page_title: Fashion in Milan
section_title: Designers, houses, and modelling agencies
hierarchical_section_title: Fashion in Milan / Designers, houses, and modelling agencies
caption_attribution_description: English: Milan Fashion Week Italiano: Settimana della moda di Milano
context_page_description: The Italian city of Milan is recognised internationally as one of the world's most important fashion capitals, along with Paris, New York and London. It is additionally recognised as the main sartorial hub in the country, with Rome and Florence being other major centres.
  Milan has established a long history within the fields of fashion, textiles and design in general. Throughout the late 19th century, Milan, being the capital of Lombardy, was a major production centre, benefitting from its status as one of the country's salient economic and industrial powerhouses. Milanese fashion, despite taking inspiration from the leading Parisian couture of the time, developed its own approach, which was by nature devoted to sobriety, simplicity and the quality of the fabric. Throughout the 20th century, the city expanded its role as a fashion centre, with a number of rising designers contributing to Milan's image as a stylistic capital. Following this development, Milan emerged in the 1960s and 1980s as one of the world's pre-eminent trendsetters, maintaining this stint well into the 1990s and 2000s and culminating with its entrenchment as one of the "big four" global fashion capitals.
caption: An event in the 2010 Milan Fashion Week.
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