Sparkling in the rain: Milan’s street style wannabes

Cyprien Richiardi did not have an invitation for the Giorgio Armani catwalk show on Monday but that did not make it any less of a must-keep appointment for him on a dank, drizzly morning. “When there is fashion you have to be on the spot, even if it is raining you have to come out,” Richiardi told AFP in a brief break from strutting his stuff up and down the closed-off road outside the Teatro Armani for the benefit of a posse of paparazzi. With his military-style greatcoat and his gold-sprayed basketball boots, Richiardi is doing well in the attention-grabbing stakes, his electic look completed by a dandyish bowtie and a flamboyant headcovering that looks like a nod to his African heritage.

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Sparkling in the rain: Milan’s street style wannabes

Burberry dazzles, Kane surprises at London Fashion Week

British fashion giant Burberry Prorsum put the sparkle into London Fashion Week Monday, before Scottish designer Christopher Kane took his star-studded audience on a journey into the bizarre. Burberry chief executive Christopher Bailey said the collection, which will be drip fed into stores from June, was inspired by a “patchwork” of influences. “The collection is all the things that I love, a patchwork of all different things from the Mitford sisters to the military and a little bit of glam-rock,” Bailey told reporters back stage after the show, referring to six sisters who fascinated and scandalised British society of the 1930s.

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Burberry dazzles, Kane surprises at London Fashion Week