Milan Fashion Week closes with a gala promoting sustainability
3 months ago

Milan Fashion Week closes with a gala promoting sustainability

Hindustan Times  

MILAN — Milan designers wrapped up six days of runway womenswear previews with a gala award ceremony at Milan's famed Teatro alla Scala to honor innovations in sustainability. This week also marked the second edition of the Black Carpet Awards, honoring excellence among people of color living and working in Italy as a means of promoting equity. Black Carpet awards return British fashion designer Ib Kamara and Angolan supermodel Maria Borges handed out honors at the second edition of the Black Carpet Awards honoring contributions of people of color working in Italy across a variety of sectors. Honorees included shot-putter Danielle Madam, actor Alberto Malachino, Cinzia Adanna Ebonine, an educator who founded a platform to promote inclusive education, Justin Randolph Thompson, founder of Black History Month Florence, and Alice Edun, the founder of Italy’s first haircare brand for curly hair. Tokyo James touts imperfection British-Nigerian designer Tokyo James took a swipe at the fashion world's pursuit of perfection with a collection that include little misalignments, like wonky seams.

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Milan Fashion Week 2024 highlights: Armani's playful collection and Max Mara's modern silhouettes take centre stage
10 months ago

Milan Fashion Week 2024 highlights: Armani's playful collection and Max Mara's modern silhouettes take centre stage

Hindustan Times  

If there is one theme emerging at Milan Fashion Week, it is cocooning, hunkering down, enveloping one’s self in comfort clothing. Here are some highlights from mostly womenswear previews for fall-winter 2024-25 on Thursday, the second day of Milan Fashion Week: Models present creations from the Emporio Armani Fall/Winter 2024/2025 collection during Fashion Week in Milan, Italy. Creative director Ian …

Milan Fashion Week shines spotlight on emerging black designers, launches initiative to combat discrimination
10 months ago

Milan Fashion Week shines spotlight on emerging black designers, launches initiative to combat discrimination

Hindustan Times  

Milan Fashion Week highlighted diversity and in a new initiative that aims to promote inclusion across the industry and the return of a showcase for underrepresented designers as five days of mostly womenswear previews for Fall-Winter 2024-25 got underway on Wednesday. From left, designers Glen and Bruce Proctor pose for portraits in front of their creations at the fashion hub …

Milan Fashion Week showcases emerging Black designers, launches initiative to fight discrimination
10 months ago

Milan Fashion Week showcases emerging Black designers, launches initiative to fight discrimination

Associated Press  

MILAN — Milan Fashion Week highlighted diversity and in a new initiative that aims to promote inclusion across the industry and the return of a showcase for underrepresented designers as five days of mostly womenswear previews for Fall-Winter 2024-25 got underway on Wednesday. Capasa said he was approached by Premier Giorgia Meloni ’s anti-discrimination office for the initiative “to understand …

Naomi Campbell Takes Centre Stage At Milan Fashion Week 2023 For Dolce & Gabbana
1 year, 2 months ago

Naomi Campbell Takes Centre Stage At Milan Fashion Week 2023 For Dolce & Gabbana

ABP News  

Naomi Campbell, the iconic supermodel, commanded the spotlight at Milan Fashion Week 2023, strutting down the runway in the heart of Italy for the prestigious fashion house, Dolce & Gabbana. Naomi Campbell walks the runway at the Dolce&Gabbana fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dolce&Gabbana Joining the runway spectacle was …

Armani gives graceful close to Milan Fashion Week
1 year, 9 months ago

Armani gives graceful close to Milan Fashion Week

Associated Press  

MILAN — It was nipples out on the Milan Fashion Week runway this season, one of the clear trends emerging from a week of previews of mostly womenswear collections for next fall and winter. Koizumi also put out there his dream: “To be hired by as creative director of a major fashion house.” GIORGIO ARMANI’S INTIMATE PEEK INSIDE Giorgio Armani …

Diesel, Fendi, No. 21 show some skin at Milan Fashion Week
1 year, 9 months ago

Diesel, Fendi, No. 21 show some skin at Milan Fashion Week

Associated Press  

MILAN — Sexiness is in the air at Milan Fashion Week, where brands are encouraging people to show some skin next fall and winter. Here are some highlights from the first day of Milan Fashion Week mostly womenswear previews on Wednesday: DIVERSITY CELEBRATED ON THE FASHION WEEK FRINGE A party highlighting the new faces of multicultural Milan spilled out into …

