Milan Fashion Week : The Bags. Part 1.

Menswear Spring/Summer 2012 show in Milan has ended late last week before continuing the trend for next year's season to Paris runways. Milan always set the trend when it comes to men's fashion, and what we're seeing is lots of colors and prints and pattern in true Italian flair. Some designers seem to tone down the affair, while some upped their game in giving you choices what to go for when the season appear in the year of London Olympic.

Anyway, as usual my eyes are on the accessories like neckwear, shoes and of course, the bags. My verdict for SS12? A mixed bags (no pun intended) coz lots of designers seem to give something new stuff, new designs again - some a different take on their usual fabrication and the fashion house's signature.

Let's see what are some of the bags out there for Spring/Summer 2012.

Bottega Veneta.

The house of Bottega continues with their signature intrecciato or braided, in Italian. Woven, if you may, coz that's what season after season after season are seen either on the edge of the bags or the whole body work or just on the handle. And of course, exotic skin is still in. What is new is the multicolored buttery soft intrecciato bags, which somehow reminds me of Neopolitan ice cream...

Corneliani

How many python has to be sacrificed to make those bags? Yikes... Btw, for those WWF-supporting people, you might wanna go for the canvas bags with the leather trim that looks so delish as well (or are those suede, instead?)

Costume National

Another season for foldable bags. After Gucci did last FW11, this time Costume National brought you the mlutch version in buttery soft leather. Or you can opt for the one with cross-strap, which somehow look like a boxer training pad thing (the one that the trainer hold for the punch, if you know what I mean).

Dolce & Gabbana

Surprisingly Dolce & Gabbana took the inspiration from the Italian fishing village and came up with the fori inspired collection. From the clothing to shoes and bags, most are having that theme : perforated, or net work. I actually love those that look like fishing nets, coz somehow it's different from others. Maybe after this I can ask those fisherman at Kuala Sepetang to copy the same. Ngg....

Oh, the big leather duffel bags look pretty nice too, which came across between a doctor's bag and previous Fendi women's bag (the one Anja Rubik hold in SS10 campaign).

[pix from gq style]