Six years after Tom Ford bowed out at Gucci, a glass of Scotch in hand, Italian fashion has not recovered its magic and energy yet. This seasonal fashion show in Milan, a good but not great collection from Gucci’s Fridi Giannini, who scraped off most of the hardware, switched from black to chic camel and ostrich feathers, and may have let a guy — Peter Dundas at Pucci — steal her lunch.

Although Italy continues to pump out beautiful leather goods and well-made clothes, like the iconic bamboo bags at Gucci, which topped anything in Milan with their authority, it seems in many ways a country of reduced expectations. You hear a lot of people here, including designers, refer to “a TV culture,” as if the bright bimbo tackiness on the tube has leached into Italy’s creative soil.

Times change and change brings with it a new concept of chic. That meant coats in a slouchy patchwork of black and white fur, day skirts in swirly charmeuse with square-shoulder pinstriped jackets, and colors like coral red and Tibetan orange. However, the trouble here is: there is not enough fashion with a clear concept and image of how we live today. Find more Replica Gucci Handbags on sale.