Milan's fashion week has been delivering the goods, and the spring/summer 2027 shows gave travellers yet another reason to time a city break around Italy's style capital.
The headline act was Louise Trotter's second show at Bottega Veneta, roughly a year after a debut that won wide praise. The British designer went bigger this time — literally. Leather and raffia totes have doubled in size, and her structured-but-light suits and dresses arrived in punchy yellow, red and purple, plus floral prints. She also kept exploring woven leather, the Italian house's signature craft, applying it to a men's trench coat and tall women's boots. The front row read like an awards ceremony: Solange, Tyler The Creator, Julianne Moore and Jacob Elordi, with Kylie Jenner closing the show in a voluminous black dress.
Dolce & Gabbana took a more nostalgic route. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana say they raided the wardrobes of prominent Sicilian families and updated what they found — lace and faux leopard fur worn with jeans, little tailored jackets loaded with dozens of necklaces. Presented at their Milan headquarters before a crowd that included Jennifer Lopez, the collection stays firmly in their usual territory: sensual, occasionally flashy, but rooted in Italian craftsmanship.
Elsewhere on the schedule, Ermanno Scervino unveiled a 'corsair' woman — think a wide red and beige jacket with gold buttons over a mini-short — with a rock-edged, summer-friendly wardrobe shown as actress Rosario Dawson looked on. And MSGM's Massimo Giorgetti borrowed from artist Mario Schifano, scattering palm trees and stars across fluorescent, pop-inflected pieces for men and women, all built on comfortable classic cuts.
For visitors, Milan during fashion week (late February and late September) is a different city from the off-season version. The streets around the show venues — the Bottega show drew a celebrity crowd, and the Dolce & Gabbana headquarters always does — fill with stylish crowds, hotels fill up fast, and the quadrilatero della moda becomes open-air people-watching at its finest. Even without a show invite, the energy spills into cafés, shops and aperitivo spots across the centre. If you can't make the fashion weeks, the city's permanent draws remain: the Duomo rooftop, Leonardo's Last Supper (book well ahead), and day trips to Lake Como under an hour away.
