EXCLUSIVE: Fashionel with a review of the second day of Milan Fashion Week

What will he encounter at a market, or in a bar... or in Milan?

The second day of Milan Fashion Week for the fall/winter 2025/26 season was about dreaming... A different world that we all talk about, we all remember, and that we all, even fashion-wise, daydream about.

So, awake and conscious, we will dive into the world of dreams, but with comfort and a sense of elegance, and the morning when the Milanese sun wakes up on the second day of Milan Fashion Week is reserved precisely for an outfit from the ELENA LUKA brand that will allow us to dream: a soft and comfortable silk satin shirt and pants set, in a pattern that reflects our thoughts, embraced in a soft neoprene coat in a delicate pink shade.

Pairing it with a vintage brocade clutch bag will remind you of the values we want to dream about, and high heels will keep you grounded but allow you to reach high.

But every dream first needs reality, and in every reality we need to try to find beautiful things. One such reality, in which we try to survive, will be shown to us by Pietro Terzini's new and fresh collaboration for the Max&Co brand, which will give streetwear an ironic spin by writing phrases like "I hope your email won't find me" on the back of a burgundy jacket or "I prefer sunny days" on umbrellas. In another world, at the sister presentation, Weekend Max Mara will remind us of the heritage with excellently nonchalantly tailored pieces hanging in vintage closets or in the studio with an old desk.

It all starts with a dream... that girlish dream that envelops the world in which Vivetta always knows how to transport us. With scarves that literally offer hugs and collars that seem to be blown away by the wind, the sympathy for the pieces appeared on heart-shaped mantels and danced through the air to romantic music. Pleated jackets played up the earthy tones, while the red bow on the leather gloves made the perfect contrast to keep us grounded, while baby mint shorts tried to make our minds fly through dreams.

Then Marko Rambaldi took us to a market, whose interior intoxicated us with the scent of flowers as we ate apples and drank prosecco from vintage glasses. An experience that, although at first it seems mundane, is as precious as the juiciness and naturalness of the apples distributed to the guests in woven bags – an embrace for the senses that reminds us of sweet and pleasant times, when everything was simpler and the days were endless.

"Like T. S. Eliot, we believe that tradition cannot be inherited, but if you want it, you must acquire it with great effort and a lot of work - and we are not afraid of work," he would declare.

The pieces emerged from the family's vintage closets, and in search of a new harmony, they "aired" them with their fresh spirit. We youthfully add the "ADULTS ONLY" abors in red, and by wrapping the Bata ballet flats and the Klun lounges with a knitted ribbon, we continue to dream of a life "on our toes". The grandmother's favorites remain everywhere, and with their stretchiness create new memories in a "future memory".

So when for this season's Marni show, the house's creative director, Francesco Risso, imagines the runway as a bar covered in checkered tablecloths, he will bring us back to reality a little, but in the way that we really, as "adults", try to escape. In partnership with Martini, we will sip a cocktail that will awaken and remind us of the wacky aesthetic that we can expect and for which the brand is so adored.

The sip will take us into the world of the "Pink Sun", which is capable of creating unusual shadows, not the ones we are used to, but the ones that transport us to a different nightmare in an underworld of suffocating miasma.

In the strange lack of disharmony of materials, colors and structures, the outfits captivate with intrigue. The rockabilly feeling that emanates from them will make us look back several times to understand the structure, created by stiff A-line skirts paired with a two-tone sweater and fur, against the slightly contrasting material that peeks out from the folds. And as Amelia Gray, Tracee Ellis Jones, Paloma Elsaesser and Dara Allen pass by us between the tables, we will wish to live "in extraordinary times, in an extraordinary country, forever in flight and forever free."