The Best Looks From Milan Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2023

There’s only one word to describe Matthieu Blazy’s vision for Bottega Veneta: epic. For the uninitiated, this is the third and final installment in Blazy’s series of “Italia” shows, honoring the everyday cast of characters the designer encounters on the regular in Milan. This time, he turned the dial up to 11, making day-to-day looks fantastical, sculptural, and rife with imagination, drawing from Milanese layering codes (why wear one shirt when you could wear three?) and Umberto Boccioni sculptures. Leather was, again, the name of the game here, with knit sock boots and sweaters rendered in nappa leather, plus leather paper shopping bags, a variety of new top-handle and bucket bags, and pumps for men and women. There is so much drama and precision in the clothing that the pieces could come off as stuffy, but with Blazy’s unbridled passion, the 80-plus look show feels like just the tip of his proverbial iceberg, and by far the most exciting show of the week.—Kevin LeBlanc, fashion associate