Giorgio Armani's final collection, marking the 50th anniversary of his signature line, was shown Sunday night in a solemn runway show in the courtyard of a museum showing his retrospective exhibition.

Francesca Liberatore wanted to address global turmoil during her Milan Fashion Week runway show but not through the collection.

Max Mara takes a sexy power turn for next summer, showing lots of skin with a touch of fetishism in its latest collection for next spring and summer.

Simone Bellotti has unveiled his first collection as Jil Sander's creative director during Milan Fashion Week.

The last day of Milan Fashion Week dawned Sunday with fanciful and joyous confections shown beneath an arch of iridescent flowers by emerging designer Susan Fang, whose latest collection was supported by Dolce & Gabbana.

At age 90, Giorgio Armani has more than a few cards still up his sleeve.

The latest Jil Sander collection with shimmering surfaces cut dramatically against the darkened runway on the second day of Milan Fashion Week runway previews for next fall and winter.

Giorgio Armani’s collection for the next cold weather season previewed on the last day of Milan Fashion Week on Sunday embraces the designer's love of nature and admiration of Asian cultures expressed in his trademark flowing and flattering tailoring.

Designers have been making an impression at their new brands during Milan Fashion Week.

Giorgio Armani has closed Milan Fashion Week with good vibes and a front row that included frequent guests such as Cate Blanchette and Juliette Binoche.

Thousands came out in a rain to watch an open-air Diesel show during Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday, making the denim-centric brand the hottest ticket in town.

With temperatures rising, Milan designers focused on fluidity in dressing, allowing the body to move without constrictions.

It was nipples out on the Milan Fashion Week runway this week during a week of previews of mostly womenswear collections for next fall and winter.

Designers with diverse backgrounds figured prominently in shows on the fourth day of Milan Fashion Week during a season when diversity in Italian fashion has become an every more pressing topic.

Milan designers took a more modest turn on the second day of Milan Fashion Week of mostly womenswear looks for next fall and winter.

Sexiness is in the air at Milan Fashion Week, where brands are encouraging people to show some skin next fall and winter.

Milan Fashion Week has closed on a note of tranquility after four days of mostly menswear previews for next fall and winter.

After several seasons affected by coronavirus restrictions, Milan Fashion Week is back to its pre-pandemic splendor.

The Milan Fashion Week opening Wednesday celebrates perhaps its most diverse season ever.

By the fourth and final day of Milan Fashion Week menswear previews for next spring and summer, designers seem to have understood the assignment.

The Italian fashion world has opened a Milan Fashion Week that brought the return of Russian buyers after two years and the easing of pandemic travel restrictions.

Milan fashion houses were charting a path out of the pandemic that included a menswear calendar packed with 22 live runway shows and another 18 physical presentations this month.

Designer Giorgio Armani is cancelling his men’s fashion shows in Milan this month and his Prive haute couture show in Paris because of soaring coronavirus cases in Europe.

Milan menswear previews for fall/winter 2021-22 are returning to a mostly in-person format in January, with Zegna, Giorgio Armani, Fendi and Prada among the 22 brands staging live runway shows.

Donatella Versace pumped energy into Milan Fashion week with a star-filled runway and front row, and collection strong on the fashion house’s codes: bright colors, safety pins and especially silky foulards.

Giorgio Armani has celebrated 40 years of his Emporio Armani line with a retrospective show at his Silos museum and a collection for youthful dressers that brimmed with colorful optimism.

Italy’s fashion capital is again alive with the sound of shoppers swarming boutiques and editors filling socially distanced fashion week venues, a sign of a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel.

Nigeria-born designer Joy Meribe opened Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday with her debut runway collection, a concrete success for a movement to promote diversity in Italian fashion just a year after launching.

Fashion designer Fabiola Manirakiza, center, poses with models at the end of the Black Lives Matter Fall/Winter 2021/22 collective fashion show, presented in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. “When I told friends in Cameroon that I wanted to travel to Italy to become a fashion designer, they said, ‘Why are you going to study fashion. What Italian fashion house is going to hire you? No and no and no!”AdThe designers, dubbed “the Fab Five,” are the first crop of creators nurtured through a collaboration between the National Chamber of Italian Fashion and the Black Lives Matter in Italian Fashion movement. Italian-Haitian designer Stella Jean, Milan-based African American designer Edward Buchanan and Afro Fashion Week Milano founder Michelle Ngonmo launched the movement last summer..

A digital runway show by five Italian fashion designers of African origin opens Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2020, one tangible result of a campaign launched last summer by the only Black Italian designer belonging to the Italian fashion chamber. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)MILAN – A digital runway show by five Italian fashion designers of African origin opens Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday, one tangible result of a campaign launched last summer by the only Black Italian designer belonging to the Milan fashion chamber. “When you want to do something, you can do them immediately,’’ said Jean, one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter in Italian Fashion campaign. The collaboration with the Italian fashion council will continue in September, when five new designers from Italy’s minority communities will be featured during fashion week. AdSteele said Black designers are also under-represented in the United States, despite the role that Black culture has had on inspiring fashion there.

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018 file photo, Carlo Capasa, head of the National Chamber of Italian Fashion, attends the Fendi women's 2019 Spring-Summer fashion show, during the Fashion Week in Milan, Italy. Italys fashion chamber opens the first Milan Fashion Week on Friday with no VIPS populating runway front rows, as the reality of the persistent virus resurgence in Italy has forced an all-digital, no physical week of menswear previews. The National Fashion Chamber maintained a live element during the July and September fashion weeks in Milan. The organizers of Paris Fashion Week plan to hold audience-free men’s and haute couture shows later this month. The Italian fashion chamber found that 45 million people streamed Milan Fashion Week shows in September, a number that Capasa said was beyond his wildest dreams a year ago.

MILAN – It’s been a season of disruption at Milan Fashion Week. Here are highlights from Sunday, the last day of Milan Fashion Week of mostly womenswear previews for Spring-Summer 2021:VALENTINO’S PICCOLI MAKES MILAN FASHION PREMIEREThe silver lining of the virus-induced travel difficulties that kept many people from traveling to Milan Fashion Week from abroad: They also kept Rome-based Valentino from making the trans-alpine trip to the fashion house’s usual show venue in Paris. For his first-ever Milan show, creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli chose a disused foundry as the backdrop for the lush, romantic collection in the fashion language of lattice and lace; floral detailing and bold prints; ruffles and fringe. All of the key elements, florals, lace, lattice, also were reinterpreted also for men: a floral hoodie, a lace short and top set, a ruffle-front shirt over shorts. In Milan, “the signs and codes of Valentino today are being re-signified,” the house said in press notes.

Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Prada and Versace are all returning to the runway in September, according to the Milan Fashion Week calendar published on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. After the coronavirus pushed many fashion houses to make on-line only presentations during the last fashion week in July, more than half of participating Milan fashion houses will hold physical shows to present previews for Spring-Summer 2021 in September. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)MILAN Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Prada and Versace are all returning to the runway in September, according to the Milan Fashion Week calendar published Wednesday. After the coronavirus pushed many fashion houses to make online-only presentations in July, more than half of participating Milan fashion houses are making plans to present in-person previews for Spring-Summer 2021. In all, 28 fashion houses plan to stage live shows and another 24 will participate in the Sept. 23-28 Milan Fashion Week through digital shows.