Milan Fashion Week|Men's Fashion Spring/Summer 2012 Collections(Schedule)

Saturday, June 18, 2011
9.30 CST / 3:30am EST - Corneliani, via Manzoni, 40
10.30 CST / 4:30am EST – Ermenegildo Zegna, via Savona, 56a
12.30 CST / 6:30am EST - Costume National Homme, via Tortona, 58
14.00 CST / 8:00am EST - Dolce&Gabbana, Viale Piave, 24
15.00 CST / 9:00am EST – Jil Sander, via Beltrami, 5
16.00 CST / 10:00am EST – Frankie Morello, via Palermo, 10
17.00 CST / 11:00am EST – Burberry Prorsum, C.So Venezia, 16
18.00 CST / 12:00pm EST - John Varvatos, Corso Italia, 21
19.00 CST / 1:00pm EST - Roberto Cavalli, via San Luca, 3
20.00 CST / 2:00pm EST - Neil Barrett, TBA

 Saturday, June 18, 2011 Presentations
9.00-19.00 CST / 3:00am-1:00pm EST - Jimmy Choo, via Manzoni, 7
16.00-19.00 CST / 10:00am-1:00pm EST - Umit Benan, via Bigli, 11/A


Saturday, June 19, 2011
9.30 CST / 3:30am EST - Bottega Veneta, via Privata Ercole Marelli, 6
10.30 CST / 4:30am EST - Emporio Armani, via Bergognone, 59
11.30 CST / 5:30am EST – Ermanno Scervino, via Manzoni, 37
12.30 CST / 6:30am EST - Salvatore Ferragamo, Piazza Affari, 6
14.00 CST / 8:00am EST - Gianfranco Ferre, via Pontaccio, 21
15.00 CST / 9:00am EST - Vivienne Westwood, via Turati, 34
16.00 CST / 10:00am EST - Calvin Klein Collection, vaile Umbria, 37
17.00 CST / 11:00am EST - Trussardi, Piazza Della Scala, 5
18.00 CST / 12:00pm EST - Prada, via Fogazzaro, 36
19.00 CST / 1:00pm EST - Moncler Gamme Bleu, via Zarotto
20.00 CST / 2:00pm EST - Missoni, via Thaon de Revel, 21

Sunday, June 19, 2011 Presentations
11.00-17.00 CST / 5:00am-11:00am EST - Bally, via Brera, 9
15.00-18.00 CST / 9:00am-12:00pm EST - Carlo Pignatelli Outside, via Ennio, 6/A

Monday, June 20, 2011
9.30 CST / 3:30am EST - Dirk Bikkembergs Sport Couture, via San Luca, 3
10.30 CST / 4:30am EST - Iceberg, via Palermo, 10
11.30 CST / 5:30am EST - John Richmond, Giardini di POrta Venzia
12.30 CST / 6:30am EST - Gucci, Piazza Oberdan, 2/B
14.00 CST / 8:00am EST - Etro, via Piranesi, 14
15.00 CST / 10:00am EST - D&G, Viale Piave, 24
16.00 CST / 11:00am EST - Canali, via Savona, 56
17.00 CST / 11:00am EST - Z Zegna, via Savona, 56 A
18.00 CST / 12:00pm EST - Alexander McQueen, TBA
19.00 CST / 1:00pm EST - Moschino, TBA
20.00 CST / 2:00pm EST - Versace, via Gesu, 12

Monday, June 20, 2011 Presentations
9.00-14.00 CST / 3:00am-8:00am EST - Pringle of Scotland, TBA
10.00-19.00 CST / 4:00am-1:00pm EST - Daks Sport, via Vivaio, 8
10.00-19.00 CST / 4:00am-1:00pm EST - Fratelli Rossetti, Piazza San Carlo, 2
11.00-18.00 CST / 5:00am-12:00pm EST - Marc Jacobs Men, via Argelati, 22
11.00-19.00 CST / 5:00am-1:00am EST - Massimo Sforza, via Sant Andrea, 3
13.00-18.00 CST / 7:00am-12:00pm EST - Cesare Paciotti, via Sant Andrea, 8
14.00-19.00 CST / 8:00am-1:00pm EST - Italia Independent, via Pestalozzi, 4
18.000-21.00 CST / 12:00pm-3:00pm EST - Larusmiani – PIazza del Duomo, 21
18.00-22.00 CST / 12:00pm-4:00pm EST - Brioni, via Gesu, 4

