Romance blooms at Luisa Beccaria Milan fashion show

MILAN (Reuters) – Floral embroidery, bird brooches and rich velvet materials added a touch of romance at Milan Fashion Week on Thursday with Italian designer Luisa Beccaria presenting a soft, feminine womenswear collection. Reminiscent of fairy tale heroines, models wore velvet corset tops over chiffon off-shoulder blouses and later sweeping gowns. For day wear, Beccaria and her daughter Lucilla Bonaccorsi offered tartan-like, dark turquoise and black checked knitwear, tweed coats, flower-embroidered velvet jackets matched with cropped trousers and chiffon floral-printed dresses. …

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Robert Pattinson lands Dior fashion campaign

Robert Pattinson has been unveiled as the new face of Dior Homme.

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Michele adds street and grunge spicing to Gucci mix

Gucci's reinvention of womenswear's hottest megabrand continued Wednesday as designer Alessandro Michele tweaked his hugely successful androgynous, anti-fashion recipe with dashes of street art and grunge. For his third womenswear collection for the venerable Florentine house, Michele worked with the Brooklyn artist called GucciGhost, best known for his graffiti involving versions of the brand's famous logo. Two examples are used in prints splashed across many of the clothes Michele unveiled for the upcoming Autumn and Winter to a feedback-rich soundtrack in a converted railway shed.

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Gucci, Roberto Cavalli headline Day 1 of Milan Fashion Week

MILAN (AP) — Premier Matteo Renzi on Wednesday opened Milan Fashion Week for the first time, signaling a fresh government focus on the strategic center of Italian fashion.

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Milan kicks off fashion week in confident mood

Milan fashion week kicked off on a colourful note on Wednesday as Blugirl designer Anna Molinari extended the hedonistic feel of her spring collection into her outfits for next fall and winter. Three-quarter length raincoats came in floral and other vibrant prints while the collection for the younger sister to Molinari's Blumarine brand was also dotted with bright Nordic-inspired knitwear. Molinari declared last year that it was time for Italian fashion to loosen up a little and have some fun after years of gloom created by a triple-dip recession and a sense that Milan was losing its edge creatively and in terms of its rivalry with Paris and fast-rising London and New York.

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Inside Jimmy Choo’s Oscar Week Suite

Invite only: A chic peek at the designer’s Beverly Hills setup where the town’s top red-carpet stylists go to find the perfect bag and shoes for Hollywood’s biggest night.

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Dolce & Gabbana put gay parents on handbags as Italy in heated debate

Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have appeared to weigh in to an impassioned debate about gay people's rights in their home country with cozy designs showing same-sex couples with children. Last year, Dolce angered many when he used the common derogatory term “womb rental” for surrogacy, which is banned in Italy. Avid Instagram user Gabbana posted photos of handbags and t-shirts adorned with childlike drawings of family groups of two men or two women with children of various ages.

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Missoni, Ferragamo splash color during Milan Fashion Week

MILAN (AP) — The worlds of music, fashion and art continued their long collaboration on the menswear runways of Milan Fashion Week on Sunday.

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