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Fake Versace Watch

As the saying goes, time is of the essence. And, in this day and age, we all know how true that statement stands. In a world where every second counts, it’s important that you keep track of the time. And what better way to do so than with a fashionable watch on your wrist?
Who needs a wrist full of bracelets when you can amp up your arm candy with a Fake Versace Watch? These timepieces will make time stand still as people stop to admire them. Don’t spend your day rummaging through your handbag to find your phone just so you can check the time. With a Versace stainless steel watch on your hand, your life just got a little easier. Try a rose gold watch with a Greek key face and chain link strap. Show everyone the girl-boss that you are in a chiffon blouse tucked into a sleek, pencil-skirt and kitten heels.
When you go to a meeting to land a potential client, dressing the part of success is key. You’ve already spent hours learning about your client and drawing up new proposals for them. Walk in confidently with a navy slim-suit and patent-leather wingtips. Keep track of the presentation time in style with a stainless steel Versace watch with a navy crocodile embossed leather strap.
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With battery-powered Versace watches, you can expect an accuracy of +/- 15 seconds/month. Only a few years ago, quartz movements were the only type seen in Versace timepieces. Luckily, the brand realized a customer willing to shell out +$500 on a designer’s watch deserves a bit more than a standard quartz caliber.
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Versace Hellenyium Watch

Even if you’re not a fashion connoisseur, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Versace. Particularly as it’s among the most well-known fashion houses in the world.

The Italian company has been a go-to place for luxury clothes and jewelry since its inception in 1978.

There isn’t a big fashion show that doesn’t include the latest Versace designs. It is also one of the most famous brands with celebrities and athletes.

Because Versace replica watch is best known for high-end clothing, few know the company also offers a range of timepieces. In this Versace watches review, we’ll take a look at what contributes to the collection’s overall quality. Plus, we’ll and determine if Versace timepieces are worth the hefty price tag. BTW, you can view and shop the Versace watch collection on their website.

We begin with the brand’s history. Gianni was a well-known and respected designer who had just shown his debut collection for Callaghan, Genny, and Complice, all of which were based in Milan. He chose to establish his first shop in Milan’s Via Della Spiga after his collections made a big splash.

Gianni Versace was among a few independent designers who had complete control over their company, from design to selling, at the time.

After dominating the fashion business, the brand moved into jewelry, accessories, and home furnishings in 1982. Versace timepieces were impossible to find.

Donatella, Gianni’s younger sister, joined the business in 1993 and released two new lines. The songs “Young Versace replica watch” and “Versus” were instant hits, and the brand received worldwide attention a year later thanks to Elizabeth Hurley’s black Versace gown.

Versace was known as the “Rock n’ Roll designer” because of his daring designs and connections with superstars, including Michael Jackson and Elton John.
Donatella Versace not only decided to maintain the brand, but she also elevated it to new heights. She began clothing celebrities as a result of her well-known friendships with superstars like Madonna and Jennifer Lopez. As a consequence of this action, the brand’s already stellar reputation skyrocketed.

Her keen business sense convinced her of the need for diversification. One of her first actions after assuming the role of Creative Director was to create a Versace watch line.

Donatella recognized that a Versace replica watch is much more than just a timepiece. It was, in her view, an excellent method of assisting others in expressing themselves. She was absolutely correct.

The Versace watch line became a huge hit in no time, particularly among people who already wore Versace clothing. Many people regarded the timekeepers as an essential element of the ensemble and a must-have item that completed the brand’s bold appearance.

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Versace Medusa Secret Watch

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Versace has recently launched its Medusa Icon Watch in pastel pink.

The Swiss-made timepiece arrives as part of the fashion house’s Fall 2021 “Medusa Icon” collection. A symbol of beauty and strength, Medusa is placed at the center in the form of a three-dimensional figure and is surrounded by the signature Greca pattern in gold. Elsewhere, the textured champagne dial is wrapped in a matching top ring, while a black cabochon adorns the crown. The design is finished with a pink leather strap with a metal loop. Gianni Versace Medusa Secret Watch was a fashion rock star. The degree to which fashion and pop culture have become synonymous is due in great part to his work: he was a true innovator who masterfully spun fashion into a form of artistic performance, glamorous and theatrical, sexy and celebrity driven.

