Milan Fashion Week Men's 2019: Show highlights and hot collections

Milan Fashion Week Men's brought some of the world's hottest designers to Italy to show their latest collections. Here's our pick of the best looks and ones-to-watch.

Ermenegildo Zegna opened the Milan Fashion Week shows in a monumental manner, staging the affair at Milan's most popular train station, Milano Centrale. From outside the station onlookers buzzed with curiosity and inside, beautiful men's clothing abounded.

For AW19, Alessandro Sartori, Zegna's artistic director operated as a menswear master-at-arms, with clothing that moved in terms of colour, silhouette, texture and variety. Key colours were aubergine, khaki, plum, green and grey. Key fabrics included cashmere, nylon, suede and wool. As for key pieces, puffa jackets, coats and combat trousers popped up frequently – all draped on the most diverse casting of models across the Milan shows. A truly magnificent showing that set the bar for every other brand that came after.

MSGM

The word ‘TURBO’ was emblazed on MSGM’s invite and that set the tone for what was a high-octane racing-inspired men’s fashion showcase.

For AW19 Massimo Giorgetti, the brand’s creative director, served up a hearty offering of clothing a man could stand out and move ahead in. Leather was aplenty and turbocharged in colours of orange, red and fluorescents, while denim featured in suit-sets and bombers, stemming from white to blue to grey. As for the prints, one word seemed appropriate: vroom – they were loud and hot (figuratively with trending leopard options and literally with fire flames). All the boldness was complemented by coats, jackets and trousers in muted tones of camel, pink and white. Go on Massimo.

Billionaire

Billionaire's AW19 show was befitting of a billionaire who plays a lot of polo. The show location, a makeshift snow-covered polo grounds within the historic Palazzo del Senato served as the foundation for the announcement that the brand will be sponsoring the Monte Carlo (Snow) Polo Team. Elegance, opulence and handsomeness inspired by the equestrian world was the M.O. with garments fashioned out of the exotic – astrakhan, crocodile, mink, and silk – aplenty, and all real.

Known for exclusively casting an assembly of mature models, Billionaire sadly bounced south of the ethnic diversity totem pole. Perhaps next season colour will extend beyond the standout and luxurious blazers, jackets, suits, and boots. Nevertheless and in the meantime, a warm multi-hued menswear serving of polo-luxe will be on offer for the man with money.

DSquared2

Dean and Dan took us to the alps in punk style for AW19 and DSQUARED2’s queue was not the blend in but rather stand out amidst the sea of monotone snow. Crazy were the colours, electric the energy, glaring the graphics and tactile the textures, making for a total rocker-meets-mountaineer mood, with a bit of cowboy sprinkled in.

Holographic prints, patent leather, metallic python, sequins, shearling and studs were scattered throughout a collection of cool anoraks, tension trousers (with braces), oversized parkers, neckties, vests and western shirts. As for the footing, mountain boots of course. All in all, a party of showing punctuated by the best party on the Milan calendar.

Fendi

Silvia Venturi Fendi, the creative force behind Fendi’s menswear arm, forged a collection that was cool, contemporized and fit for a man with style moves to make and things to carry – akin to Karl Lagerfeld, the inspiration and contributor to the AW19 collection.