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| In the last days of June '99 Milano hosted the week of
men's Italian fashion: Milano Collezioni Uomo. Models, journalists and buyers charged the city with an energetic atmosphere, expecially in Fashion's golden streets, where most of the shows spilled out to find their locations.
The keywords in common with the work of all designers for the next spring-summer all the collections are:
Here is our review of the shows that, in our opinion, best represented the current & future trends in menswear. |
The presentation is inside Spazio Bigli, a place used often for fashion's glittering events. The atmosphere is elegant and there is, as always when we talk about Gianfranco Ferrè, a polished style. Models are still in their condition to be on a central catwalk. The dominant colors are beige, cinnamon and shades of blue. Shirts leave place to informal jackets and vests. Jackets, with new guru collars, have multipocket and multizip bands that turn into handy bags. All shades of white are used for every kind of article like shirt-jackets, pants and workjackets and bomber jackets. |
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The collection is developed around three themes: khakis, techno-natural and week-end. For khakis, the main color is combined with blue and light blue. Fabrics used are cotton cloth, polyurethane and popeline manocarta for sportswear. Inspiration is vintage and fatigue-wear. |
A rediscovery of roots and a search for identity are firmly entrenched, alongside the exaltation of technology and the desire for novelty. "Frontiers are shifting, the circle widening but the center remains". The new sporty-refined trend uses natural fibres like wool, silk and cotton to obtain an opaque effect while guaranteeing excellent performance and functionality. Lightweight materials for practical garments, the fresh appeal of light and clean colors are the more informal line of Corneliani 's collection. |
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Tradition concealed within total innovation. A new Allegri line for a generation born on the Internet, CD-ROMs and environmental protection. The target are people aged from 20 to 25 with totally unisex tastes and habits. Left Hand is a way of thinking rather than a fashion collection. |
We assisted to the exaltation of the individual throughout the multiplicity of accents and shades of colors: Danube and horizon blue, peanut beige, candle white, bran, desert, sky, navy, citron yellow, scarlet, ozone blue, grapefruit yellow, string white. Colors are also emphasized by the alternating stripes and the contrasting trim. |
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"He is fearless without being aggressive, he is up-to-date but he is tuned in his personal time, he is dynamic but refuses the jerky rhythms". Formality does not necessarily mean stiffness so they create new volumes and new proportions for a natural dressing, recovering the themes of the active wear and transferring them in a new metropolitan uniform. |
The event is located in trendyssimo Four Seasons Hotel and the climate is very classic and luxurious. Gray is the prevalent color and fabrics are excellent. The peculiar element are bottons with three holes and a round line. |
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"Time: 8:15 a.m. …sun already ablaze on the horizon…coming out of a motel in southern Florida…". What do we bring with us? Color is the keyword for rumpled shirts in iridescent shantung and in rubberized silk, foulards, sherbet-tone pants with flawless pressed creases, op-art suits and metallic silk, leather with studs and strass, swimsuits with buckles, lurex knit tops, bombers in leather or silk… |
"So far apart and yet so near, past present and future merge in a flare of energy". Creations are enriched by that sense of time that exalts experience. Technology and nature work hand in hand. Color runs from black to white, in typical Soprani style, to natural and extreme shades. |
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