Versace’s superstar image, however, wasn’t guided solely by a taste for unconventionality. He was indeed a master designer, fueled by fearless passion for his craft and an appreciation of classical art and architecture, which he used to redefine the fashion world. Hellenic heritage and mythology were among Gianni Versace’s muses. He was born, after all, in Reggio di Calabria in Southern Italy, part of the region once known as Magna Graeca or Great Greece. The Greeks colonized Magna Graeca many centuries ago, and in doing so left an indelible imprint of Greek culture and tradition, much of which endures to this day.

Those early years in Reggio di Calabria may be where Versace first became aware of the Medusa head: it is featured on the flag of neighboring Sicily in a silhouette that bears semblance to Versace’s own portrayal of the mythical character. But it was the deeper symbolism of Medusa that compelled Versace to adopt the figure as the central image of the Versace logo. Gianni Versace’s incarnation of Medusa is based on a more alluring representation of the legendary mortal, where Medusa is suggestive of power, strength and beauty that constitutes a propitious sense of the mythology. The Versace Medusa Secret Watch head, as it appears in the brand’s logo, is an expression of Versace’s vision: she encompasses Versace’s taste for tradition and classical nuance along with his desire to astonish audiences with designs that are striking in their brilliance, originality and style. The Versace Medusa head logo features the head of Medusa at its center portrayed as a beautiful woman with a supernatural aura. Rather than snakes for hair, the Versace logo depicts Medusa at a time when her golden hair overflowed. Her beauty is apparent in her proportional features and fulsome lips, but her eyes remain hollow, her intentions ambiguous.

Medusa’s head is encircled by a ring of Greek keys –- decorative patterns based on single lines that twist like a maze – another quintessential Versace design motif. The name “Versace” is usually printed below the image, although the logo is among the most recognizable in the world, with or without the name. The Medusa head logo appears on all sorts of Versace Medusa Secret Watch items including Versace sunglasses, Versace pendants, Versace writing instruments and Versace timepieces.

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Versace Greca Glam Watch

When it comes to name recognition, few brands evoke a sense of luxury quite like Versace. Its bold and confident design aesthetic and uncompromising approach to material and craft means that watches are a natural fit for the brand — and the Versace name has become as synonymous with timepieces as it is with other luxury goods. Its newest release, the Versace Greca Logo Chrono, is a bold new take on the chronograph, with a typically opulent aesthetic.
In the Versace Greca Logo Chrono, a repeating geometric tile pattern rings the bezel, interrupted only by six hex screws that add visual interest and a strong design element. At 43mm and with a broad bezel, the Versace Greca Logo Chrono is certainly not lacking in wrist presence. Each colorway was chosen to be visually striking — whether you choose the gold-tone IP-coated “champagne” case and bracelet model, the natural stainless-steel with green dial model, or any of the other variations, each is made in Versace’s evocative style.
The Versace Greca Logo Chrono is powered by a RONDA S60 Swiss-made quartz movement, and the dial is based on a classic three-register design, with wide surrounds on each register that mirror the applied indices. Along with a date window at 4 o’clock, the 9 o’clock register displays the day of the week while the other two registers act as seconds and minute counters. Sitting at 12 o’clock is the Versace Medusa. The Medusa motif was chosen because those who looked at her instantly fell in love — exactly the feeling Versace hoped to evoke in those who looked at his creations. Versace certainly doesn’t stop at the case and dial when creating a striking design — both the bracelet and strap options are also standouts. The integrated bracelet utilizes a mix of brushed and polished elements in the links, but the eye is immediately drawn to the Versace name proudly emblazoned on alternating links. The bracelet secures to the wrist by way of a comfortable butterfly clasp. Versace also offers the option of an integrated strap with broad geometric elements in colors that complement the tones of the dial and case.

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Versace La Medusa Watch

Versace, through long-standing design and manufacturing partner Timex Group, has been producing wristwatches for some time. In the pantheon of “fashion watches,” where does Versace exist in comparison to its many fashion house competitors who also have their own watches? The famed Italian fashion maker run by the sister (Donatella) of the founder who was murdered years back in Miami, Florida has been humming along with its distinctive aesthetic, which often revolves around the motif of the Medusa from ancient mythology. Today, I look at a women’s Versace La Medusa Watch wristwatch, the reference VERF000818 Versace Medusa Stud Icon.

