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The coolest event of the year is now coming to an end, but there is no story that passes without leaving something behind. Milan Fashion Week 2022 makes no exception, and this edition also gives its audience shots and new trends that will keep us company throughout the entire coming seasons. But, how is Milan Fashion Week born and what do the most coveted catwalks tell us this year? Let’s find it out together!
Milan Fashion Week: what is it and how is it born?
According to what some voices running through chiffon skirts, satin dresses and five-inch heels tell us, it seems that Milan Fashion Week was created in 1958 by the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, thus obtaining a place of honour between the “Big Four”, the famous and long catwalks that link the Global Fashion Capitals: New York (where the program begins), London, Milan and Paris (where it ends).
In particular, Milan Fashion Week is held twice a year. In February, in fact, are showed the fall-winter collections; whereas between September and October the spring-summer ones. Everything happens in special locations, from the most traditional (Lo Spazio Cavallerizze of the Nation Museum of Science; La Sala delle Cariatidi of the Royal Palace, and the Padiglione Visconti, which is part of the laboratories of La Scala) to the most unusual ones, such as the well-known Piazza Duomo which, this year, hosted an avant-garde show in occasion of Moncler’s 70th anniversary.
This year, Milan Fashion Week is in Green
One of the most recurring themes through the last years is certainly the sustainability one, which now seems to have taken hold even in the word of fashion. And in fact, in occasion of Milan Fashion Week 2022, the theme of being Green colours a huge part of the events proposed. One example of this is the show which took place in Palazzo Berri-Meregalli, a venue that welcomed all the brands taking part to the “Sustainable Fashion” project by Friend of the Earth.
These brands have in fact proposed their collections made of sustainable clothes, thus showing a commendable sensitivity to the respect and valorisation of our environment. For example, among the brands we can mention there is the one created by the Brazilian designer Carolina Bartolini, whose peculiarity is to use natural dyes made from seeds and fruits.
Or Dona Rufina, who tries to reduce waste by using ancient wool processing techniques, that allow her to use even those fibres that would be thrown by others.
The attention and respect for the environment are thus celebrated by Milan Fashion Week which – so to encourage other brands in a more conscious use of raw materials – has once again given space to the CNMI Sustainable Fashion Awards: the awards used to recognize the merit of the designers who have showed a particular attention to our planet.
Now, let’s close this small parenthesis on the word of fashion, a word that seems more and more conscious of its carbon footprint and that – for this reason – we appreciate more than before. As a matter of fact, at Moni Lisa we strongly believe in the value and preciousness of nature, whose beauty, thanks to our art, we try to make immortal day by day. And what could be more beautiful and timeless than a tiny sparrow eternally resting on a coral branch?
