Milan Fashion Week Men’s arrived this past weekend in the Italian fashion capital with a somewhat depleted schedule: with Gucci and Fendi choosing to show co-ed during womenswear week next month, and JW Anderson sitting the menswear season out, there is plenty of chatter about the relative sedateness of the four-day-long event, and thus its future.
Despite this, there have been enough highlights so far to retain a largely buoyant mood, not least the continuing pull of Prada, whereby co-creative directors Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons set the fashion agenda season-on-season with increasingly cerebral collections which are nonetheless rooted in the reality of clothing. This season, an eclectic collection celebrated liberated, instinctual dressing – from ‘primitive’ slices of faux fur to pyjama sets and cowboy boots – in ‘a move towards humanity,’ as Miuccia Prada described backstage.