What I think a lot of people don’t quite understand about a lot of fashion watches is exactly who designs them. There might be this perception that the fashion house itself designs and produces the watches, or that they design and then have an external supplier produce the watches. Neither of that is true in this instance. What groups such as Timex and Fossil (as well as Movado) have historically done, to great success, is contract with fashion brands to handle the entirety of wristwatch design and production. All fashion houses need to do, in most instances, is receive, market, and sell the products. This particular model worked extremely well for Timex Group competitor Fossil Group, in the example of Michael Kors watches.
My belief, however, is that Timex has been designing and producing Versace watches for Versace for years longer than Fossil’s relationship with Michael Kors. Versace La Medusa Watch and Salvatore Ferragamo probably represent the current highest-end names that Timex produces fashion-focused products for, but their relationship with fashion labels across the globe goes deep. But also local. I think, perhaps, the most telling part of the Versace watches story is that Timex’s design headquarters isn’t located in Connecticut, the United States where the Timex main headquarters is, but rather across the pond in Milan, Italy.

Being in Milan offers Timex a few benefits when it comes to relationships with the fashion labels it does business with. First, it is able to work very closely with their teams when it comes to product design and concepts, and second, it allows Timex to benefit from the design and marketing talent that exists in the city. If Timex, or any other group for that matter, wants to design marketable fashion watches, does it not need to at least make sure the products it makes fits logically within the brand whose stories and websites will carry it? That challenge — and to come in at desired price points — is incredibly difficult to succeed at. This is because clients look at a product like this Versace Medusa Stud Icon women’s watch and must feel that it is both a good watch and a logically compelling Versace product. The important takeaway message here is that Versace watches are designed to, first and foremost, be timepieces, which is why a third-party partner makes the most sense to help the fashion label get the best product possible.
The name of this Versace La Medusa Watch is a bit amusing to me because of how literal it is. Taken any other way, the “Stud Icon” watch sounds like something a man, not a woman, might wear. The term is really a comment on how the watch prominently features Versace’s Medusa iconic Medusa motif, in the form of the image on studs that are used across the fashion label. You’ really need to know that, and you’d also need to know that lots of other Versace watches that also prominently feature the Medusa stud icon don’t actually have any of those terms in the name. If it were up to me, I would have focus group-tested these names a bit more. At least when it comes to matching the design of the watches with the fashion brand, all the hard work was done correctly. Visually, the concept works in this timepiece, and I like this women’s watch because it is just as much decorative bracelet as it is wristwatch. The round dial, along with the round “stud” links, makes up the majority of the composition, with a more traditional watch bracelet underneath and mostly there for both wearing comfort and to make sure the bracelet can be sized to someone’s wrist. What I like about the design overall is that by using relatively few shapes and themes, the repetition of those shapes makes for an interesting wearable that is both utilitarian and fashionable. Versace currently produces (through the Timex Group) four versions of the Medusa Stud Icon. This reference VERF00818 is two-toned with polished steel and steel IP-coated with yellow gold tone (actually, Versace refers to the color as “champagne”). This is the only two-toned version of the watch, as the others are either all yellow gold tones with a matching yellow gold tone or black dial, and an all rose gold toned model. The case is 28mm-wide (water resistant to 50 meters) with an attractive but simple dial powered by a Swiss-made quartz movement (a Ronda caliber 751). Over the dial is a sapphire crystal.

The hands and four hour markers have a neat texture (small repeating letter Vs) to them, which actually adds to the contrast value, making them more legible. I would actually like to see more men’s watches use techniques like this to enhance the visual effect, as well as the legibility of timepiece. The female wearer modeling the watch really liked the overall comfort and style of the watch. The personality and its visual distinctiveness (along with comfort) were all plus factors. The only downside for her was the lack of additional hour markers that would make reading the time a bit more straight forward. I don’t disagree, and these are some of those “style over substance” considerations that happen all the time is wristwatch design.
One of the interesting things about what happens to these fashion house watches when they come to market, is that no matter how much time or detail is put into them, there is virtually storytelling by the brand itself when it comes to discussing the merits of these products. There are probably fewer than 100 total words on the Versace La Medusa Watch website that attempt to explain this watch, why Versace even has watches or any substance whatsoever to help convince customers. Granted, Versace and most Italian fashion labels dedicate equally little effort to explaining their other products. That said, time and time again in today’s world, we find that stories and substance sell watches, not mere looks or brand associations.