Tuesday, June 21, 2011
9.30 CST / 3:30am EST - DSquared2, via San Luca, 3
10.30 CST / 4:30am EST - Giorgio Armani, via Bergognone, 59
11.30 CST / 5:30am EST - Gazzarrini, TBA
12.30 CST / 6:30am EST - Ports 1961, via Amedei, 8
13.30 CST / 7:30am EST - Nicole Farhi, TBA
14.30 CST / 8:30am EST - Enrico Coveri, TBA

Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Presentations
10.00-14.00 CST / 4:00am-8:00am EST - Belstaff, via Stendhal, 35
10.00-18.00 CST / 4:00am-12:00pm EST - Marc Jaobs Men, via Argelati, 22
10.00-19.30 CST / 4:00am-1:30pm EST – De Wan, via Pontaccio, 8

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Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2011 Collection

Baby, you're a star.

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Versace Fall 2011 Collection

I have two lips.

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Emilio Pucci Fall/Winter 2011-2012 (men looks)

D&G Fall 2011 Collection

F is for fashion, and also for fabulous.

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Gucci Fall 2011 Collection

You don't bring me flowers.

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Moncler Gamme Bleu Fall/Winter 2011-2012 -- The Royal Dog Show

Matthew Schneier review

One of the favorite guessing games of Milan fashion week involves Thom Browne and what kind of spectacle he might be preparing for his always-elaborate Moncler Gamme Bleu show. Last season, it was bicyclists at the Velodrome; the one before, in Florence, a barracks full of slumbering soldiers. This time around, the designer laid the scene at Centro Ippico Lombardo, a horse track a ways out of town.

At trumpet's call, five horsemen, in long red Moncler riding coats bearing the Browne tricolor stripe, trotted out to greet the chilly crowd. And then came the guys on foot, each trailing a reluctant beagle or two. The hunt gave Thom his juice. Cue jodhpurs, high boots, saddlebags, and puffer parkas stitched with shooting patches.

A red rider's coat in the Moncler archive was the departure point for all this. It set Browne on a spin through the fabrics of the chassé, the English houndstooths, and Prince of Wales checks you'd find at a country house party. There were tried-and-true Browneisms—a smattering of shorts suits, some collared with soft Mongolian lamb—and plenty of the quilted, covetable puffer coats that fly off shelves. But it seemed almost churlish to focus on them in the midst of so much spectacle.

Lord knows where Browne will go next season, but likely on hiatus from animal acts. The showman had a word of advice to those seeking to follow in his dramaturgical wake: "Don't work with dogs."

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Burberry Prorsum Fall/Winter 2011-2012 Menswear

Approaching the fall/winter 2011-2012 season with endless color and exaggerated proportions, Burberry Chief Creative Officer Christopher Bailey looked to a coat for all seasons. Creating his very own weather boy, Bailey’s outerwear stole the show as usual. Embracing the unexpected, the 60′s provided the inspiration for slick raincoats, quilted finishes and a rainbow of checks. Gathering pleats and reworking tweed, Bailey once again delivered an easily cool showing for a timeless label.

Tim Blanks review

There is, in case you haven't noticed, a royal wedding about to go down in London, so it was tempting to extract regal references from Christopher Bailey's latest collection for the most heritage-based of all English fashion companies. The neat little coats were the sort of thing young princes might have sported in days gone by, and the ermine-look fur trim had obvious royal connotations, even it was in fact something called "jaguar mink." But the real backstory was both bigger—and smaller. Small first. In the bottomless Burberry archives that are such an inspiration to him, Bailey found an ad campaign from the early sixties where every single image was photographed in different weather conditions. And that—cue the big picture—instantly led him along to the current, utterly ga-ga global weather situation.

