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Milan's Wacky, Wonderful Fashion Week Closes on Quiet Note

MILAN (AP) After Gucci's heads and Dolce & Gabbana's drones, Milan Fashion Week wrapped up Monday on a tranquil note with shows by Japanese designers.

The six days of previews for next fall and winter is likely to be the most talked-about in a long time. Gucci's Alessandro Michele's message reverberated well beyond fashion world's epicenter when on Day 1, he sent out two models carrying replicas of their own heads through a pristine operating room backdrop. And the fashion crowd was awestruck on the penultimate day when Dolce & Gabbana unveiled their latest handbag, flown down the runway by a bunch of drones.

These houses are providing master classes in how to grab the attention of the new consumers. The trick remains to stay true to the brand's traditions and DNA something being undertaken by new and new-ish designers at Ferragamo, Roberto Cavalli, Marni and Jil Sander.

Highlights from Monday's shows:

Mitsuru Nishizaki's latest Ujoh collection combines British-inspired check, plaid and stripe fabrics with his own trademark asymmetrical and layered silhouette. It was the Tokyo-based designer's third year showing in Milan.

Trousers got an update with mix-matched tapered legs, one in black, one in a red burgundy, with an asymmetrical button closure. The look is layered with a tunic-style sweater.

The attention to detail and workmanship come through in an off-the-shoulder black dress with a ruffled hem decorated with a field of blue embroidered flowers that continue into lacy 3-D adornments.

Nishizaki has tapped the Milan trend of wrapping, with knitwear that bunches and hugs the frame, and large oversized wraps that fasten over the shoulder with a leather strap. One in British plaid is covered with lurex intarsia.

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SoftWear Automation Has A Cure For What Ails Fashion Retail

Fast-fashion business models, vertical integration, robust inventory management systems and other supply-chain strategies are offered as a solution to what ails the fashion retail industry today. The industry’s challenges are summarized by Alper Sen in International Journal of Production Economics, “The fashion industry has short product life cycles, tremendous product variety, volatile and unpredictable demand, and long and inflexible supply processes.”

Current efforts focused on fixing fashion’s current supply chain, like inventory management and demand forecasting, are only a band aid, providing temporary relief but no lasting cure for an industry ecosystem ill suited to meeting consumers’ demand for unique looks that few others are wearing that are delivered faster and faster. Li & Fung executive director Rick Darling said as much at the Mazars 2017 Consumer Products Forum in NYC in November, “Amazon quantities, Kohl’s quantities, Macy’s quantities, are all coming down per style and their SKU counts are all broadening, some more extreme than others. And that’s not being driven by their choice to control inventory, it’s being driven by consumers’ demand to get things faster, quicker and more unique than they ever had in the past.”

While these solutions are much needed, they still fall short of getting the right clothes, in the right styles, with the right fit to the right customer where and when he or she wants it. Even reducing cycle times to 4-to-6 weeks from design concept to instore availability, as reportedly Zara, ASOS and BooBoo have done, isn’t fast enough when customers have moved on.

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Kylie Jenner’s baby daughter already has a better wardrobe than you

Kylie Jenner has welcomed her first child with boyfriend Travis Scott and we first learnt the news this morning, by way of a heartfelt message posted to Jenner’s Instagram account. This was followed up with an a 11 minute video detailing Jenner’s journey from the moment she found out she was pregnant to the moment she gave birth.

In the video, we were offered a quick glimpse at the nursery and in particular, the wardrobe, which Jenner has obviously been quite busy preparing in secret, awaiting the birth of her daughter. Yes, Kylie Jenner's baby daughter has an enviable wardrobe already and she's just five days old.

In a video that seems to be from Christmas Day, Jenner and her boyfriend Scott are seen opening a gift from Jenner’s best friend Jordyn Woods, and inside is a tiny pair of Nike sneakers. The video then cuts to a clip of Jenner putting them away in her daughter’s wardrobe, where we can see shelf upon shelf dedicated to the (at the time, unborn) baby's shoe collection alone. From what we can see there are seven shelves in total and with at least four pairs of shoes on each shelf, you do the math.

We also see a small collection of pink dresses, complete with bows and tulle, and even an area of the wardrobe reserved for tiny jumpers, in pinks, creams and lavenders, as well as a collection of printed tops and dresses.

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Girls Who Code at Fashion Week

“There is more and more fashion coming out of Asia,” Ms. Lin said. “It’s going from ‘Made in Asia’ to ‘Designed by Asians.’ We’re just part of this movement.”At the PH5 presentation, Reshma Saujani, the founder and chief executive of the Girls Who Code program, was there to support its alumnae. “One of the things we tell our girls is we have to change the image of what a coder looks like and the industries where coders are most prominent,” Ms. Saujani said. “When you think of coding, you don’t necessarily think of knitwear.”As a society, Ms. Saujani said, “we’ve told our girls that they’re not multidimensional. They’re either nerds or not nerds. We’ve taught our girls to hate math and science even if they love it.” She listed examples, like a girls’ T-shirt produced by Forever 21 with “Allergic to Algebra” printed on it and an “I’m Too Pretty to Do Homework” tee that J.C. Penney targeted at girls.“You can be supersmart and have your hair done to the nines,” Ms. Saujani said. “We have to stop putting girls into boxes and see them for who they are.”

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Yolanda Hadid on the difference between a mum and a momager

Yolanda Hadid wants the world to know she's no momager.

“The most important relationships are at home,” Yolanda Hadid mother of the world’s most famous sister act and Vogue UK’s dual March cover girls Bella and Gigi Hadid explains. “Your mum will always be your number one fan and someone that loves you unconditionally, so whoever you are, use that relationship!”

Hadid, who found fame in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, is back on screens as the host of Making a Model, an eight-episode TV series that sees her teach six pairs of aspiring teen models and their mothers the secrets of working together to create a successful brand.

Having forged the careers of Gigi, Bella and her youngest son Anwar, she is well-equipped for the job, but, she tells Vogue, “I don’t understand the word ‘momager’.”

“The jobs of a mom and manager are very different,” she clarifies. “My girls have a manager [Luiz Mattos at IMG], and I work very closely with him, but my place as a mum is in the shadow. I put Gigi and Bella in the light rather than controlling every step they make. The journey is about them, not me.”

The Dutch-American former model wouldn’t let her daughters embark on the “journey” until they each turned 18. “I wanted them to have the time to develop as young women, to read, to play sport, to wear no make-up, and just enjoy themselves,” she explains. “When Gigi was 16 she couldn’t wait to work because other girls were getting jobs. I told her to trust me and wait, and four years later, she thanked me for giving her those two extra years of childhood.”

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