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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jess Cartner-Morley in Milan

Italian fashion houses are in the midst of a shake-up at Milan fashion week

The energy of the millennium-era is proving irresistible so Fendi’s second show of the season was a 1990s warehouse party, with neon-painted steel podiums zigzagging a concrete floor.
Fendi’s second show of the season was a 1990s warehouse party, with neon-painted steel podiums zigzagging a concrete floor. Photograph: Jacopo Raule/Getty Images

The London catwalks were muffled and muted by national mourning – but in Milan, fashion week is in ebullient mood.

The Italian fashion industry is on course for its best ever year of sales in 2022. Opening the week of fashion shows Carlo Capasa, the president of the Italian Fashion Chamber, said “in 2022, we are going to reach and even exceed the level of sales generated before the 2008 crisis, recording the [Italian] fashion industry’s highest revenue in 20 years”.

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