Milan Fashion Week's highlights this season include the use of sheer fabrics, relaxed silhouetes and traditional glamour.

Gucci sent a collection of furry coats, slim pencil skirts and slip dresses down the catwalk for its fall-winter show, a lineup of styles for women and men drawn up by its design studio as the Kering-owned Italian label awaits its next designer.

Milan Fashion Week attendees arrived yesterday to find the Italian fashion capital cloaked in a thick, hazy smog. The persistent gray fog was just one reason why the outset of MFW

Ancora red is out; emerald green is in. Or so it seemed during the Gucci show at the opening of Milan Fashion Week, where it was as if Sabato De Sarno, the designer who abruptly left his job earlier this month, had practically never even been there. Fashion, it turns out, is fully capable of its own revisionist history. It’s that kind of moment.

Gone is the deep Gucci red. Here is the dark Gucci green. The fashion house signaled its creative transition on the first day of Milan Fashion Week on Tuesday by sheathing the runway in a plush green carpet and pleated drapery.

Gone is the deep Gucci red. Here is the dark Gucci green. The fashion house signaled its creative transition on the first day of Milan Fashion Week on Tuesday by sheathing the showroom in a plush green carpet and pleated drapery.

From Prada to Versace, the Fall-Winter 2025 collections were a polarizing mix of creative consistency and rule-breaking liberation.

The rapid turnover of executives and creative directors at major luxury brands during the past 18 months has left some of the biggest names in fashion in a state of limbo. And nowhere has that been more apparent than on the opening days of Milan Fashion Week.

Still in a transition phase, Milan Fashion Week offered escapism this season via fun, bold collections and plenty of celebrations.

Milan Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2025 just outspiced London and New York with its chic free-the-nip extravaganza.

“Working with my stylist Dani Michelle has been such an incredible experience,” she told Harper’s Bazaar. “ She has really helped me come out of my shell and I feel more confident now when I go to events like this.”

Several guests also raised the idea of ex-Miu Miu designer Dario Vitale, who helped turn Prada’s younger sister label into the envy of Milan. One particularly hopeful Gucci fan wondered if ...