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Etro Spring 2017 Menswear Etro is an Italian fashion house founded in 1968. The label remains a family business, with the founder's children in executive positions with the company. Etro produces a menswear and womenswear line, in addition to accessories, fragrances, and other home products. The company is best known for its paisley patterned designs, which ...

Ralph Lauren Spring 2017 Menswear Ralph Lauren is a reed that bends in the wind but he is forever Ralph Lauren. America’s pre-eminent designer has streamlined his brand architecture and is now going through a process of more profound corporate restructure: Yet in his Milano palazzo today the 2017 archetype of Purple Label masculinity was serenely ...

Philipp Plein Spring 2017 Menswear “Sorry we are running late”—said Philipp Plein, breezily addressing a bank of TV reporters 13 minutes after his show was due to start at 9 p.m. last night—“but this is fashion!” At 9:39 p.m., as we sat in the bleachers of Plein’s impressive basketball set, we noticed a countdown time on a ...

Neil Barrett 2017 Menswear Retailers repeatedly informally report that Neil Barrett is hot-to-trot on the rails right now, but it that hot air? Apparently not: “It’s been our best year since we started,” this softly spoken, deeply consistent designer confirmed backstage before this evening’s show. Squinting at the collection that ensued, you could kind of see ...

MP Massimo Piombo Spring 2017 Menswear The MP Massimo Piombo flagship store was originally designed by Gae Aulenti—not as a shop, mind. And it still doesn’t feel like one. Piombo installed plants and painted the space a signature shade of blue—okay, Yves Klein named it first, but the pigment is decidedly Piombo. Otherwise, the narrow, high-stacked ...

Boglioli Spring 2017 Menswear Davide Marello, Boglioli’s young, lanky, and well-mannered creative director, has a penchant for art, which nowadays seems to serve as a prerequisite for every fashion designer worthy of the title. Art images are plastered across every mood board, the more arcane the better. Sometimes they’re just a thin veneer of maquillage layered ...