Chromantics: Milan

MFW DAY 3

Forca Italia and this is our moto for the next couple of days because Milan Fashion Week is here and we are so excited for two reasons. Number 1 because we are in the middle of the fashion coverage (Yeah) and Number 2 because we are in love with Milan. So stay tuned because again for this week we will have daily posts about every Milan Fashion Day. If you have missed the first day of it, you can have a look here:

DAY 1 DAY 2

Charmani was the title of the Spring Summer 2017 fashion show of Mr. Armani. In the age of 82, Giorgio Armani decided to concentrate his focus on the body, so all his creations were about the lightness of the body, finding a new balance between discipline and freedom as he said at the backstage of the show.

Moving to the show, the words of Armani, translated into filmy fabrics in watery florals and iridescent textures that variously evoked fishnet and scales. Jackets seemed more like cardigans with fastenings at the neck. Shorts were double-layered within transparent silk for a bubble-like effect. Fringe was everywhere and what we really loved was that all the outfits were accessorized with sunglasses, gladiator sandal-boot, earnings and sunglasses.

When you think of a classic Diesel girl you definitely don't think of her wearing lacy frocks in dusty pink shades but you think her into ripped jeans, leather jackets and into a more rock 'n' roll attitude. This season forget all of that. This collection is all about romanticism. The inspiration of the designer was the controversial work of David Hamilton, a photographer that his 60's and 70's pictures were all about very nude and very young girls.

Moving to the collection Diesel kept some of the main characteristics of the brand. Strong utility, army-surplus vibe which featured short baby doll dresses with Chantilly lace overlays, broderie anglaise-ruffled miniskirts paired with field parkas and military inspired oversize jackets. The feminine allure was highlighted by a palette of nude, sand and ivory.

We might be still in Milan but by watching Etro's latest fashion show that doesn't seem to be true. Spring and summer collection was all about textured leather and bead-trimmed caftans, cloaks against silk maxis, mid-length dresses, ponchos, pants and jumpsuits. What we really loved about this collection were the hammered silver jewelry and the gold-hardware hunks of ceramics and minerals. A monochromatic opening saw interplays of stripes and paisley that sometimes seemed touched by the geometry of Art Deco. It rambled on, touching down in contemporary modernity via silk floral jacquard, white weave–piped running shorts and bra tops, moto-detailed pants in leather, and an acid yellow nylon jacket. Simultaneously, Etro had us harking back to an age where athleisure was as likely the name of an unknown kingdom as it is a trend: There was a lovely print incorporating the pressed-gold lettering and illustration of leather-bound 1920s books and frontispieces, plus bags pragmatically equipped with hip flasks and sketching pencils.

Giambatista Valli is a master on setting his fashion shows. For this season, he decided to host his show in the most beautiful building of Milan; Palazzo Lita, a Baroque palace in the middle of Milan that dates back to the 17th century and had once been a family home. The story behind his show, finds the Valli girl, waking up in Los Angeles after a hungover. She wears her baby doll and her glittery brocade bedroom slippers at the same color with her walls.

The models on the defile padded through the scene in abbreviated lace and jacquard mini dresses depicting desert scenes, leopard sports or floor length tiered frocks with fringe and sequin appliqués. His brocade and glitter stack-heeled ankle boots will definitely be one of the best pieces of the show. One thing is sure: That we need all the creations, for sure!

Marco de Vincenzo fashion show was a mind trip to Riviera. Sunny seaside image as a photo print on a blouse and as a template for the jacquard of a coat. Happy colors is a signature point on Marco's collections and this season was no exception. Combinations of azure, olive green and emerald on one ruffled flock; on another he paired green and black strips with red and black strips embroidered tiny flowers. Texture was another big part on his show. Bring was embellished cotton tops and skirts with strings tied in bows. He also played with pin-tucking and he sliced cut-outs into pleats.

This season Tods presented a new image of the brand on the catwalk and that is because of the new creative director; Alessandra Facchinetti that landed to the company earlier this year. As for the collection, Tods presented short shift dresses, biker jackets, pea coats, T-shirts made of striped python , leather and suede. What really became a trend automatically from this show were those amazing Double T and Wave bags. Many accounts on Instagram and Snapchat captured them and let's be honest; They are quite amazing and we really need them for this spring summer!

When we are thinking about Versace house, we directly think of a strong, powerful and always glamorous woman that she is always ready to take down the best night at a nightclub or at a business event. This season Donatella Versace seems to involve this kind of woman. She transform her into a more athletic and energetic and this is probably what the period demands.

Models from many ages and more varieties of shape when billowy nylon parkas; body-con leggings with tight sporty T-shirts; Teva flatforms sandals. Versace special techniques couldn't be missed and the nylon techno fabric was soon threaded with drawstrings pulled a couple of asymmetrically sexy dresses in navy blue and green. Leather was deployed as a cropped color-blocked blouson with nylon track pants. The classic curve-sculpted black dresses and the signature checkerboard prints couldn't be out of this spring summer collection in a new and more forward way that the past collections.

