Impossible to return to Milan without wondering what disaster still awaits us… In February 2020, the Covid-19 burst into Italian fashion week. In February 2022, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine occurred on the second day of the Milanese calendar. This season, the news was played out more at a national level. The Sunday 25 elections were infiltrating conversations. The rise of Giorgia Meloni’s post-fascist Fratelli d’Italia party was worrying. If there were to be a disaster, it would be neither health nor military, but political.
Wednesday September 21
Is this what Glenn Martens, artistic director of Diesel, had in mind for his show? At 12:30 p.m., the crowd waits at the Allianz Cloud Arena. We are talking about 4,800 people, including 3,000 “non-professionals”. The event is public and free, 1,600 tickets were given to fashion students in Milan. And those posted on 1er September have passed in ninety minutes. “I wanted to open Diesel up to the public, for those who have never attended a fashion show before. They deserved a real show,” said Martens to explain the expression “Diesel democracy, democratic fashion”, used in label communication.
In the center of the podium, gigantic naked bodies blown with helium and tangled provide part of the show and in passing win a Guinness World Book record for the largest inflatable sculpture ever made with its 37 meters high and 49 meters long. . On the fashion side, the brand of the OTB group demonstrates its know-how around jeans. The “lace”, tie-dye, frayed denim, cropped or oversized volumes reinvent, without denying the past, the vocabulary of a brand that knows how to remain fashionable and popular.
Meanwhile, Brad Pitt is the main character in a Reel [vidéo sur Instagram] of British Vogue. He shares his daily beauty routine for the launch of his first skincare line, Le Domaine, whose products use grapes (well known for their antioxidant properties) from Miraval, the vineyard he owns in the south of France.
The 58-year-old actor is a fashion statement. In recent months, he has delighted his fans in the most surprising outfits: for the preview of the film Bullet Train, he walked the red carpet in a relaxed jacket and skirt ensemble, as it was very hot in July in Los Angeles. More recently, he appeared in a mustard jumpsuit and orange jacket for the exhibition he shares with Nick Cave at the Sara Hildén Art Museum, Finland, as a visual artist (yes, he sculpts). To promote its products in front of the camera of British Vogue, he wears a very pretty wine-colored suit on a parma T-shirt. To the question: who do you think is the most handsome man in the world, alive or not? He answers: George Clooney. With him, that’s two.
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