MILAN — It has been an odd, unsatisfying season in Milan. Parties and celebrities were thin on the ground; the biggest trends to emerge have been Lurex and fur for the feet (really: sheared-mink shoes will be big come September). The ’80s are of interest to some. Rumors have swirled with no closure.
When asked by a colleague at his somewhat anodyne MSGM show of Crayola-bright mohair and Mongolian lamb, heart and flower-strewn minidresses, whether all the gossip about his maybe-possible future employment by a big brand had any basis in reality, the designer Massimo Giorgetti smiled and said nothing. An exhibition of works by the British photographer David Bailey drew the biggest crowd of the week.
The city is distracted by Expo 2015, the world’s fair opening May 1 that focuses on the future of food, not fashion. Both subjects are at the core of Italian identity but right now, it seems, the evolution of one is taking up more imaginative bandwidth than the other. Everywhere you look: giant banners and half-built structures touting the event’s tagline, “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life.”
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