How is my day during fashion week? It’s a very normal day. I woke up at 7:30 am and then, after a shower and a short breakfast with coffee and biscuits I’m ready to dress me up. As you saw in the pictures before my style is very classic and, I hope, smart so, from my wardrobe I take a shirt, a pair of trousers, a tie and then a scarf that must be coloured, very coloured. In my opinion is are accessories, in the men’s warderobe, what the difference do: a crocodile or a precious leather wallet is a must for an elegant men. Wallet’s are the symbol that tell to everyone our status.  A part from wallets, I adore scarves: I put only scarves in silk or in cachemere and, like I said before, the scarves must be coloured. A man can play with scarves, that can be something that is seducing or only an useful accessory. Scarves can be coloured or simple, with embroidery or not, in silk or velvet: scarves are men’s best friend. After I have chosen my outfit I put on my suspenders. I wear only suspenders and I think that this are very sexy and so chic: everyone can wear suspenders but not everyone can wear a belt…remember it! Then I put on my shoes that are usually drivers: now I’m ready to go out.

The third day of Milan’s fashion week was a very busy day: only one show and many presentations. The show was the Etro show in via Piranesi 14, the presentations were of Arfango, Baldinini and Gianvito Rossi.

Before a show, if it is a famous brand that presents his collection, the police stops the streets to let the people enter in the place were the show takes part. After the people that have a sitting place entered, the bodyguards let the people, who have a standing place, enter. After this routine, that is boring you can enter and see, finally, the runway. By Etro, because he is a big and famous brand there is a bouffet for the fashion show hosts. Etro’s bouffet is famous round the world, because it’s exquisite. In the Etro fashion show I had a standing place, but, usually, not everyone comes to this show and so the sitting places that are free can be occupied by the people who had the standing invitation. I occupied one of the sitting places and I was in the third row; in front of me there was mister Tim Blanks that I adore, because he is smart, intelligent and knows what he writes in his articles. After this long routine I watched the Etro show that, for me, was sublime: the cuts, the shapes, the models were absolutely gorgeous. When the show is finished you can go and take your gift, this year, it was a bottle of water signed Etro, I adore it! The nice thing is when you exit from the runway location, because there are all the fotographers that, if you are well dressed take a picture of you and then, whjen the show is finished all the models came out and, by Etro I did an interview to Monica Jac Jac. (the interview to her you will find in the next days her on MIME).

Presentations are different from a show because you can go there and watch the collection with the press girl or man that explains you the collection. I like presentations because there is also possible to eat something, Arfango, for example prepared an amazing Tuscany menù that was served to the presentation’s hosts. Usually for press, the brands make a gift that is a way to say thank you for the press that comes and visits the showroom. Gianvito Rossi and Baldinini made me a gift.

Good Night

Ivan Allegranti