I like writing about women’s watches that I personally like to see on women. I don’t really care what brand they come from or the price point — though more accessible price points are more interesting to me because I like the idea that a lot of people can wear or enjoy the product. Women rarely purchase timepieces for similar reasons as men, so the storytelling and concepts around them need to be different. Unlike men, women tend to immediately respond well to watches that are as much jewelry as they are timepieces. In this case, you have a blend of three things. First is the fact that the Medusa Stud Icon is a reliable timepiece. Second is that it is designed to be an attractive jewelry-style bracelet.

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Versace watches: what’s the difference?

The brandname Versace watch is widely known and even if you have nothing to do with this brand, you must have been under a stone when not have heard of this Italian fashion brand. But what about Versus? In this blog we will look at the differences between the watches of both brands. A kind of Versus vs Versace!
Whether it concerns watches, clothing or other items: Versace watch is popular worldwide. That is a bit different with Versus. The brand lives in the shadow of the big brother and it is a lot less known but also a fashion brand. It is even a subsidiary of Versace. It will not surprise you that the range also includes clothing, bags and watches.
It was Versace owner Gianni Versace himself who launched Versus, a new Italian fashion brand, in 1989. The aim was to produce creative and innovative products with this label. Items containing more flair and created with a focus on new trends, even more innovative than Versace products themselves. You can see Versus as the somewhat more modern, stylish, sibling. The fashion brand was taken over by Donatella Versace watch, sister of Gianni.

Versus was shut down in 2005 but was relaunched in 2009 in collaboration with British designer Christopher Kane. Watches are also still part of the range.
When compared, you will find some clear differences, but certainly also similarities. The biggest difference is mainly the price: Versus watches are a lot cheaper to purchase compared to the Versace timepieces. a Versus watch can be priced somewhere in between € 99 till € 250.

You can find a Versace watch roughly somewhere in the price range of € 299 to around 2k. Where the most expensive Versus ends, the price of an entry-level Versace watch starts.
The watches of both Italian brands show similarities in, for example, the shape and design of the watch case, strap and also the use of the logo. The large medusa head, which is pontifically placed on the dial of many Versace models, can also be seen in the shape of a lion’s head at the daughter brand.
Who is actualy buying a Versus timepiece? What about their age? Well, quite a young and hip audience does that. We can understand they do: Versus men’s and women’s watches are hip and strikingly colored. These colors and the modern designs make the brand quite popular. The younger age of the enthusiasts is also due to the lower recommended prices. They are a lot cheaper compared to the watches of mother brand Versace itself. The lower price is fits better for this target group.
Both brands are of excellent quality. The biggest differences can be found in the specifications. For a Versace you have to pay more, but you will also get more worth the money. Better (Swiss) timepieces and sapphire glass are included. An advantage compared to the Versus (less) scratch-resistant mineral glass.

It is all in the details, the finish and the quality of the materials used that make the difference between the two brands.

But is a Versus watch a bad buy? No definitely not. They are very beautiful watches of good quality and with a lower price tag.

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Versace Logo Halo Watch

I had first fallen in love with this perfume when my dear friend from Dubai had come down to Mumbai.  While I was waiting for her to get ready so that we can go out, she sprayed this perfume.  I immediately fell in love with its intoxicating fragrance. This Versace Logo Halo was my first feminine-smelling perfume that I fell in love with. Previously, I used to mostly use men’s perfumes and Axe deos (barring musk ones, I hate musk) 

 Out of the few feminine ones that I used, I liked them, but did not really love them. This was a fragrance I was completely bowled over, but when I saw its beautiful bottle and price of the fragrance, I nearly died.
After which my friend told me she can get it for a much much cheaper price from Dubai and I wasted no time in telling her to send it for me and I really did bag it at half the price :happydance: An enthralling and voluptuous fragrance, for the Versace Logo Halo Woman who is strong and confident yet feminine, sensual and always glamorous, who loves to be enveloped in a fragrance that delicately tastes of colourful and juicy pomegranate grains, iced freshness and shining yuzu. A scent that then flows into the beauty of magnolia, peony and lotus flowers in a mixture of voluptuousness and transparency, and delights you with its subtle sensuality and the enticing
presence of plant amber, acajou and musk.
I just love it because its one of the best-looking perfumes bottles out there. The bottle itself is shaped like a crystal/diamond with soft, pink-coloured perfume which looks extremely pleasant  and even the stopper itself looks like a huge piece of crystal with so many well-placed cuts that it looks luminescent! Right in the centre is placed a Versace Logo Halo engraved coin.  Overall, this perfume looks like a precious jewel with ethereal looks right out of those fantasy books I read and movies I see 

