MILAN — The upcoming version of Milan Vogue Week is about to open with a bang, in keeping with the preliminary schedule offered by the Italian vogue chamber on Wednesday.
Working Jan. 12 to 16, the occasion will kick-start with Sabato De Sarno debuting his menswear imaginative and prescient for Gucci at 3 p.m. CET. Sandwiched between Billionaire and the Dsquared2 coed vogue present, Stone Island can even stage its first runway present later that day within the metropolis’s La Cattedrale industrial house.
“As we embark on this subsequent chapter for Stone Island, Milan Males’s Vogue Week gives us with the platform to assemble our group collectively and share Stone Island’s new manifesto, which speaks to the distinctive legacy, values and mission of this iconic model,” stated Robert Triefus, the previous Gucci govt who was appointed chief govt officer of the Moncler-owned outerwear firm earlier this 12 months.
On the presentation entrance, the inaugural day will characteristic Brunello Cucinelli, Boglioli and the debut within the official schedule of rising label Mordecai, launched earlier this 12 months by former Moncler designer Ludovico Bruno. As reported, Kiton can even stage the “Tailoring College. A Journey Into Training” showcase in partnership with the Triennale Milano museum to rejoice its in-house academy and highlight the significance of expertise and the coaching of a brand new era of tailors.
The next day will mark the flip of the likes of Fendi, Emporio Armani, MSGM, Neil Barrett and Philipp Plein to stage their vogue exhibits, whereas the Woolrich Black Label by Todd Snyder will make its debut by way of a presentation format.
The promoting marketing campaign for Milan Males’s Vogue Week in January.
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As reported, Etro earmarked Jan. 14 to unveil its new males’s tailoring assortment, chopping the ribbon of its first retailer solely devoted to the road and the made-to-order service in Milan’s By way of Montenapoleone. The style home will skip a runway occasion this season, choosing a coed present in February.
Moschino can be lacking from the schedule, because it already offered its males’s fall 2024 assortment this month, alongside its girls’s pre-fall 2024 vary. The lineup was conceived by an in-house design crew, whereas the artistic helm of the model stays vacant after the tragic and sudden loss of life of Davide Renne.
Additionally in a transitional section because it awaits for Matteo Tamburini’s begin in February, Tod’s will current its males’s fall 2024 assortment on Jan. 14. The day will likely be filled with the much-anticipated exhibits of Prada at 2 p.m. CET and JW Anderson at 7 p.m. CET in addition to different debuts. These will embrace the primary present in Milan of Pronounce, the Shanghai-based vogue label based by Yushan Li and Jun Zhou; the launch of Establishment, the solo brainchild of Act N.1’s former designer Galib Gassanoff; and the primary males’s assortment by footwear label Stuart Weitzman, amongst others.
Giorgio Armani and Zegna will reprise their common time slots on Jan. 15, with the previous staging its present at 11 a.m. CET at its storied headquarters on By way of Borgonuovo, and the latter securing the three p.m. CET timing however not disclosing particulars on the placement but.
Filippo Grazioli can even current his newest menswear effort for Missoni that day, together with Dhruv Kapoor, Lessico Familiare and indie model Noskra.
As per post-pandemic custom, the closing day will characteristic solely digital showcases — primarily from indie manufacturers — rounding the overall variety of appointments within the schedule throughout exhibits, shows and occasions to 74.
The promoting marketing campaign for Milan Males’s Vogue Week in January.
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Assessing the ever-increasing influence of Milan Vogue Week on the economic system of the entire metropolis, the native municipality stated that the occasion in September broke data, producing 88 million euros in gross sales throughout eating places, transportation, inns and different companies.
The Italian vogue chamber’s chairman Carlo Capasa supplied up to date gross sales projections for 2023, as a substitute. Gross sales generated by the nation’s vogue and linked industries (together with textiles, clothes, leather-based items, footwear, jewellery, eyewear and cosmetics) are anticipated to develop 4 % to 102.8 billion euros in comparison with final 12 months.
Capasa underscored that gross sales of males’s attire and equipment particularly grew 5 % versus final 12 months and account for 20 % out of the overall gross sales generated in these product classes.
The cautious forecast of the general gross sales for the present 12 months is the results of a slowdown registered within the third quarter of 2023. The retail channel confirmed explicit fatigue, with gross sales of attire down 4.7 % and 5 % in September and October, respectively, and footwear gross sales reducing 3.4 % and three % in the identical months.
In response to knowledge shared by the group, general gross sales projections for 2024 will observe this 12 months’s enhance fee and be up between 3 % and 4 %.
As for exports in 2023, they’re projected to develop 5 % to 90.6 billion euros in 2023, versus final 12 months.
Within the first eight months of 2023, exports continued to be a key driver for the trade, rising 6.3 % general, however at a distinct velocity in keeping with the totally different classes. Within the core sectors — textiles, clothes, leather-based items, footwear — they have been up 3.2 %, whereas they climbed 16 % within the jewellery, eyewear and cosmetics classes, in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months.
The highest locations for Italian vogue within the interval have been France, Germany and the U.S., adopted by Switzerland and China.
