First Days of Milan Fashion Week SS15
As day two draws to a close at Milan Fashion Week, the Ready to Wear collections so far have highlighted the diversity of the prominent Italian fashion week. While the week is often renowned for evoking the glam side of European fashion, we focus on three collections that brought a different style to the runway.
Alberta Ferretti
The Italian fashion designer and dressmaker has been presenting at Milan Fashion Week for over thirty years. This season Alberta Ferretti’s hippie designs brought some variety to Milan and moved away from the figure hugging garments that are frequently seen. Light and sheer fabrics were used to construct dresses, which hung long and were fringed at the bottom. For Ferretti, the key message within her designs was not about aesthetics, but about women capturing their freedom.
Uma Wang
The SS15 collection spoke more of colour than the Uma Wang brand has in recent collections. Selections of garments were striped, while others were applied with a subtle floral pattern, which swirled over jackets and dresses. Despite the garments hanging loosely over the body, the delicacy of the fabric captured their femininity. Last month, fluoro spoke with Uma Wang in her Shanghai studio, uncovering her approach to design and influences. The interview can be read in full here.
Moschino
Jeremy Scott has continued to inject the Moschino house with pop. The vibrant collection, did not hold the same explicit pop symbolism of his first for Moschino, but did create the same energy on the runway. The garments were colourful and diverse, ranging from pink hot pants and quilted cropped jackets to sequinned dresses and gold leather pants. A playful range of accessories accompanied the collection, with patent leather bags representing boomboxes and models wearing vibrant cameras around their necks. Models did not only walk the runway, but sailed down it on roller-skates.
fluoro will continue to provide coverage of Milan Fashion Week SS15 before we shift focus to Paris Fashion Week for the remainder of the Ready to Wear season. To see our selection from the designers who are still to present their collections click here.
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