milan fashion week
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Best Black Style From Milan Fashion Week
From Models to Moguls: These are the best styles from one of the most stylish events in Europe
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Fierce Fashion: Check Out Jodie Turner-Smith’s Stunning Style
No matter what she's wearing, "The Acolyte" actress is always fashion forward
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Black Designer Pulls Out of Milan Fashion Week, Calls For More Industry Diversity
Italian designer Stella Jean won't be showing her collection at Milan's Fashion Week until the industry does right by Black designers.
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In an Unconventional Milan Fashion Week, Versace Finally Brings Full-Figured Models to Its Runway
Much has changed since the last Milan Fashion Week in February, but while much of the fashion world has adapted to our socially-distanced reality by going virtual, Versace chose to make another major change to its traditional format: For the first time in the luxury house’s 42-year-old history, plus-sized models walked the runway of its…
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Who Is the Face of Italy? The Movement to Reform Italian Citizenship Law Makes a Fashion Statement
One day in July 2017, I was leading a media studies class I teach every summer in Rome on a field trip to the television studios of RAI, Italy’s national broadcasting company. The group was very international, comprised of local and study-abroad students representing six nationalities and a kaleidoscope of ethnic heritages. We were traveling…
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‘Mental Health Is Not Fashion’: Gucci Sparked Controversy—Again—as a Model Protested on Its Milan Runway
It’s been a long year for Gucci, as it has both sought to stay on the cutting edge of fashion and convince the world it’s made some major positive changes since the “blackface sweater” controversy that rocked the legendary fashion house this January. But proving that the label still loves to provoke, creative director Alessandro…
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Love, Italian Style: #BlackGirlMagic at Milan Fashion Week
Black girls have been ruling the runways this Milan Fashion Week (Feb. 21-Feb. 28). Case in point: For the first time since Naomi Campbell’s opening strut back in 1997, Prada tapped a black model to open its fashion show (Jourdan Dunn is the only other black model to be booked by this global powerhouse brand…