Designers showcase new energy as patterns flow
Ralph Lauren, Emporio Armani and Versace display their best at high-profile shows
Milan
OFTEN as fascinating as what designers show on the runways here is doping out the business plays behind the fashion. Take the case of Versace.
In a backstage interview before presenting her lively and assured menswear collection for spring 2018, Donatella Versace noted that she had chosen to stage the show not in one of the theatres she has used in recent years, but rather in the family's 18th-century palazzo in central Milan. It was a homecoming as pragmatic as it was symbolic.
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