In Milan, the Coat Goes Haute
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The hottest menswear on the runways in Milan are also the warmest: extravagant, oversized, embroidered, fur-trimmed coats.
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Life & style: In pictures: Valentin Yudashkin kicks off proceedings on day five of Milan fashion week
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Dolce & Gabbana spiced up the sixth day  of winter womenswear shows in Milan on Thursday with metal  masks, crops and corsets that eschewed cozy warmth for sizzling  fetish sex appeal.
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Retro chic ruled at Milan fashion week on  Monday as Giorgio Armani conjured up the serene elegance of a  bygone era and Dolce e Gabbana's D&G label picked up screaming  colors and clinging hotpants from the 1980s.
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In passerella maison famose da Chanel a Dior, ad Armani
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To their high society owners, a pair of haute couture shoes can be a precious thing.
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Designers looked to India at the start of fashion week in Milan, with Giorgio Armani taking inspiration from colonial elegance and Roberto Cavalli offering opulent Bollywood hype.
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Ever expect to see Italian soccer star Gianluigi Buffon rubbing shoulders with a large green ogre? In Milan you can.
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Giorgio Armani is upping the fashion stakes, taking on his French rivals with the launch of his first haute couture show in Paris next month.
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After the clobbering Italian fashion has taken of late, Isabella Rossellini is making a stand for Milan.
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British designer John Galliano injected  some street cred into the rarefied world of haute couture on  Monday, staging a 1960s-style "happening" to showcase his  latest made-to-measure creations for Christian Dior.
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Fashion Wire Daily - One has got to admire Giorgio Armani&#39;s energy, and dare one say it, cussedness. At an age when most people are retiring, the world&#39;s most famous designer gave himself the sternest of tasks - cracking haute couture, fashion&#39;s most sophisticated challenge.
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Karl Lagerfeld let it snow at fashion label Chanel on Friday, parading models in checkered tweed coats on a runway resembling a shiny ice block, their sparkling skates slung over their shoulders.
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In Italy's banking capital fashion asserts its tough, often intoxication vitality.
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A new luxury apartment complex in Milan is aimed at buyers who want to be environmentally conscious without too much sacrifice.
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The options on the winter coat rack seem endless: wool blends, puffy downs, tweeds, leathers, dark, bright, short, long.
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Donatella Versace, known for her sexy,  glitzy designs for womenswear, kept up the pace on Friday in a  winter 2007-08 show full of razzle, dazzle and silver.