Stella Jean quits Milan Fashion Week over lack of inclusion
1 year, 10 months ago

Stella Jean quits Milan Fashion Week over lack of inclusion

Associated Press  

MILAN — The only Black designer belonging to Italy’s fashion chamber withdrew Wednesday from this month’s Milan Fashion Week, alleging a lack of support for diversity and inclusion after the chamber “abandoned” a project to promote young designers of color working in Italy. “It is absurd, vile, shameful and inhuman that I must speak for people who feel their lives …

New initiative promotes diversity across sectors in Italy
2 years ago

New initiative promotes diversity across sectors in Italy

Associated Press  

MILAN — The founder of the Afro Fashion Association in Italy on Thursday said she is launching awards recognizing the achievements of minorities in Italian society, to promote greater diversity and inclusion. The first edition of the Black Carpet Awards will premier during Milan Fashion Week in February, Michelle Francine Ngonmo said she was inspired by a note she received …

Alessandra Ambrosio puts on a leggy display in tiny denim hot pants in Beverly Hills
2 years, 2 months ago

Alessandra Ambrosio puts on a leggy display in tiny denim hot pants in Beverly Hills

Daily Mail  

She's known for her incredible model figure. The Victoria's Secret star, 41, looked incredible in a pair of tiny denim hot pants for her sun-filled day riding around in her luxurious convertible. Sun-soaked: Alessandra Ambrosio, 41, put on a leggy display as she stepped out to run errands in Beverly Hills on Monday Alessandra slipped into a black vest top …

5 Africa-born designers open digital Milan Fashion Week
3 years, 9 months ago

5 Africa-born designers open digital Milan Fashion Week

Associated Press  

MILAN — Five designers of African origin making their runway debuts opened Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday under the banner “We are Made in Italy,” having nurtured dreams deemed fanciful in their native countries and which faced considerable obstacles coming to fruition in their adopted Italy. No and no and no!” The designers, dubbed “the Fab Five,” are the first …

Queensland Indigenous label to be first to grace Milan Fashion Week catwalk
4 years, 1 month ago

Queensland Indigenous label to be first to grace Milan Fashion Week catwalk

ABC  

Milan Fashion Week is synonymous with beauty, luxury and hubris. Key points: Cheryl Creed's Murrii Quu Couture is the first Indigenous Australian fashion label selected for Milan Fashion Week Ms Creed's collection will feature in the Emerging Talent category in the March 2021 event A downturn in business due to COVID-19 is forcing Ms Creed to take on part-time work …

PHOTOS | Milan Fashion Week 2020: We are Made in Italy show celebrates Black designers
4 years, 2 months ago

PHOTOS | Milan Fashion Week 2020: We are Made in Italy show celebrates Black designers

Hindustan Times  

PHOTOS | Milan Fashion Week 2020: We are Made in Italy show celebrates Black designers Black designers presented collections at Milan's fashion week in a show aimed at raising awareness of the lack of diversity in the industry. The "We are Made in Italy" digital event was filmed in Milan's grand Palazzo Clerici and hosted the spring/summer 2021 collections of …

Milan Fashion Week Pays Nod to Black Lives Matter by Celebrating Italian-African Designers
4 years, 2 months ago

Milan Fashion Week Pays Nod to Black Lives Matter by Celebrating Italian-African Designers

News 18  

When asked why there arent more people of color in the Italian fashion industry, officials have cited a lack of candidates in homogeneous Italy. Five African-born designers in Italy want to put that view to rest with their inclusion on the official Milan Fashion Week calendar Sunday. Italy is Made of Us.” The official Black Lives Matter in Italian fashion …

Black creatives in Italian fashion demand cultural reform
4 years, 4 months ago

Black creatives in Italian fashion demand cultural reform

Associated Press  

MILAN — The only Black designer belonging to Italy’s influential fashion council is demanding a “long overdue cultural reform’’ from her colleagues under the slogan: Do Black Lives Matter in Italy? “My response is: ‘Why do you see all these people filling squares from the north to the south of this country for Black Lives Matter, this entire generation of …

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