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Versace Icon Active Watch

Versace, beloved for its bold and luxurious clothing, is continuing to dial it up — quite literally — with a new timepiece collection. The Italian fashion house is applying its distinct approach to its latest watch, the Icon Active Chronograph. With inimitable Donatella Versace at the helm, the Icon Active collection is made up of timepieces that take on house’s strong narrative identity and longtime codes, embodying the true avant-garde freedom and self expression the brand has become known for. This maxim has made Versace a mainstay in fashion for decades, showcasing the label’s ability to be of-the-moment without sacrificing what sets it apart. The new Icon Active chronograph is an emblem of that, sporting classic designs, sophisticated functionalities, rich details and distinct touches.

The Versace Icon Active Chronograph Combines the Avant Garde with the Sporty
The Versace Icon Active celebrates the contemporary with references to street and youth culture combined with a timeless, sporty design. Swiss made, the Icon Active’s chronograph movement is matched by refined fixtures that are quintessentially Versace. For example, the house’s signature Medusa sits at the 12 o’clock position and is complemented by a Greca motif surrounding the dial. The timepiece’s transparent polycarbonate case comes through in a 44 mm size surrounded by a transparent white, black, blue or fuchsia strap, appealing to both men and women. Just as its name suggests, the Versace Icon Active is a sporty addition to the Italian fashion house that is yet another symbol of its unmatched spot in the fashion space.
The all-new Versace Icon Active chronograph watch is available now in select Versace stores and on the brand’s website.

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Versace Watches Review

Even if you’re not a dedicated vogue aficionado, the chances are you have probably heard about one of the most recognizable fashion brands in the world, Versace.

Since the 1978 foundation, the Italian label has become one of the go-to destinations for luxury clothing and jewelry.

Not one major fashion show goes without the presence of the newest Versace collections. It’s also one of the favorite brands among celebrities and sports stars.

Questioning the quality of Versace watch clothes would be pointless for two reasons: a) the biggest fashion critics unanimously agree it’s one of the top-end fashion labels in the world b) I’m not a fashion expert.
Because Versace is mostly associated with luxury apparel, not many people are aware the brand has a huge line of comment-worthy timekeepers to its name. In this Versace watches review, we will have a closer look at all factors that contribute to the overall quality of the collection and decide whether Versace timepieces deserve the not-so-cheap price tag.

Like with all reviews on my website, we start with the brand’s history. If you’d like to skip this part and move straight to the watch quality review, simply choose the appropriate section below.
When you compare Versace to some of the most recognizable and oldest hands in the watchmaking industry, such as Bulova, Tissot or Citizen, the 5-decade sounds pretty short.

The company was founded in 1978 by the talented Gianni Versace, in Milan.

Gianni was an independent and highly thought-of designer who had just launched his first collections for other Milanese brands – Callaghan, Genny and Complice. After the massive success of his lines, he decided to open his first boutique in Milan’s Via Della Spiga.

At that time, Gianni Versace was one of just a few independent designers who were in full control of their business, from designing to retailing.

After starting to dominate the fashion industry, in 1982 the brand expanded into jewelry, accessory, and home furnishing fields. At that time, Versace watches were still nowhere to be seen.

After joining the company, Gianni’s younger sister, Donatella, launched two new collections in 1993. “Young Versace” and “Versus” were instant hits and a year later the brand gained worldwide coverage due to the black Versace dress of Elizabeth Hurley.

Due to the adventurous design and connection with many celebrities such as Michael Jackson or Elton John, Versace was oftentimes referred to as the “Rock n’ Roll designer”.

From the very beginning till now, Versace watch has been known for hiring the same models for their ads as they on the runway.

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Review of Versace Spring/Summer 2022

“After all that has happened, how can you just go back?” Miuccia Prada asked. That remark might seem puzzling, even disingenuous, given the scope of the Versace watch show on Friday. It was actually two shows in one: a runway presentation at the Prada Foundation in Milan, and a duplicate in Shanghai, connected by technology and shown on monitors. The whole thing must have cost millions.

