Welcome to the Subversive Style Fashion, Beauty, Lifestyle Podcast. I’m Perry Uwanawich- the designer of Auric Wear. I'm wearing the witch-totem unisex muscle tee in black, available at AuricWear.com and Auric Wear's Etsy Shop.
Today's episode is on Milan Fashion Week Spring 2023, listen to or watch my previous episodes on London and New York Fashion Weeks- video is available on Spotify and youtube, and visit subversive.style blog for the full post with galleries.
Milan Fashion Week Spring 2023
Milan Fashion Week is more substantive than NYFW and LFW while covering the same trends and extending some from the Fall collections. With the exception of Bluemarine, I’d say it is still rather underwhelming and unremarkable.
Runway Trends from Milan Fashion Week for Spring 2023
Trends that continued from the runways of New York Fashion Week & London Fashion Week:
Sheer Pants and skirts Body Suits, Jumpsuits, Utilitarian, Peak lapels.
2000s Aesthetic: Color Blocking All Denim Everything Low-rise pants and jeans
90s Aesthetic: Undergarments as ready-to-wear: A modern twist on the slip dress and its layering atop t-shirts in the 90s styling as well as MSGM’s graphic tees featuring lingerie prints.
Antonio Marras: Floral prints and border prints, landscape painting photo-prints, color blocking and patchwork, jumpsuits, short sleeve button-ups, shorts, flannel shirts, wool sweaters, cut-out jackets of skirt suits, a hanbok and kimono, meggings… The color palette is made up of army green, green, grey-white-blue tartan, red, burgundy, camel, black, charcoal, greige, white, and tan. The fabric selection includes wool rib knit, jersey, silk satin, twills, embroidered silk wool suiting, nylon, dupioni, grey and black plaid suiting, lace used in menswear, and eyelet
DSquared^2: Lace blazers, pants, and skirts; scuba-inspired crop tops; spaghetti strap dresses layered atop pants; a playful take on the slip-dresses of the 90s; and capri pants. The color palette is rather bold, with highly saturated hues of neon orange and green stripes, venom, tangerine, light blue, raspberry and kiwi geometric print, kelly green snakeskin, banana and black windowpane, white, black, and grey.
Prada: That’s neither a jumpsuit nor a catsuit- it’s a button-up onesie and needs to be burned. Silky slip dresses, oversized coats sheer skirts and dresses, and an interesting melding of menswear and womenswear characterize the Prada Spring 2023 collection. The fabric of the coats and hoodies, which either wrinkles easily but more likely appears to have intentional whiskers pressed in at the elbow, works best in the draped mini dress. The color palette includes fifty shades of grey, black, gold dijon, light blue, cobalt, red, chartreuse, tangerine, pomegranate, brown, camel, and white. The fabric selection is made up of cotton shirting, poplin, georgette, silk charmeuse, wool knit, and black leather.
Bluemarine: All denim everything: the Canadian tuxedo is oh so 2000s, and Bluemarine made it its bitch with cross-shaped tops, full-length sweetheart neckline dresses, floor-length skirts, studded button-ups, corsets, low-rise jeans, skirts, and deconstructed tops and dresses made entirely of the yarns of this iconic drill that shaped the world of casual iconic fashion. The lettuce hemlines and eyelet straps evoke the nineties.
Ports 1961: Cording braided and knit into chunky-knit dresses and sweaters with a fringe effect. The 2000s are evoked in the tear-away waistline of the long coat, as well as in the color blocking. The 90s are given an updated homage with the new take on the slip dress- a rather modern nod to the styling trends of the decade we all reminisce on so fondly.
