Milan Fashion Week SS21: visible bras, a return to glamour and all the trends you need to know now

Where we’ve seen it:

Marni, Etro, Fendi, Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini

What you need to know:

Marni’s creative director Francesco Risso delved into the label’s archives for SS21, reconstituting pieces from past collections into fresh looks with revolutionary spirit, modelled by people he admired from all over the world as they went about their everyday business. “It’s devoted to freedom, self-expression, to celebrating the hand that painted all those objects that create the canvas of Marni,” Risso told Vogue during a video call prior to the SS21 digital unveiling.

The full-skirting stood out—far from being nostalgic, Marni’s voluminous shapes feel very now, offering a celebration of movement and spotlighting the character that clothes take on in the open air. Something we all hold a little dearer as we continue to navigate periods of self-confinement.

4. The trend: press continue on beige

Where we’ve seen it:

Sportmax, Sunnei, Alberta Ferretti

What you need to know:

Milan Fashion Week’s stance of the concept of a ‘trend’? Ignore any outmoded ideas of single-season fashion and hold on to the classics. The wardrobe of taupe/oatmeal/beige separates that eclipsed all other trends last year has endless unused style mileage remaining for 2021, as proven at Sportmax and Alberta Ferretti, with Sunnei’s co-ed SS21 show (staged at the now-empty Lido di Milano) taking the biscuit.