While Londoners did fashion week in princess dresses that looked wonderfully defiant in the face of the storm, the Italians are all about denim. At Milan Fashion Week, show-goers’ uniforms are centring around straight-cut jeans, leather jackets and cowboy hats, for looks that toe the line between biker babe and Y2K chic.
“Italians adore their denim, and its current wave of popularity owes its thread to rising star Nicola Brognano at Blumarine,” says former British Vogue news editor Scarlett Conlon, who left London to live the Italian dream. “His denim comes spliced, low-waisted, appliquéd with butterflies – the lot. It’s a mood that fashion is embracing and Italians enthusiastically embrace as their own – think back to the likes of Fiorucci, Diesel and Pepe, who are also enjoying a revival.”
Indeed, if Milan is considered the capital of peacocking during fashion month, street-stylers are channelling their love of unapologetically outré fashion into denim. Think: triple-threat Canadian tuxedos (with denim shirts worn under jackets and jeans), and low-slung printed…
