Milan Fashion Week always involves shoes.
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Some Shoes from Milan 25
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Keeping Up is Harder and Harder
These days it is harder and harder keeping up with who is where in the fashion business. The past week has been a checker board of movement.
Stay tuned for our Before Tacky Podcast on what is happening.
Demna takes over at Gucci.
Donatella is out at Versace.
Jonathan quits Loewe.
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Calvin Klein Returns
The most anticipated runway show on the New York Fashion Week calendar, Calvin Klein. After several years off the schedule the iconic label announced a new collection would be shown from a new creative head. Veronica Leoni, the Italian designer took charge of the famed brand. Calvin Klein transcended fashion, from jeans, slogans, scents, ads and commercials, the New York clothier became a part of the cultural landscape.
Mixing minimalism, athleticism and sensuality a Calvin Klein became one of the top fashion brands in the world.
I’m a sexual person, and that’s reflected in my clothes and my advertisements. Calvin Klein
After selling the company to PVH in 2002, Klein stepped away from the fashion world. Raf Simons briefly took the helm from 2016 to 2018. What looked like a perfect fit on paper, soon became a slow-moving clash between creative vision and corporate reality, the Belgium designer left. After the departure, Calvin Klein stopped presenting runway shows. Instead corporate heads focused on the lucrative under garments, accessories and perfume lines.
Now, Veronica is at bat, the first female to head CK. The former Celine and The Row designer has the task of breathing new life into the iconic fifty-seven year old clothier.
I would like to praise the looks but for one reason or another, the feeling of confusion enters my head. The gender mixed show included shapes and colors that came across as robotic inspired. The lack of fluid sexuality for a brand known for sex appeal got lost in the modern translation. Where were the bodies? The masculinity. The femininity.
The streamlined vertical aesthetic took a turn in Leoni’s interpretation. Taken away to the closet replaced with added addendums fitting the times: slouchy jackets with elongated sleeves.
Was this a great collection from Calvin Klein? I expect to see a more concise line the next time.
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Couture Week Looks 2
Paris Fashion Week Couture continues.
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Japan in the Style House
At Pitti Uomo, the words new technique are applied to the Japanese textile houses and brands. The final feel of the pieces shown in Florence is a bolt of blue. The JQ exhibit in the center building is always fascinating because of the way the fabrics feel: light and fine. The same question: How? The way the producers handle cashmere and silk should motivate designers to study the material process in Japan. Why these shirts and suits are not sold in major stores in the West is a mystery.
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Brett Johnson’s New Look
From Milan Fashion Week Men, luxury fashion brand Brett Johnson showed off a new collection with a new slant on details using lavish materials.
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Dandy Fashion 2025 at Pitti Uomo
Milan Fashion Week Men 2025 starts January 17th. For all the coverage on the latest menswear style from Italy keep looking here.
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A Birkin at WALMART! YES!
Just when you thought the luxury handbag narrative could not get any crazier, it does. Now retail giant Walmart has entered the fray. The Bentonville discounter chain introduced a version of an iconic bag and social media has gone wild over the copy. Birkin handbags are suppose to be the exclusive domain of the rich and famous with buyers sometimes waiting for years to purchase the ultimate accessory. Walmart made getting hands on one, at least a sort of respectable fake, a bit easier with a dupe that looks almost exactly like the famous piece at a price of only $78. Given the recent headlines of heritage brands skimping on handbag craftsmanship, perhaps, maybe the “Wirkin” is worth the investment.
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Trends in 25
Trends 2025
The Luxury HandBag Bubble could pop as buyers turn away from overpriced labels.
Quiet Luxury continues to make inroads but expect a consumer shift away from big brands.
Hyper Fast Fashion will continue to dominate the headlines and consumer wallets. The app shopping platforms show no signs of slowing down.
An easy one to predict, more brick-and-mortar stores will close.
Experience shopping will evolve, with more customers searching for expertise and personal retail.
Gender free style will slowly fade away as society shifts to a more conservative outlook.
Sustainable fashion, buyers are shopping based their wallets not their conscience.
Will young people go on the conformity road or more individualistic path?