Giorgio Armani, Zegna present fluid elegance for the next hot season as Milan Fashion Week wraps up
MILAN (AP) — Milan Fashion Week opened and closed under a beating early summer sun.
Zegna wrapped up four days of shows Monday with an outdoor event set among bales of raw linen behind Milan’s City Hall, allowing city workers a view out of their windows. For the sweltering fashion crowd, Zegna fashion offered iced coffee and linen baseball caps to keep things cool.
With temperatures rising, Milan designers focused on fluidity in dressing, allowing the body to move without constrictions. With one notable dissenter, runways offered thigh-revealing Bermuda shorts as an alternative to trousers even for city dressing. Gone are the long shorts of streetwear brands.
Some highlights from the final day of Milan Fashion Week of mostly menswear previews for next spring and summer:
Giorgio Armani’s signature collection was meant to show the fashion public how the urban man ought to dress, even in