Milan, Italy
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The skies could have clouded over through the Fall-Winter 2026 season of Milan Men’s Fashion Week, however for a lot of within the metropolis, spirits have been excessive – lifted by pleasure surrounding the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games going down this 12 months in Milan and Cortina.
With three weeks earlier than the video games start, anticipation is constructing throughout Italy – significantly in Milan, which is awash with celebrations at each flip. See the Olympics megastore within the metropolis’s primary sq., Piazza Duomo, the arty home windows of upscale division retailer La Rinascente devoted to the sporting occasion, or the devoted exhibition on winter sports activities at the historic Sforzesco Castle.
In luxurious vogue, the excitement has been embraced by Ralph Lauren, which is outfitting Team USA and staged a devoted menswear present – its first in twenty years – within the Italian metropolis. Meanwhile, Emporio Armani hosted a mini present in its boutique, showcasing its EA7 capsule assortment impressed by the uniforms for Team Italia, for whom it’s the official clothes shop. An equally giant buzz was generated by Dsquared2, which this season returned to the catwalk with a ski-inspired assortment that was modeled by “Heated Rivalry” star Hudson Williams (who additionally later attended the Giorgio Armani present).
The week’s cheer comes amid a thinning schedule, as manufacturers from Bottega Veneta to Jil Sander proceed to decide as an alternative for co-ed males’s and ladies’s exhibits in February. Elsewhere, inventive director modifications at Gucci and Fendi led two heavyweight names to take a seat out this males’s vogue week. And because the occasion drew to a detailed, information broke that the Italian vogue trade has misplaced one other pioneer: Valentino Garavani, who has died at 93. With his strict high fashion coaching and romantic Italian aesthetic, the designer established himself as a titan of glamour – and continues to affect designers at this time. Here’s what NCS noticed all through the week.
