Everything You Need to Know About Milan Fashion Week FW17

 

Street Style Milan Fashion Week 2017. Photo credit: IMAXTREE / VincenzoGrillo

 

Fashion For All Says Gucci

Following the footsteps of London and New York, designers certainly experimented with the political theme for this year’s Fashion Week but none could match Gucci. Collaborating with artist Coco Capitán, Michele stunned the fashion world with a collection consisting of at least 119 looks. Colourful, would be an understatement. Michele goes all out this season. In the first unified fashion show, he had male and female models strutting their stuff through a large plexiglass tunnel and looping around a central pyramid.

Gucci catwalk. Photo credit: Harpers Bazaar

 

The designer holds nothing back when it comes to inspiration. Stylised the ‘Alchemist’s Garden: Anti-Modern Laboratory’, models are donned head to toe in an eclectic range of gender ambiguous clothing. Decorative to the extreme is all the rage with Gucci this year. Some might consider the Gucci range excessive. Others may be confused with the gender ambiguity behind the theme. But if there is one long standing political theme in today’s society, it would be rejecting the constraints of the male and female genders in favour of expressing one’s true identity. Hats off to Alessandro Michele and Coco Capitán for your ingenuity and craftsmanship!

“The Alchemist’s Garden” [Gucci] Milan Fashion Week 2017. Photo credit: Getty

The range combines cultures and historical eras throughout the years, even centuries, inviting people to contemplate on how we interpret and go about the future. Using bright colour and gender neutral motifs, Michele encourages people to question the issues associated with gender specific clothing. So what if a male model is wearing a floral printed jacket and a female model has her face covered with a glittery balaclava? Women have been shopping for men’s stylised clothing for decades and this year’s Gucci collection caters to everyones tastes. The collection embraces everything, whether it be bees, flared trousers, striped parasols, graffiti sprawled t-shirts with the text, ‘Common Sense is not Common’, dog collars and an arrow as an accessory. With the catwalk reminiscent to a fancy costume party, Gucci has made it clear since day one of Milan fashion week that fashion isn’t just for the trend setters, it’s for everyone.

Alessandro Michele states his range – “[Is] beautiful and pop but also very sophisticated in a way… it’s an eclectic conversation between different inspirations, that at the end becomes a language. My idea of fashion was always that it wasn’t just one story”

Love and Unity Preaches Prada

While Gucci embraced the eclectic, Versace on the other hand proudly shared their ideals of ‘Love and Unity’ for women. Although not written on paper, the manifesto was branded on clothing. Promoting ‘Equality’, ‘Courage’ and ‘Unified’ in capital letters, subtlety was not an option given the state of American politics!

“Love and Unity” [Versace] Milan fashion week 2017. Photo credit: Getty
A Feminist Manifesto For Prada  
Prada returned to the feminist form, exploring the many ways of being a woman throughout the years. The collection is punchy, urgent. From pleated trousers, feathers, to 1940s stylised tweed coats and vintage beaded dresses, Prada goes through time and back again on the catwalk. No side stepping when it comes to female empowerment. 
“Many Ways of Being a Woman” [Prada] Milan Fashion Week 2017. Photo credit: Getty
The Women’s March Comes to Fashion at Missoni 
The Missoni brand knew where they stood in the fashion world and society, as female models donned the famous ‘pussyhats’ in tribute to the womens’ march in Washington. Who says a woman can’t look sexy in a grandma knitted blazer and corduroys? Not Missoni! 
Missoni runway. Photo credit: Getty
To printed slogans screaming ‘Courage’ to clothing designed for all, there is no denying Milan Fashion Week is a cornerstone for fashion lovers and those who fight for equality, unity, self expression and empowerment.
Check out FIB’s film round up of Milan Fashion Week above! 
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