Telling Fashion’s Fortune

Once upon a time, Cesare Badoglio, who puts his age at “between 80 and 99,” was the spirit whisperer for some of the brightest talents in Italian fashion. At his popular weekend events in Milan at the Hotel Verdi, Mr. Badoglio — tarot reader, astrologer, fortune teller — threw cards for Franco Moschino and Gianni…

ELLE’s Top Looks From Milan Fashion Week

Jacopo RauleGetty Images The decadence of Italian style is on full display right now as fashion month continues in Milan. With premiere designers presenting their latest spring-summer 2022 collections, we’re seeing lush textiles, glamorous evening wear, and a new fan-favorite, Blumarine’s Nicola Brognano’s continued exploration of early-aughts fashion that would make Paris Hilton proud. Of…

The New Days of Disco

MILAN — Climate Week had just begun in New York when seemingly half the fashion journalists, retailers and related style professionals in the city boarded a Delta flight to Milan — most for the first time since February 2020, just before the world came to a virus-induced halt. Despite all the talk that has been…