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The Gosha Rubchinskiy show was held at the Yeltsin Museum, and before you ask if Milan has a Yeltsin Museum, it doesn’t. The show wasn’t in Milan, it was in Yekaterinburg and live streamed. And yes, should you have been watching that

There’s a nice square motif running through the Autumn/ Winter 18 Numero Ventuno collection. Is square the right word for a textile? Or is geometric better? Not that it was necessarily geometric, more themes on a square. Which in turn

There were umbrella hats at Fendi. And yes, these are an actual thing. Invented by someone called Robert W Patten, according to Wikipedia, “while he was prospecting in Mexico. His original hat also included a mosquito net attached to the canopy.

There’s a sense of nostalgia permeating through the Giorgio Armani collection. Well, there’s definitely one permeating through the press notes, “The idea of a man drawing on memories and adventures that he speaks of today”. This is about freedom of expression,

Manning the DJ booth himself for his AW18 showing, Marcelo Burlon spoke of the devout group of followers who wear his clothes in the show notes, claiming, "the people who wear my clothes want to belong to my world

The show notes that awaited guests at Marni's AW18 Menswear show spoke of a kind of global ethnography, a collage of anthropologists' field notes, albeit written in stanzas, made from, "collecting impressions and sensations. Connecting sights, flavours and sounds". This then,

I want to say that there’s something rather 80’s, workwear casual about the MSGM collection. It’s in the cut of the trousers. They’re that sort of dad jean shape, wider than what we’re used to from recent years, and cut straight so,

Every time I look at an Emporio Armani show, my first thought is always American Gigolo, and Richard Gere. American Gigolo because I now, 10 years into trying to be a gigolo and not being one, am jealous. Secondly, Richard

There’s always a thread of Sicily running through a Dolce & Gabbana collection. Be it a yearning for simpler times, or an essay in baroque excess, an undercurrent of that small Mediterranean island always runs through. This season, Domenico and Stefano

If Dolce was Hyacinth Bucket’s wet dream of a three piece suite, then Versace is surely Hugh Hefner’s. You have to give it to Donatella Versace, who else sends out a collection you not only want to wear but also furnish

There’s something in the top heavy, drop shouldered silhouette at Les Hommes that immediately brings to mind Vizzini, the small evil one who thought he could out smart the masked, imposter Zorro in a game of who will drink the