Milan Fashion Week: Moschino autumn/winter 2012

While Milan continues to speculate about the (increasingly likely) return of Jil Sander to the eponymous label she founded in 1968, another famous brand got on with doing business its own way. Rossella Jardini, creative director of Moschino, has maintained a deliberately low profile since taking over from the extrovert Franco Moschino after his death in 1994, without any apparent harm to the bottom line.

This is an unusual house in many ways. If you asked fashion savvy consumers to sum up the Sander aesthetic, they might offer up neon colour, voluminous shapes, understated tailoring, flawless shift dresses. Ask them to define Marc Jacobs - a designer who chops and changes each season - and they'd immediately respond with quilted bags and mouse pumps. But Moschino? Whacky shows? Oodles of kitsch styling? There was all that today, beginning with the first leather stetson, cropped quilted leather jackets and leather biker leggings. That's just one outfit, in case you were wondering. Plus white and purple block colour or scarlet versions, also in quilted leather

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