“I’ve been thinking about how much fashion has changed,” Ms. Versace said backstage at the show on Saturday, noting that when her brother died the internet as we know it barely existed. “We just want people to enjoy life,” Ms. Versace said of a show defined by pops of goofball colors like bassinet pink, baby blue and the gold of a lamé tracksuit. “And you think, ‘You just shouldn’t have had this show.’”After a seriously misjudged effort marking his return last season to the creative helm of Zegna, Mr. Sartori scaled back, settled down and returned to the tailoring and technical know-how that are his strengths. As admiring as one is of the Milanese and their sartorial traditions, it helps when an American like Ralph Lauren shows them how to loosen up. PhotoOddly, it was the formal wear that struck the most assured note in an Emporio Armani collection representative of Giorgio Armani’s continuing design dialogue with Japan.

Source: New York Times June 18, 2017 13:41 UTC