The Rome-based fashion brand brought Milan Fashion Week to a close with a beautiful runway showcasing a simultaneously laid-back and understated attitude condensed into an affirmative collection. 

Paris Fashion Week opened with an entirely digital Monday, as a half-dozen designers, many of them making their French debuts, kicked off the runway season here in the capital.

Black designers presented collections at Milan's fashion week in a show aimed at raising awareness of the lack of diversity in the industry.

One cannot fault Dunhill’s designer Mark Weston for lack of ambition. He paired very disparate cultures and concepts in his latest show – from Japanese 90s design to British tailoring to inside out fabrication.

The winner will be awarded with a $20,000 scholarship, as well as mentorship, and will be judged based on talent, financial need and professional potential.

All about cultural and conceptual diversity in Milan on its final Sunday afternoon, at three very contrasting shows, albeit by two brands with similar names – MSGM and MM6 – and a third with uber wide-ranging origins.

Few designers have had as remarkable a career as Giorgio Armani. His unique fashion history was the subject of a hagiographic video that preceded the presentation of the latest collection by Italy's most famous designer.

A key player in French fashion who will be showing his newest collection for Ami during Paris Fashion Week on 3 October, Alexandre Mattiussi is the latest guest on the LuxurynsightXFashionNetwork podcast. 

Marni went on fashion’s biggest long-distance video adventure this season, with a live online show on Friday afternoon that rambled around eight cities and four continents.

Finally, after many a season, the Tod’s gal that looks, well, pretty cool, with designer Walter Chiapponi's new primordial-yet-posh approach.

At Milan Fashion Week, Simona Marziali, Calcaterra, Fendi and N°21 have honoured Italian design excellence with sophisticated, high-quality collections embodying a simple, almost minimalist beauty, and a summery mood.

​Tomorrow Ltd, the London-based brand consultancy, has announced a major new link-up with Colville, the brand founded by former Marni design director Molly Molloy and ex-British Vogue fashion director Lucinda Chambers.

Designed to provide more equal access at some of the world’s top creative institutions, the project involves partnerships with Central Saint Martins, the Parsons School of Design and Institut Français de la Mode. 

Raf Simons made his collaborative debut with Miuccia Prada on Thursday afternoon, in the most keenly anticipated runway show in the world this year. And the result was a powerful collection, a newer New Look.

A new exhibition in Paris sets out to uncover the fashion world roots of American surrealist Man Ray, who first made his name taking flattering portraits of the rich and famous.