“We can’t move the dates earlier in September as they would interfere with Labor Day,” Steven Kolb said yesterday. “If Milan goes before New York, how would that work?”That’s the question fashion insiders are asking right now as they sort out the international fashion week calendar for 2012. Since New York decided to start the [...]

You probably saw Anna Dello Russo wearing the mini, embroidered dresses in candy colors during the Couture shows. Then again during New York fashion week. After seeing ADR in them a few times in a row, you may have wondered who designed them. I was curious, too. Turns out it’s Fausto Puglisi, a Milanese designer [...]

Today’s D&G runway show in Milan will be the last from the Dolce & Gabbana line, WWD reports. The company announced it will instead incorporate D&G into its signature line. The designers say they hope it will bring “even more strength and energy to our collection.”
Photo: Photo: Yannis Vlamos / GoRunway.com

Cintra Wilson reviews Isaac Mizrahi’s new shop (remember, he’s not calling it a store) and ends up reviewing Isaac himself. He’s the “Falstaff of the fashion world,” she writes, which, we think, is a sneaky way of saying he’s lovably loud. [NYT]Turns out there was no truth to the rumor circulating earlier this week [...]

It seems like just yesterday that I railed against the murky statement of the kitten heel that I saw on midtown tourists all summer long. But, if yesterday in Milan is any evidence, the look may have legs.Yes, there were some tiny little heels at Marni, including a pair inspired by those navy rubber sandals [...]

This season’s runway tracks were a schizophrenic medley, veering from hardcore rap and opera to techno and old-school country—occasionally, all in a single show. Here, a selection of Milan’s music to watch clothes by.PradaBreakout Track: Brenda Lee’s All Alone Am IThe Final Note: Lee’s plaintive and sweet fifties-era croonings were mixed up with rap and [...]

Yesterday in Milan, there was a kind of study in opposites. Bottega Veneta’s (ultrachic) casual walk in the park versus Gucci’s stomp in a vaguely futuristic cityscape.First, Bottega Veneta. As the Lord of Low-Key Luxe, Tomas Maier has never gone ridiculously Ricci-esque in his footwear. But we take these gently crafty wedges and nearly horizontal [...]

Milan Vukmirovic is a busy guy. These days, the man who helped revolutionize retail as a founder of Colette, and then honed his design chops under Tom Ford and at the helm of Jil Sander, is a triple threat: retailer, editor, and designer. But at Friday night’s opening of Trussardi 1911’s new concept store, Vukmirovic [...]

The huge machinery that is the Italian luxury fashion and textile industry is facing a threat on three fronts: its own complacency in not developing homegrown talent, the migration of manufacturing to low-cost countries, and now the economic downturn. In a way, though, though, the horrible realization that there’s a perfect storm brewing might be [...]

Many a street-wear trend has made it to the runway—military jackets, slashed jeans, sweatpants. But somehow the idea of visible boxer-brief waistbands over low-slung pants is one that’s never really been embraced. Go figure. That is, until Roberto Cavalli’s softly pretty, vintage-inspired show earlier today, where the designer showed loose-waisted palazzo pants with pretty floral [...]