Four stories, one thread: a historic setting turned into a stage, a maison telling the season through a single garment, a designer choosing to slow down instead of racing, a museum putting art and fashion side by side. Milan's week rarely offers such a clear line through the calendar.
The Galleria becomes a stage
On Tuesday, September 22nd, opening night, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II turns into the stage for Vogue World: Milano, the fifth stop of the travelling event created by Anna Wintour after New York, London, Paris and Los Angeles. It isn't a runway show: it's a sequence of themed acts — craft, industrialisation, image-making, intelligent technology — streamed live around the world.
The evening's most anticipated moment is a grand ballet sequence featuring Roberto Bolle, étoile of Teatro alla Scala. A reminder that Italian fashion, before being an industry, is a gesture: the hand that works the fabric, the body that carries it on stage.
A whole collection built around the skirt
For spring/summer 2027, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons choose to tell the season through a single garment: the skirt. They call it "one of the most primitive, instrumental pieces of clothing, for men and women" — and send it down the runway in dozens of variations, from technical nylon to psychedelic-tinged prints.
Velcro closures, studded with crystals, replace zips; in place of classic tailoring come bandeau tops, cotton shirts and plain sweaters. A collection built by subtraction, not accumulation.
A designer relaunches, slower
The same day, in an apartment near Castello Sforzesco — not on a runway — designer Vivetta Ponti presents Venerdì Pomeriggio, her new project after leaving the label that carried her own name. The proposal is explicit: six capsules a year, small production runs, lower prices.
Garments and home objects, designed without distinction of gender or age. A choice that runs against the rhythm of the bigger maisons: slowing down, instead of chasing the calendar.
Dalí and fashion meet at Palazzo Reale
From September 24th, 2026 to January 31st, 2027, Palazzo Reale hosts "Dalí e la Moda", the first international exhibition dedicated to the relationship between Salvador Dalí and the world of fashion — and to how much fashion, in turn, fed his imagination. Over 200 works, from paintings to garments, photographs, jewellery and documents, produced with the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí and under the patronage of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana.
The exhibition opens right in the middle of fashion week: a reminder that Milan's week isn't only about runways, but also about the places where art and fashion measure themselves against each other.
In brief
Vogue World turns the Galleria into a stage, with Roberto Bolle's ballet closing the opening night. A maison tells the whole season through a single garment, the skirt. A designer relaunches by choosing a slower pace and smaller production. At Palazzo Reale, Dalí and fashion meet until January. Four different ways of saying the same thing: the fashion that matters most right now is the fashion that slows down to look at itself more closely.