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MILAN FASHION WEEK SO FAR...

DAY 1

New York had the glamour factor and London had the banging parties, but Milan fashion week is proving to be something of an education.
And the first piece of homework for journalists when we get back home is to look up Yves Saint Laurent’s famous collection from 1965, since its centrepiece, the Mondrian dress, seems to be a massive influence for Miuccia Prada. When one dress with wide black checks and splashes of primary colour went down the catwalk you could almost see a hundred journalists furiously scribbling down ‘cubism’ and ‘modernism’ and ‘YSL’ in perfect unison. Familiarise yourself with this classic picture people, I’ve a feeling it’s going to be everywhere!


YSL's original 1965 'Mondrian' dress and the Prada catwalk for A/W 11


Next on the agenda is manners and decorum. It seems the Karl Lagerfeld is suggesting we all start wearing bibs (surely as an industry veteran he’d notice that barely anything gets eaten at fashion week?). Naturally, this being Fendi and fashion being fashion these bibs were made of fur. Obviously that’s going to make eating a bit messy but since fur was absolutely everywhere on the catwalks and shows no sign of going away as a dominant trend you might as well attach it to everything humanly possible...



A fur bib on the Fendi catwalk

Still, fur is going to get a serious run for its money from snakeskin in Autumn/Winter 11, and judging by the confused look on a lot of faces as the likes of Gucci and Prada (we’re very surprised at the usually so restrained Miuccia) sent skirts and jackets entirely composed of loud, glossy snake prints down the runway, no one is quite sure what to make of it. Prada gave a stab at making it wearable with neutral socks and a quirky blouse that rendered the look kooky rather than tacky, but how to pull off a skin-tight turquoise snakeskin pencil skirt without the aid of Gucci’s glossy stylings is anyone’s guess. Definitely the trickiest trend we’re going to face next season...


Snakeskin at Gucci (left) and Prada (right)

And finally, D&G might not have provided much on the education front, but they certainly had us using our brains, mainly to try and decode what on earth was written all over all their brightly coloured tights and tube dresses. The vibrant yellows and oranges made a welcome change from the usual moody Winter palettes but I found my attention firmly on the mixed up letters strung out across the pieces. Do they mean anything? And if so, how are we going to find out how to break the code? And how long will it take before we give up trying and just accept that they’re just very pretty dresses?!


Mind-bending words at D&G
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JESSIE WEISS, WRITER
Jessica Weiss is the voice behind Germany’s biggest fashion blog LesMads. Since it’s conception in 2007, Berlin based LesMads has won the prestigious ‘Lead Award’ for Best Weblog 2010. Jessica will be bringing us the latest in style news and her hot picks from farfetch.com.


TOM STUBBS, WRITER
Tom Stubbs is a stylist and writer who works for Sunday Times Style, The Rake, The Quarterly, FT How To Spend It, and Finch’s Quarterly. He also writes his own blog www.styleanderror.co.uk. Stubbs is our menswear fashion week correspondent.


INDIGO CLARKE, WRITER
Writer Indigo Clarke is Fashion Features Editor for Lula Magazine UK, Editor at Large for Oyster Magazine AUS, Contributing Features Editor for Russh Magazine AUS, Correspondent for Harper’s Bazaar AUS and also writes features for AnOther Magazine UK, Plastique Magazine UK and The Melbourne Age Newspaper. Reporting from the big apple, Indigo brings us the front row news as our New York Fashion Week correspondent.

VIOLAINE BERNARD, WRITER
Violaine is Fashion Editor of new quarterly style magazine Velour, each season she brings us the latest activity from London Fashion Week.

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