Mood board: In recent seasons, brands have been recalibrating their concept of sexuality. Post #MeToo, as the awareness of the male gaze has become heightened, male designers and women alike are questioning how we can be both provocative and powerful. Max Mara knows strong dressing inside out. Its 101801 wool and cashmere coat has been a powerful woman’s wardrobe mainstay since 1981. Glamour was a particular style note of this decade, and it’s a look Italian brand’s are well versed in. See Versace, Cavalli and Fendi. This was the main inspiration behind Max Mara’s A/W 2019 offering, with creative director Ian Griffiths referencing Linda Evangelista as an autumn icon. Silhouettes were strong, wider, boxier and leggier. Utilitarian and executive. Imagined in shades of black, caramel and beige, with pops of highly saturated colour and a swathe of sensual animal prints.
Best in show: Max Mara is the progenitor of beige, and it’s the tone dominating the A/W 2019 catwalk and the street style scene outside the shows. Griffith opened the show with three models strutting down the catwalk together, wearing wool blazers, mohair cardigans and knee high boots, in monochromatic cyan, cerulean and corn yellow. The proceeding beige oversized jackets, houndstooth coats and wide tweed trousers also made for punchy power dressing.
Scene setting: Max Mara switched up its usual show venue location, bringing guests to a vast subterranean atrium at Universita Luigi Bocconi. The stark space was built by Italian practice Grafton Architects in 2008. When the women attend this year's graduate, we know what they’ll want to be wearing.
Max Mara A/W 2019.
Max Mara A/W 2019.
Max Mara A/W 2019.
Max Mara A/W 2019.
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Dine within a rationalist design gem at the newly opened Cucina TriennaleCucina Triennale is the latest space to open at Triennale Milano, a restaurant and a café by Luca Cipelletti and Unifor, inspired by the building's 1930s design
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The collections you might have missed this S/S 2026 menswear seasonBetween the headliners in Paris, Milan and Florence, a few off-schedule displays are deserving of honourable mention – from Martine Rose’s sexually-charged portrait of Kensington Market to Sander Lak’s appointment-only namesake debut
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Meet artist Michael McGregor, using hotel stationery as his canvasMichael McGregor unveils an exclusive postcard set made with notepads from The Luxury Collection properties in Minneapolis, San Francisco and Savannah
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The collections you might have missed this S/S 2026 menswear season
Between the headliners in Paris, Milan and Florence, a few off-schedule displays are deserving of honourable mention – from Martine Rose’s sexually-charged portrait of Kensington Market to Sander Lak’s appointment-only namesake debut
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Let there be light: a closer look at Prada’s stripped-back S/S 2026 show set‘This is the first time the Fondazione is completely bare, with the light coming in,’ said Raf Simons backstage at Prada’s ‘light, fresh, colourful’ and ‘human’ S/S 2026 men’s show in Milan
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The standout shows of Milan Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026: Prada to DunhillWallpaper* picks the very best of Milan Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026, from Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’ ‘light, fresh’ and ‘human’ display to Dunhill’s exploration of English dress codes
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Milan Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026: live updates from the Wallpaper* teamFrom 20-23 June, Milan Fashion Week Men’s arrives in the Italian fashion capital. Follow along for a first look at the shows, presentations and other fashion happenings, as seen by the Wallpaper* editors
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With an ode to Italy, Homme Plissé Issey Miyake brings its brand of fashion magic to Florence’s Pitti UomoMarking the start of a new nomadic way of showing for the Japanese label, Homme Plissé Issey Miyake held its S/S 2026 show at Florence’s Villa Medicea della Petraia as part of Pitti Uomo last night (18 June) with a collection inspired by the colours and textures of Italy
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What the Wallpaper* editors are looking forward to at Men’s Fashion Week S/S 2026As Men’s Fashion Week S/S 2026 begins in Florence, the Wallpaper* style team select the moments they will be looking out for – from Jonathan Anderson’s anticipated Dior debut to outings from Wales Bonner, Kiko Kostadinov and Prada
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50 years of Santoni, the footwear brand steeped in Italian craft, celebrated in a new bookInside ‘Santoni Meraviglia’, a richly illustrated new tome published by Assouline that tells the story behind the Italian brand’s meticulously crafted footwear
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‘The White Lotus’ meets La Dolce Vita: inside Mytheresa and Dolce & Gabbana’s Taormina takeoverWallpaper* travels to Taormina, Sicily, where a two-day celebration of the latest Dolce & Gabbana x Mytheresa collaboration centred around San Domenico Palace, A Four Seasons Hotel – the filming location of ‘The White Lotus’ season two
