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Giorgio Armani does well with blue. It seems to dominate his most memorable collections of the past few decades. And even if today's spirited shade of cornflower lacked the mysterious intensity of the desert sky at night (his best blue), it didn't let him down, whether it was coloring draped shorts ...

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Italian fashion's resident hippie couldn't let Milan's '70s moment happen without him, could he? After a tricky Fall show, Roberto Cavalli was back on form today with a Just Cavalli collection that simultaneously tapped into his own origins and looked like it will connect with festival types of the ...

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If it's no longer true that all roads lead to Rome, the two-lane highway that ran down the Fendi catwalk today was definitely headed back there. Fendi's new Roman headquarters is the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, built under Mussolini. Its "Square Colosseum" configuration was the inspiration for t...

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AMO, the company that designs the sets for Prada's shows, has created some special effects in the past. In June, the show space was transformed into a huge swimming pool as a backdrop for the Spring menswear collection. Today, the women's turn, the expanse of water had been replaced by eerie dunes m...

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How many different ways can you reinterpret the 1970s? Milan's designers have been answering that question, some with more success than others, since the first model hit the catwalk yesterday. Costume National's Ennio Capasa, for his part, had Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg, and Mick Jagger on...

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Bally creative director Pablo Coppola laid firm groundwork at his women's accessories and ready-to-wear debut last February, realigning the century-and-a-half-old Swiss brand with its reputation for timeless luxury. Today he loosened up a bit, building on the classic sensibility and silhouettes he i...

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If you had any doubts that Jeremy Scott's Moschino is hot, tonight's show instantly killed them dead. It took a good 20 minutes to get past the throng at the door, the standing section was three rows deep, and the crowd whooped and hollered as the lights dimmed. "Hiya, Barbie!" rang out from the ...

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Tonight's Ports 1961 collection had a split personality. On the one hand, there was crisp, slightly military-influenced tailoring, and on the other, diaphanous dresses and see-through separates. "This season," designer Fiona Cibani wrote in the program notes, "the Ports 1961 woman has two souls insp...

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Brunello Cucinelli had every reason to be in an upbeat mood at the preview of his Spring collection today. Dapper and cheerful, he disclosed that in the first semester of 2014 the company (public, after an IPO in 2012) had posted revenues of a healthy 12 percent over last year. It's been a long jour...

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Brunello Cucinelli had every reason to be in an upbeat mood at the preview of his Spring collection today. Dapper and cheerful, he disclosed that in the first semester of 2014 the company (public, after an IPO in 2012) had posted revenues of a healthy 12 percent over last year. It's been a long jour...

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Kate Moss caused a mini-commotion in the front row at Gucci today. She stars in a fall campaign for the brand's new Jackie bag: In a case of advertising imitating life, the paparazzi chase her through an airport. Frida Giannini's terrific Spring collection caught some of Moss' rock-chick look in the...

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Despite being relatively new to the scene, Stella Jean, the Italian-Haitian designer who is one of Milan's rising stars, has already found her own highly recognizable fashion recipe. Her optimistic brand of colorful multiculturalism is a clever mix of bourgeois shapes—either proudly ladylike or tomb...

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Alessandro Dell'Acqua invented a new fashion category with his No. 21 show tonight: military rococo. A khaki shirt belted over a pencil skirt in swirling, ornately sequined macramé defined the idea. It wasn't the only look that married opposites. "Disdain for convention" is, according to the press r...

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It feels like Joni Mitchell is in the air. After the blizzard of attention lavished on Kate Bush this year, it may just be Our Lady of the Canyon's turn for some love. And even if Alberta Ferretti might not have been 100 percent clued in to such a notion, she certainly offered up outfits that would'...

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Anjelica Huston's memoir A Story Lately Told is such a compulsive read, it's a surprise her name hasn't been coming up more lately. As a model in the '70s, Huston posed for a lot of the greats, Richard Avedon and David Bailey included, and she had a real sense of style. It was the glory days of Amer...

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Francesco Scognamiglio has been through his share of downs and ups lately. Losing a business partner, going it alone in a city notoriously difficult for fledgling independents, finding a new business partner. Tonight he was in the ascendant, with a collection of delicate, just a little bit dirty 193...

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A Sicilian who grew up obsessing over Hollywood and idolizing Gianni Versace, Fausto Puglisi was born to make short, leggy dresses. Madonna handpicked the guy to outfit Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. for her Super Bowl halftime performance before most of the people at his show tonight even knew who he was. ...