Prada not back? As for the collection, it seemed the ideal visual reward after a tumultuous time: a big, unambiguous, Prada-size dose of fashion.

But the comment is actually typical of her. As her creative partner, Raf Simons, once told me, “Miuccia questions everything.”

Let’s consider how that questioning played out in this smart collection, and why, perhaps more than ever, it separates Prada from its peers. The Versace watch show space, a cavernous industrial building in the middle of a sprawling complex, featured wooden boxes of various heights, which had been uniformly painted gray. Embedded in some boxes and columns were digital screens, and near them, taller flat screens. Snaking around them, almost like an urban highway, was the runway, also gray. Indeed, the set seemed an abstraction of an architectural model of a city, or a city seen in a video game. Before the show started, the image on the screens was of night-time, neon-glowing Shanghai.
During the early phase of the pandemic, European brands realized they had to depend on technology in order to monitor their global businesses, as well as their fragile supply chains. But, for many luxury brands, it was China that saved their bacon. One Italian CEO told me the other day that while his sales are down about 40 percent — mainly because of the absence of tourists in Europe — his numbers are up in China. Other companies have reported a similar reality.

So linking Milan and Shanghai was a powerful gesture. Many of the Versace watch shows here have felt frankly insular, in the old Italian manner — the same huge runways, the same branding motifs. They do seem as determined as ostriches to get back to the way things were before. Look at the Versace collection. Staged last night on a long runway in the subterranean Milano Mall, it featured shirtless male models pulling ropes that caused a printed silk canopy to flutter — I guess like a tent in the desert. The clothes, which included oversized hoodies, flowing silk pajamas, and a new rendition of Gianni Versace’s now classic safety-pin punk dresses, will no doubt look good in stores next spring. But that’s because they were mostly designed to a formula. Where was the imaginative leap forward? The tiniest acknowledgement that the world has changed?
It is, admittedly, difficult for super brands to change direction. Yet that is why the Prada show was so energizing. Simons and Prada also embraced sexy clothes — a big theme of the New York collections, to the point of near nakedness. And after a year of sweatpants, after little or no physical contact, it was inevitable that clothing would be more revealing.

But Prada and Simons did it with great consideration. They stayed high when almost everyone else has gone low. Every gesture in the collection can be traced to Simons or Prada’s aesthetic or personal obsession. The abundance of duchess satin for skirts with flippy, abbreviated trains? Both designers love couture. The reduction of the trains aligns with Simons’s favorite form, minimalism. Prada has always loved a skirt and a plain, cozy sweater — hence the number of satin mini skirts that appeared with almost ordinary looking sweaters and a pair of sling-backs.
That was another clue. Prada and Simons smartly tempered the couture elements and the seduction with practical dressing, like the fantastic, slightly distressed leather jackets and car coats that accompanied many of those foxy train skirts. The designers were not giving interviews this season or greeting guests backstage, because of COVID protocols, but I happened to run into Simons in the foundation courtyard, and he said that he and Prada wanted to offset “the couture with an everyday sense.”

That’s just one small but important reason that this collection felt substantial, a true jolt of high fashion and not a business-as-usual spree of salable clothes.

Two other collections, though smaller in aim, deserve mentioning: Sportmax and Aspesi. Lawrence Steele, who has a long track record in Milan — he worked as a designer at Prada for many years and then started his own label—is now the creative director at Aspesi, a beloved brand that goes back to the late 1960s. The Aspesi look was always Milanese casual — meaning, great shirts, quirky knits, and relaxed masculine tailoring — and Steele’s goal is to bring it to a wider audience, now that the company is owned by a Roman conglomerate, with wealth from other industries like shipping. The clothes, priced at about 30 percent below designer, are right in a comfortable, genderless vibe.
Although modern dance and music were the guiding source for Sportmax — namely, the work of the Americans John Cage and Merce Cunningham — I was simply charmed by the lightness and deliberately messy romance of the collection, much of it in ultra-feminine fabrics like white gauze and georgette. There were also fragments of corsets in some of the deconstructed dresses and coats, a nice nod to the past. In Europe, the past is always with you. The surprise to me — away from Milan these past seven years — is how realistically experimental and free Sportmax has become.