Front Row couldn't be missing from this post and of course street style photos!

Armani Front Row

Versace Front Row

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Written by Petropoulou Nefeli, Chromantics Fashion Editor

Sources: Vogue.com, elle.uk.com, vogue.co.uk

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MFW DAY 2

DAY 1

Here we go with Day 2 of Milan Fashion Week then! A lot of exciting and popular among the people, fashion houses were presenting on the 2nd day, with the first of them being Max Mara. Although both the Rio Olympics and Paralympics Games are over, the brand decided to remind it to us once again. The actual influence was Lina Bo Bardi, an Italian-born architect and an athletic vibe collection strutted down the runway with jumpsuits.
Parrots and junlges were few of the prints on athleisure techno fabrics. A hint of beige linen walked down the runway but it wasn't enough for the brand that has a signature with its trench coat. We would have loved to see the chic Milanese office woman wear that they are very good to make. We hope that at least we will get to see those pieces on the stores though.

Onto the next fairy tale. Oops no we meant to say designer! The collection of Luisa Beccaria was called "The Nymph Affair", not in a bad way of course! Anything with a touch of romance gets our attention and this collection couldn't escape us with those airy sheer with flowers shewn into them dresses.
A hopeless romantic like us, the designer got inspired from water lilies and of course nymphs and translated them to floor-sweeping dresses from organza and tulle. As much as we like to be princesses to our fairy tales, we like to touch down to planet Earth once in a while but continue wearing fairy like office wear. There were pieces in the collection that were most wearable on the daily side.We equally love those too!

We all remember the spectacular couture show gave back in July. If you don't take a look here for Fendi's Fontana di Trevi Miracle (models walked on water you don't want to miss that!) This time around the models might didn't walk on the water but they did have sugar glitter lips. Can you imagine that? All those resulted into another successful quirky collection.

Some elements like baroque elements with sporty knitted socks on the first sight didn't add up but you have to trust the genius called Karl Largefeld. A master of puzzling together decades. Which he did it again this time around, matching a khaki jacket that had leather flower embroidery, a '20s style silk lingerie dress with butterflies on it. Leather, sheer, silk and gilded fabrics all that in one collection. Yes it's Fendi and Karl. They can do anything they want.

Next up, Ports 1961. Stripes, breezy and relaxed silhouettes and bright colours. A sentence that describes summer for the brand. The creative director Natasa Cagalj said "I wanted to communicate the positive feel of summer holidays". We think she nailed it quite a lot.

For the most part the striped pieces that were deconstructed and with sharp cuts,gave us the feeling of the endless lazing around in the house during the summer. Not in the bad way totally not. Pajamas but luxurious ones that you were them and want to stroll on the streets. They weren't the only pieces though. Striped shirts were made into a skirt. The collection worked its way to more sober nd darker hues of blue and black, which were combined on a range of elegant pieces, injected with an urban sophistication. Not a bad combination at all.

Emilio Pucci is the next designer. Pucci was considered the jet set brand in the 1960s. This time around its creative director Massimo Giorgetti stated " I don't vintage; I like the future". An interesting saying to open the Spring 2017 collection. He did dive deep into the archives of the brand and came up a winner. The route he decided to go with? Modernizing the pieces from the archive.
Kept the prints and returned with the signature colours of the brand. He used colour-blocking to pair them and the result screams Pucci.

Another fighter for the now and the present other than the past is Miuccia Prada and that's what she tried to with the Spring '17 collection for Prada. She stated that instead of searching for the history of woman that she have been doing for quite a while, she wants to focus on the present and the now. With the collection that walked down the runway, she managed to bring the brand back to its root of innovation and recognition.
Deco graphic print from the 20s-30s was present, and a reminder from the 90s with a box knee-length kilt skirt paired with a t shirt. You might ask us what we liked the best in the collection. It comes without thinking or even blinking. The marriage of the beautiful details of ostrich and marabou trimmings that were from the bags to coats with the pastel beige-colour dresses, pajamas. One thing for sure is that we liked the chic yet somewhat revolutionary vibe it brought.

Last dollhouse of the day? Oops! Again our tongue slipped! Not dollhouse but fashion show. We are excused though because the next collection was Moschino with creative director Jeremy Scott unleashing his creativity for the brand. After all the models were dressed with life-size paper doll clothes.
He managed to bring his designs from 3-D and 2-D. It was a Moschino show through and through with big logos on the belts and gowns (yes yes gowns as paper doll clothes). Result? Intense, keeping you fixed on your sit to see what it will come next. How you will dress your paper dolls from Moschino?

