Breaking Down Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015 Womenswear

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Stella Jean S/S 15

No one is having more of a blast with prints right now than the newish brand Stella Jean. They're bold, they're alive and they're sliding into your girl's DMs like an embroidered donkey eating those carrots you spent hours gathering.

No. 21 S/S 15

Another newer Italian brand to watch, No. 21 is like a really romantic girl who writes poetry in the mud. And you are willing to get into the mud with her because her sheer plaid is on point and you're thinking you could pull off her shantung kimono jacket if she'd only let you borrow it.

Dsquared S/S 15

With these geeky glasses and opulent separates paired with little ol' T-shirts, Dsquared proved that the Jenna Lyons Look is poised for global domination. Expect denim jackets over flight suits at the next Siberian Fashion Week. I'm calling it now.

Moschino S/S 15

No doubt you heard about Jeremy Scott's Barbie-themed collection because people love tweeting about dolls. Or whatever. Fashion followers may blanch at Scott's sources of inspiration—Barbie, SpongeBob, McDonald's—but his appropriation of mass consumer brand imagery for a loopy luxury house is such a cheeky commentary on the cheap thrills of fashion that you have to love it.

Versace S/S 15

The subject of your favorite song and favorite Lifetime movie showed a collection that felt scientific, with experiments in negative space: circles that were layered like a logo for the biology olympics, rings that floated across dresses like microbes in a petri dish, magnified mesh and garments that revealed an erogenous stripe of body (like censor bars, but, like, backwards). Don't you just love this for the next time you're crowned Miss America?

Dolce & Gabanna S/S 15

Ole, baby! Dolce & Gabanna is ready for women to don the traditional bull-fighter's uniform: the hot pant. This was very, like, sexy mourner from Andalucia. Like, maybe you're putting on an opulent silk coat covered with elaborate passements, but it's your husband’s funeral, so underneath you're wearing a high-waisted panty because you're also shopping for your next husband.

MSGM S/S 15

MSGM was inspired by Jonathan Franzen, who you may remember from reading books. The guy loves birds. And to the untrained male eye, this may look a little Anthropologie. (A bird motif inspired by a book? Is there a matching soap dish?) But tell me you wouldn't wear this sheer tulle hoodie. Just try to tell me you wouldn’t. I dare you.

Au Jour Le Jour S/S 15

Au Jour Le Jour is doing some of the weirdest prints in the game. Whereas many designers' prints are "inspired" by an object or animal—an abstracted photoprint of a cityscape, let's say, or painterly strokes that reference the movement of a cheetah—Au Jour Le Jour illustrates wacky stuff in bombastic colors and makes awesome matching sets out of it. Everyone is talking about the ice cream print jumpsuit, but these sequin banana jeans with the strawberry bra and shredded denim jacket were pretty cool too.

Marni S/S 15

Your rich middle school art teacher's favorite brand went in a more neutral direction for the first half of its collection, and signature psychedelic for the second half. This collection is perhaps the most #menswear thing to come out of Milan and you will probably worship its monk shapes and giant fucking ninja belts.