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Emilio Pucci opened his first retailer in Capri, in 1949, serving up kaleidoscopic printed attire that by the ’60s had turn out to be signifiers of a jet-set way of life recognizable properly past Italian trip locations. Massimo Giorgetti, the younger founding father of MSGM, considered one of Milan's current success tales, took the wheel ...

The backdrop of Alberta Ferretti’s show was an aerial video of the desert: sand sliding over mile upon mile of dunes, nothing but sun, wind, and sky—and just about as far away from Milan’s rain-soaked streets as you could get today. The wide-open vistas offered clues to Ferretti’s frame of mind. “The desert is free, ...

DONDUP AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR MILAN FASHION WEEK Dondup's name comes from a Tibetan lama, Mingyar Dondup, whose motto was "all men were created equal; color and religion mean nothing." At first, one wonders what this has to do with a denim company based in Fossombrone, in the peaceful Marche region of Italy. But, as Dondup's creative ...

ANTONIO MARRAS AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR MILAN FASHION WEEK "She's my friend, and a collection is the most precious thing I have to give her." That was Antonio Marras' heartfelt rationale for the show he dedicated to Italian style icon Benedetta Barzini. She posed for Avedon and Penn, hung out at Warhol's Factory, befriended Salvador Dalí. She ...

ANGELOS BRATIS AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR MILAN FASHION WEEK After last season's debut chez Armani Teatro—a sort of imprimatur—Angelos Bratis wisely decided not to stage another show. His touch, after all, is way too subtle and his dresses way too complex and deceptively elementary to resist being visually swallowed by a stroll on the catwalk. Instead, Bratis ...

JIL SANDER AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR MILAN FASHION WEEK Frédéric Sanchez's soundtrack—a blurry, impressionistic, almost atonal mesh of Nico's and Chet Baker's versions of "My Funny Valentine"—suggested chaos. But the set was a precisely ordered group of colored pillars, like a geometric Stonehenge. Rodolfo Paglialunga imagined his new collection for Jil Sander forming somewhere between the ...