Magliano, the brand founded in 2016 by rising star Luca Magliano, uses grit, irony, realism, and satire to captivate an audience and promote its name. And this Spring/Summer 2020 men’s collection was no exception.  Luca Magliano at his Spring/Summer 2020 menswear show in Milan. Photo by Gio Staiano for NOWFASHION.Case in point: its muse is salt and pepper-haired model Toni Pandolfi whose...

Giorgio Armani ushered in the 2020 Summer Olympics by presenting the official EA7 Emporio Armani uniforms that will debut at the Tokyo games. Emporio Armani Spring/Summer 2020 menswear show in Milan. Photo by Guillaume Roujas for NOWFASHION.The show closed as 20 Olympic and 9 Paralympic Team Italy athletes paraded down the runway wearing night blue tracksuits. The tracksuits were adorned with...

Florence, Italy — Pitti Uomo, the most prominent menswear event in the world, is an arena where peacocks fly, as they say.  Men in striking fashions, who strut their stuff, fan about, waiting to get their picture taken. Emil Levin. Photo: Courtesy of PR.On the penultimate day, emerging from the crowd on a motorized wheelchair, dressed in dandy made-to-measure, was perhaps the most striking bird...

Since Alessandro Sartori rejoined Zegna, the brand has been on the hunt for Milan’s industrial architectural treasures as the backdrop for its fashion shows. Ermenegildo Zegna Spring/Summer 2020 menswear show in Milan. Photo by Guillaume Roujas for NOWFASHION.Sartori – who returned to Zegna after his tenure at Berluti – chose the former Falk Iron and Steel mill in Sesto San Giovanni, just north...

In a lot of ways, Pitti Uomo has eclipsed Milan’s Men’s Fashion Week.  This is due, in large part, to the fair and its organizers’ ability to purvey a strong identity year after year, achieved through statement events (some projects that shine more than others, but nevermind) and a clear vision and point of view.  Milan, spearheaded by Camera Moda has dimmed, mired by a format that is no longer...

Florence, Italy — Washington D.C. is 7000 km to the west of Italy – and Beijing is another 8000 km to the east, but the cold war between the US and China over trade is expected to hit the fashion industry here like the perfect storm.  Pronounce's Spring/Summer 2020 show in Florence as Pitti Uomo's Guest Nation China special event. Photo by NOWFASHION.According to industry leaders selling and...

Then the rain came. After two days of soaring temperatures and sunshine, Monday morning in London began as it all too often does; with cloudy skies and bad-tempered traffic jams, torrents of rain and flailing umbrellas. And instead of the weekend’s sun-kissed, open-air venues, Samuel Ross dragged his audience into the depths of an old printing works-turned-nightclub complex.A-Cold-Wall*...

These are difficult times, in many parts of Britain, for those who’ve come here from other countries. Not that you’d know it from the menswear schedule, which kicked off with Bulgaria-born Kiko Kostadinov and ended with a show by Chinese designer Feng Chen Wang. LFWM may well have started life under a banner of enthusiastic patriotism – but these days, as the country at large veers towards...

There was a time when the London menswear shows lent heavily on the heritage of Savile Row to propel them into the spotlight and give them credibility. This was also at about the same time we laughably didn’t think men were too interested in clothes or fashion. But times have changed and now it’s not the Savile Row names one sees on the schedule to reinforce relevance, but the designers and...

Perhaps it’s because it’s the Spring/Summer 2020 shows – with emphasis on the 2020 part – that the menswear collections this season felt for the most part fresh and new. It will soon be a new decade after all. Designers pushed themselves to explore new ground, open new chapters, and create worlds that were personal to them, the result of which means the era of the per usual...

Over the past two years, the student scene at fashion week has been gaining momentum. Where once London Fashion Week was a stomping ground only for Central Saint Martins MA students to take a real-life step into the industry, now they’ve got Westminster University hot on their tail.  San Kim's collection at the University of Westminster MA Spring/Summer 2020 menswear show in London. Photos by...

The actor Riz Ahmed swayed the afternoon away with great enthusiasm at Nicholas Daley’s Spring/Summer 2020 show this weekend. The sounds of the award-winning jazz group Sons of Kemet spread through the 12th century-built St Mary-at-Hill church and soon Ahmed was not the only one on his feet: everyone was dancing.Backstage at the Nicholas Daley Spring/Summer 2020 menswear show in London. Photo...