Made in Italy: Discover The Next Generation Of Talent At Milan Fashion Week

28 Sept

During Milan Fashion Week, we attended showcases including: The IED Graduate Show, Viktor & Rolf Spectrum Exhibition at Corso Como, The Moda Milan Graduate Show, and more…

Viktor & Rolf exhibition at Corso Como

Viktor & Rolf: Spectrum is the first solo exhibition in Italy dedicated to the celebrated Dutch duo.

A selection of their most iconic haute couture collections reveals the continuities, returns and transformations of their creative research through a spectrum of light. Presented at 10 Corso Como Gallery during Milan Fashion Week, Viktor & Rolf: Spectrum brought together more than 20 haute couture looks.

The exhibition explores the designers’ practice through recurring themes of transformation and experimentation within fashion as both an artistic and cultural practice. Looks from collections including: NO, Fashion Statements, Wearable Art and Performance of Sculptures demonstrate Viktor & Rolf’s approach to couture as a space for challenging conventions. Their collections often use fashion as a vehicle for ideas, by transforming slogans, political statements, and cultural references into wearable art.

Fashion Hub

Curated by Sara Sozzani Maino, Future Threads: Italy’s New Wave explores the trailblazing creatives redefining the essence of "Made in Italy." Featuring Act N°1, Florania, Marcello Pipitone, Materia, Pecoranera, and Simon Cracker, the exhibition combines Italian artisanal heritage with material innovation, circular responsibility, and bold experimentation. Together, the showcase displays the growing intersection between fashion and contemporary art.

IED Graduate Show

For IED Milano, the show positioned the process itself as the outcome, highlighting collective work rather than a sum of separate projects.

Presented during Milan Fashion Week, IED Milano’s ‘The Process’ brought together the work of 14 graduating designers from the Fashion School in a collective runway exploring fashion as more than a finished product.

Featuring 60 looks across 13 collections, the show considered the ideas, research, craftsmanship, and collaboration that happen before a garment reaches the runway. Rather than presenting each collection as an isolated body of work, the designers created junction looks, these connected different creative approaches and reimagined the traditional designer-by-designer sequence.

With digital technologies and AI increasingly shaping how fashion is imagined and produced, The Process placed emphasis on the value of human creativity, material exploration, research and time spent. The result was a runway that functioned not only as a presentation of garments, but as a space for different creative perspectives and practices to intersect.