Front Row couldn't be missing from this post and we start with the Prada front Row and the Dinner after the show.
Front row Prada

Prada dinner

Front row Moschino

Last but not least the Fendi Front row

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Written by Doxy Pantazi, Chromantics Fashion Editor

Sources: Vogue.com, wwd.com, vogue.co.uk

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Fashion

MFW DAY 1

Forca Italia and this is our moto for the next couple of days because Milan Fashion Week is here and we are so excited for two reasons. Number 1 because we are in the middle of the fashion coverage (Yeah) and Number 2 because we are in love with Milan. So stay tuned because and for this week we will have daily posts about every

When we have Gucci, we have the official opening of Milan Fashion Week and trust me, this is a relief for us because we are in love with this city but we are also in the middle of fashion week coverage and this excite us more. But let's dive into the weird/magical for some show of Alessandro Michele for Gucci. This season Alessandro decided to transform the place of the show into a sickly all-pink colored scheme, from the carpet to the candy floss-colored velveteen banquettes, to the walls. The weirdest thing was that the lights never come up and that upset lot of people that were there because they weren't able to see all the details of the clothes.

Describing the collection prints, metallics, silk and sequins were the main materials that we saw on the show. Oversized ruffled dresses, colorful capes, extravaganza hats that remind us another period of time were perfectly combined with the space. We all know what Alessandro Michele has another point of view and we saw that clearly from this collection. Total denim suits, huge blows on shirts, transparency effects in almost all the clothes and floral printed matched suits remind us a little bit of the 70's silhouettes. No matter of what you think of this collection, we think that every piece of clothing that we saw will be sold out soon...

Alberta Feretti is a designer and a brand with a certain way and idea of creating every single collection. For this spring, this house, decided to play a little bit more edgy with their creations but in a certain way. The opening outfit of Bella Hadid, wearing this gorgeous long tiered ruffle skirt in an amethyst-color silk combined with a tooled-leather corset gave us the idea that this show is going to be extremely amazing and it was not only because of the creations but for the tailoring as well.

Layered underneath a ruffly chiffon frock were flared trousers and silk peasant blouse were crisp shorts, we can describe it as a basic but balanced and simple. In contrast, the multicolored floral thread on different dresses, gave another tone to the show. The kinda-athletic-mode, couldn't be missed from the runway and the ankle-grazing skirts combined with cropped tanks were exactly what we want for our athleisure outfits.

This season, Peter Dundas, had only one image on this mind and that was probably the 70's! We know that Peter is not a huge fan of minimalism and for this spring that statement became a reality. Patch worked references, long drifty dresses, flares and platforms are totally "in-fashion", for this spring/summer, Cavalli girl.

The places that the designer was inspired were for sure the places that he is from! For example, those amazing Navajo jackets were inspired by the United States, the place were his mother came from or those platform boots that come from Scandinavia, another place where Dundas come from. The only thing, that we all agree is that Peter knows for sure how to make a woman looks not only sexier but toweringly slim also, due to his beautiful, colored, multi-everything dresses. But how can we speak about the 70's without talking about fringed blankets, shawls, leather jackets and drifty dresses. Well, those were the main pieces of this collections and that is the reason why this collection was so 70's!

If we want to describe Fay's latest collection we can use what the designers of the brand told "Original, nonconformist, free". That moto is what this collection is all about. The direction of the designers is to make both mothers and daughters, to getting away go what is known as "cool" and "classic".

The collection vibes seemed to be inspired by safari and the girls on the runway to be a modern version of commandos. Safari jackets, which were shown in shades of green and black and were accented with grommeted hems or patches. The jackets were paired with flouncy skirts. Silky little dresses under army coats gave us the image of the familiar to us "festival girl style". Some pieces stayed classic on their collection such as the old time classic trench coat, a leafy green suede coat-dress, a selection of oversized jackets which make us think that the gap between mothers and daughters is now more close that ever.

In every show as you may know the designer gives some hints about what the audience is about to see and that helps the reviewers to their job more properly. This season Franceso Scognamilio was inspired by his childhood memories go the circus but also from an oversized and deconstructed wardrobe that belonged to an aristocrat's father. Those hints were a little bit difficult to be understood but when the catwalk began, all made a sense.

Masculine, oversized volumes, few asymmetric poplin shirts and sexy micro shorts in chantilly lace were some of the main characteristics of the show. Flimsy lingerie and couture touches of jacquard brocade in gold, fuchsia and seawater green which graced big bombers with fringed piping worn with lacy shorts made the collection, a total winner!

Dell'Acqua, the designer of No 21, told to the reporters on the backstage a quote for the show; "It's a new attitude". What he attempted to do for this spring is to full the gap on a woman's life when she understands that she will never be all things to all people and her wardrobe. Surveying net hems on macramé dresses and bow-topped pumps highlighted with fluorescent tape, sequined tube skirts, tulle-lined anoraks and feather-trimmed cuba-tops are the clothing for a woman who's ready for everything and nothing at the same time. The tiered silk, the sequined skirts, and the pocketed bombers completed the collection.

The invitation card read "Alice in Ghettoland" and as problematic the name of the show was, Phillip Plein managed to create a show based on the known story of Alice in Wonderland and make in successful by adding some new more edgy elements. This year, he had on his side, the known singer Fergie and her glamorous squad. The models who followed wore faded-wash denim tricked out with piles of gold chains, shrunked nylon track jackets and pants, metallic croc suits and watching high-tops and slinky chain mail. With this show Phillip Plein closed a big chapter of his career in Milan. This was his latest show before moving to NYC!