DATE: 27th September 2020: PLACE: Graduate Fashion Italia. TIME: 19.00

Nurturing the next generation of fashion talents has become a key initiative for the Italian chamber of fashion, which hosted its Milano Moda Graduate talent scouting competition for the seventh year. The Accademia Costume & Moda presented 18 students (10 for clothing and 8 for accessories) who were given the opportunity to collaborate with 47 Made in Italy companies to create 18 Capsule Collections (6 outfits each) that were presented. The results are raw, refined and sincere. Collections speak through contradiction – pairing brutalist silhouettes with fragile detailing, or exposing the seams between couture craft and emotional vulnerability. Some pieces evoke a posthuman future, others revive the ghosts of disappearing local identities. In all cases, there is an urgency to connect – to self, to story, to community.