Siren Heart Milano Street Style…

There was just too much fash fodder to limit the Milano Street Style to just one blog!

Here are a few of the more colourful characters I spied lining the cobblestones.

How genius is the orange suit guy in head-to-toe hue, complete with cigar! And the ‘Fashion Victims’ glasses on denim dude are too ridic not to share!

Enjoy!!

AR x

Milano Fashion Week

“Let’s just have a good time; we got it comin’.” was the opening track of the Moschino show and in these days of downturn, you can imagine the Italians clinging to the sentiments of that song. And we all revered the Italians for delivering everything we’ve grown to love and expect from them: a week filled with glamour, colour and energy. Vivre Milano!

There were monochromatic glimpses, following on from NYCFW to indicate we’ll inevitably be heading in that direction. Prada, Missoni, Marni and Pucci – houses all renowned for their use of colour divulged completely monochromatic pieces in an iconoclastic move.

But when the Milanese did do colour they went over the top, with colour worn head-to-quite-literally-toe with sunglasses, bags and shoes matched to outfits like at Gucci. Antonio Marras and Blumarine showed almost the entire spectrum of the rainbow palette.

Prints were everywhere. Paisley at Etro, Python at Just Cavalli, and more bizarrely street-theatre puppets, and collectible head-shaped vases and dishes at Dolce and Gabbana. Strikingly lacking in prints was Emilio Pucci – the house that was virtually built on the print.

Artisanship of Japan was referenced everywhere with reworked Kimonos at Prada, Etro and Pucci.

Constructed, futuristic uppers at Fendi will definitely be the most coveted shoe of the season with a style that almost subtly referenced the Sydney Opera House…maybe Karl dashed down under for his inspiration??? Although the creeper of the week has to be the fabulous Beth Ditto from Gossip belting out her hit “Standing in the Way of Control” at the Versus parade.

Below are my selects of the week…which one’s your fav????

 

Amber Renae x

 

SoleSiren: Milano Strada Stile

Or Milan Street Style, to you and me! Just trying to get a bit fancy with the local lingo, as you do when in Rome, or err Milan. It was a pretty spectacular week spotting some of the biggest names in fashion strutting the streets. Once I saw Franca Sozzani, Editor in Chief of Vogue Italia walking her dog in stilettos and head-to-toe couture on the Monte Napoleone!!! But the biggest fashgasm came when I saw my personal style icon, Anna Della Russo flashing past! Would love to share these pics with you but alas I was too busy stupidly staring to snap a flash! Rookie!

All perfect inspiration for the observing fashionista, and many a times I was asking myself ‘why didn’t I come up with that?!’. I love being challenged as a stylist and seeing the new prints-on-prints slash pop-of-colour slash statement accessory.

There were too many favourites to choose from, but below is a selection of snaps I took for you.

Favoloso!! (Fabulous that is, and they say it with such enthusiasm…might just take this saying home with me!)

Amber Renae

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