Bailey is nothing if not focused. He decided on a coat for all seasons as his theme for Fall 2011, and that's exactly what he offered. There were myriad accompanying permutations of skinny pants, suits, and knitwear that was lacquered or cable knit in combo with furry doeskin. But the Main Event was The Coat in weights that were variously suitable for rain or wind or snow. Here's testament to focus—just as with Bailey's aviator jacket collection last Fall, almost every single coat was an object of lust, from the buffalo-check biggie that opened the show to the "jaguar mink" coat that closed it. Bailey used color astutely—an orange duffel, a pea-green military coat—but he also nailed subdued city camels and tweeds (fur-collared for luxe). And he closed his show with a full-on catwalk rainstorm, courtesy of his special-effects team. The only other designer who dared corral the elements was Alexander McQueen. In his own, much more subtle way, Bailey is as daring.

The kicker for the whole event is that every coat is available on Burberry.com until January 23. "Personalizing technology" is Bailey's game plan. "It makes the whole world smaller, more intimate," he said after the show. Sure, it's a spur to sales, but it goes beyond that; Bailey's acknowledgement of the universality of what he's doing is as timely as the inescapability of the climactic conditions that inspired his latest work.

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Dolce & Gabbana Fall/Winter 2011-2012 - RED LOOKS

Embracing fiery red and rich furs for their fall/winter 2011-2012 collection, Dolce & Gabbana infused their prized Italian machismo with a youthful zest. Shaking up their usual casting with a variety of faces, the designing duo put on display a myriad of influences. From the classic musical styling of Bryan Ferry to the label’s ongoing fascination with the working man or a spunky take on tomorrow’s scholar, Dolce & Gabbana impressed with velvet, color and an endless amount of charm. Rounding out the collection with pinstripes, braces and wingtips, the label put a cool new spin on the marriage of old and new style motifs.

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Dolce & Gabbana Fall/Winter 2011-2012 Menswear

Embracing fiery red and rich furs for their fall/winter 2011-2012 collection, Dolce & Gabbana infused their prized Italian machismo with a youthful zest. Shaking up their usual casting with a variety of faces, the designing duo put on display a myriad of influences. From the classic musical styling of Bryan Ferry to the label’s ongoing fascination with the working man or a spunky take on tomorrow’s scholar, Dolce & Gabbana impressed with velvet, color and an endless amount of charm. Rounding out the collection with pinstripes, braces and wingtips, the label put a cool new spin on the marriage of old and new style motifs.

Click to view Dolce & Gabbana Fla/Winter 2011-2011 RED LOOKS

fur jackets....

Tim Blanks review

There was a brilliant Dries Van Noten show some years back that celebrated Bryan Ferry's early-seventies leopard-clad glamness, but his subsequent career as rock's Most Elegant Man has been a significantly under-exploited inspiration in contemporary menswear. Until today, that is, when Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana made him the launchpad for their latest collection. Ferry's record covers were all over the mood board, his music was all over the show, and there he was on the seasonal "icon" T-shirt. It seemed entirely appropriate, then, that the man himself was front-row center. But the show's theme, Sartoria Eccentrica, actually had much less to do with Ferry's own classic style than the designers' re-tailoring of anything classic, starting at Savile Row, for a much younger audience.

The singer's taste for West End girls is well-documented—the beauteous Amanda Sheppard was at his side today. The clothes on the runway, though, were better suited to East End boys. Low-rise, multi-pocketed pants were slung off skinny suspenders. One model sported Freddy Krueger stripes and a trilby casually tossed back on his head. There was a spiffy edge to a checked, fitted, double-breasted jacket, while cropped, double-vented jackets and those pegged, low-slung pants created a boxy, bubble-butted silhouette that added beef to the already buff models. Add that to the chunky, bovver-ready footwear and these boys were a bit of rough fighters, not lovers. But wasn't Bryan Ferry famously a slave to love?

Domenico and Stefano threw the lovers a bone with a couple of pavé-sequined jackets in pink and black, then they closed the show with their own quintessential march past of black velvet jackets and distressed Dolce denims. Call it glam for a brash, butch new age. As for Ferry's more rarified brand of contemporary glamour? That remains to be explored another day.

source: Style.com/