Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012: Giorgio Armani

The pure light of Giorgio Armani fashion show, but there is no light without darkness, and as demonstrated in previous collections, it is mainly the dark light to shine on the catwalk for spring-summer 2012, between tissues that glow in the dark or have a reflective textures, almost translucent, often nacrè.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012: Roberto Cavalli

By Roberto Cavalli, which closes our special on the catwalks of Milan fashion week, gold will be on stage. Pure or contaminated with lush decor that has always distinguished the brand, given to the craftsmanship of the longest established and most admired Italian tradition, more specifically Florentine. The show opens with a blaze of shining metal and then gives way to deep black.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012: DSquared2

A jump to Glastonbury without moving from Milan is the imaginary journey in which Dan and Dean Caten lead us with the new spring-summer 2012 DSquared2, designed precisely to dress celebrities and not to the summer music festivals. Not even the lack of rain boots, the ideal and the only possible alternative to the muddy bottom to get splashed with mud for any other kind of shoe on such occasions.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012: Marni

In Milan, the elegance is the rule more sober, composed, timeless, like a clear and significant response to the spread of bad taste and Marni, more than ever we see this shift to the delicacy of line, form, color. The line designed by Consuelo Castiglioni for spring-summer 2012 is inspired by the innocence, purity, lightness, with an eye to the classical tradition and renewal fresh and fragrant.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012: Gianfranco Ferre

Changing of the guard at the helm of Gianfranco Ferre who knows ups and downs in recent seasons, none of which benefits the brand, the attention it deserves, in search of a style in sharp focus. In Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi Stefano Citron and Federico Piaggi happen, which develop a nice collection unfairly passed almost unnoticed by the lack of appeal exerted by new names.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012: Bottega Veneta

Put the most advanced textile technology in line with the tradition of craftsmanship: is the formula of the spring-summer 2012 Bottega Veneta, who chooses to return to the Sixties as the main inspiration but the processing of fabrics and detail, deep color choice modern.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012: Moschino Cheap and Chic

The invitation to show a packet of radish seeds, the setting was set up as a fruit and vegetable market. The spring-summer 2012 Moschino Cheap and Chic is a hymn to nature, to the domesticated housewife, dell'orticello behind the house, but with his usual humor and unstoppable.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012: Emilio Pucci

Emilio Pucci in Milan presents the new collection spring-summer 2012, signed by Peter Dundas and once again it seems that the designer has found its ideal size as well as Pucci, the designer was needed.

The tradition of the house is never in his hands at the same time without repeated and renewed efforts, with a look that can be noticed among many other proposals, with the safety of those who have doubts and hesitations of any kind on their creative genius.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012: Emporio Armani

The way that King George has chosen to give his Emporio Armani presented in Milan for next spring-summer 2012 is Neodesign and is immediately clear why. The sci-fi suggestions that we have learned to recognize, for example, from Balenciaga to expect there to be revisited in Armani but almost tailor, as is the custom in the hands of the designer, which gives each creation a touch of essentiality and elegance of which he is capable of very few.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012: Dolce and Gabbana

Back to the roots for Dolce and Gabbana Spring-Summer 2012, which draws on archives and the glorious decade of the fifties and very much loved by the popular duo of leading designers on the catwalk made ​​of colorful summer colors, flowers and fruit and vegetables, as if on dress went to an outdoor market scene: the prints show zucchini, tomatoes, onions.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012: Etro

A new vision of the Jazz Age made ​​of hedonism, excess, the search for beauty and plenty of alcohol before taking a dip in the fountain in front of the Plaza in New York before the Great Depression. So Veronica Etro is developing the new collection spring-summer 2012. The woman looks for originality Etro by revisiting the past, but without basking in what might seem easier. Missing in fact quite paisley print, real trademark of the house.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012: Marco De Vincenzo

The inspiration, says Marco De Vincenzo backstage, comes from the drapery fabric, patterns from classic games from the shadows of the Greek statues. The spring-summer 2012 presented in Milan, as usual, is impeccable, clear idea that gives it form, and new staff. A striking detail is more than any other knitting many items that are then hand painted with metallic shades, folds to play, games and refraction of light that inspired the work of this line.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012: Antonio Marras

Inspiration cultured for spring-summer 2012 fashion show by Antonio Marras before the show that explains the duplicity in this style on the catwalk, perhaps unintelligible without a premise is Jean Genet and his play The s'attinge you need. On the catwalk's wardrobe and that of Madame is, in fact, that what the lady draws some influence with various materials and a constant game of roles.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012: Trussardi

Trussardi is celebrating one hundred years and does so with the first collection of new creative director Umit Benan, signing the spring-summer 2012 line inspired by the most sober and elegant symbol of an imaginary house grandson of Annie Hall 's unforgettable star of Woody Allen's Annie Hall.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012: Iceberg

Back to the Sixties iceberg on the catwalk for spring-summer 2012 that is based on a well-dosed mix of sporty-chic, combining stylistic cues from different but due to the mixed theme inspired by an era of fashion that has been able to make real women and their revolutions in the closet.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012 : Versace

This is the autumn gold of Versace, on everyone's lips for her collaboration with H & M, which always guarantees an exceptional visibility while the risk of leading to heavy criticism as those that hit Lanvin. Or those who had previously designed collections that preserve low-cost design signed but are produced with materials and finishes of questionable quality and prices rise above average because you pay the exclusivity of the head. Also to be considered something exclusive that you buy in the tens of thousands of people.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012: Prada

Sweet and quirky, feminine and a little 'prissy: is the parade of Prada for spring-summer 2012 full of delicate tracery, funny prints, pleats and butterflies alight on bare sandals. There is a very short return to the top, leaving the belly discovery, however, partially covered by the life of high skirts, light and soft, often printed.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012 : Fendi

Fendi is staged by the alternative idea of a woman made ​​of sun appearances, often broken, with little consideration of its value beyond the physical aspect that seems to want to defend them now causing controversy hour, now supine acceptance with downward adjustment of our femininity. Here is a woman whom one is inspired by Rita Levi Montalcini: serious, practical, academic, intelligent, multi-faceted in its femininity that is not reduced to a body, but it is a body with a brain, heart and style.

Milan Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2012 : Dolce & Gabbana

This is the last show of the line D & G by Dolce and Gabbana designed to completing this collection to the forefront of that outline. On the ground floor dressed star of stars, with leaders of the autumn-winter skies covered deep. On the catwalk a theory of prints scarves turned into clothing, with a reference to past collections and suggestions that lead to Versace and Hermès.

Milan Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2012 : MaxMara

Another style of the MaxMara which contradicts the widespread tendency to mix without too much care ideas from different sources, with the result only occasionally to get an effect of unusual but refined definition of style.

It is the point on which Franca Sozzani, editor of Vogue Italy, insisted in an editorial in which he invited the online fashionistas to the rediscovery of a stylistic tone ordered, measured, that does not care to impress her eccentric character but for the care of detail and quality.