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Milan Fashion Week guide
Italian ready-to-wear, shown in palazzi.
In short
Milan Fashion Week suits travellers who want to see the city at its most fashion-minded. The runway shows are invitation-only. The February 2027 womenswear week runs from 23 February to 1 March. Watch shows online, gather outside the venues and book a room near a metro line early.
Milan Fashion Week is the city's turn on the international fashion calendar, the stretch of days when the big Italian houses show their next collections to buyers, editors and clients. It is organised by the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, whose forerunner was founded in 1958, and it counts as one of the Big Four alongside New York, London and Paris.
There are four editions a year. Womenswear, Milano Moda Donna, comes in late February and again in September; menswear, Milano Moda Uomo, takes January and June. Each season brings more than 40 shows, staged in palazzi, former industrial halls and the houses' own headquarters across the city.
The shows themselves are for invited guests only. What a visitor gets is the city during that week: crowds and street-style photographers outside the venues, shop windows dressed for the season, livestreams of the shows, and a Milan that is unusually busy, booked up and expensive for a few days.
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Key Facts & Stats:
Ends: Monday, 1 March 2027
Where: Milan, Italy
Venue: Venues across central Milan
Held: Every year
Type of event: Cultural Events, Arts Festivals
Currency: Euro (€ EUR)
Time zone: UTC+1, UTC+2 from late March to late October
Language: Italian
Map
Close to the venue
- Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II Attraction · 160 m
- Room Mate Collection Giulia Hotel · 170 m
Getting around
Hotels near the venue fill up around the event dates.
Watching shows from outside without getting in the way
Show entrances are working doorways with tight timings, so a little courtesy goes a long way.
- Check the calendar
- the Camera publishes the official schedule shortly before each edition; it tells you which house shows where and when.
- Arrive early
- guests arrive in the 30 minutes before a show, and the best kerbside spots go first.
- Stay behind barriers
- where security sets up a line, keep to it.
- Respect no-entry
- a confident walk to the door does not get you in, and staff will turn you away.
Clothing and transport for late February
Milan in late February is cold first thing and mild by mid-afternoon, with long days on foot between venues in different districts.
- A warm coat and a layer you can take off indoors.
- Comfortable shoes; the cobbles of Brera are unkind to new heels.
- A metro day ticket, since taxis are scarce during the shows.
- A charged phone with the show calendar and livestream links saved.
What happens on the day
- Weeks before
Calendar published
The Camera releases the official schedule of shows and presentations.
- Each show day
Arrivals
Guests, photographers and onlookers gather at venue entrances before each show.
- Show time
Livestreams
Many houses stream their show online as it happens.
- Final day
Last shows
The week winds down and the focus moves to Paris.
Booking accommodation as soon as dates are confirmed
Book a room as soon as the dates are confirmed. The Camera's calendar fixes the week months ahead, and hotels near the centre and in Porta Nuova, Brera and Tortona go first. Staying a metro ride out keeps the cost down without cutting you off from the venues.
Treat the week as a city trip with fashion in the air. Pick two or three houses whose shows you want to watch online, find out where they are held, and plan the rest of the day around the shopping streets and exhibitions. Our Italy travel page covers the rest of the country if you want to add days.
The Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana and Milan's rise
The Camera Sindacale della Moda Italiana was set up on 11 June 1958, the body that became today's Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana. Milan grew into Italy's ready-to-wear capital in the decades that followed, while Florence and Rome had earlier held the spotlight.
The modern week is a gathering of more than 40 shows a season in palaces such as Palazzo Reale and Palazzo Serbelloni and in company headquarters. Giorgio Armani announced in 2013 that he would join the Camera, and Carlo Capasa succeeded Mario Boselli as president in April 2015. The week has had its critics, including a Greenpeace protest in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in 2014 calling for toxic-free fashion.
Getting there
Flying in
Milan is served by Malpensa, Linate and, further out, Bergamo. Linate is closest to the centre and linked by the M4 metro line.
By train
Milano Centrale has high-speed services from Rome, Florence, Venice and Turin.
Between venues
The metro is quicker than taxis during show week, when cars are in short supply.
Where to stay during the festival
Brera, the area around Porta Nuova and the Tortona district put you closest to the action, and they are the first to fill and the most expensive.
A hotel near a metro stop further out, such as around Centrale or along the M1, is cheaper and only a short ride from most venues.
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Weather and what to pack
Late February in Milan is cool. The 1991-2020 normals for Milan Linate give February an average high of 10.0°C and a low of 0.6°C, with 38.2 mm of rain on about 4.5 days.
Mornings can be near freezing and fog is possible; afternoons are often bright and mild enough for a light coat.
Worth packing
- A warm coat
- A layer for heated showrooms and shops
- Comfortable shoes for cobbles
- A compact umbrella
- A metro travel ticket
- A power bank for livestreams and maps
Car hire in Milan
Airport transfer to Milan Fashion Week
Met at arrivals at Milan Linate Airport (LIN) and driven door to door to Venues across central Milan.
- Milan Linate Airport (LIN) → Venues across central Milan
- 9.4 km · 20 min
Restaurants and food in Italy
Places to eat in Italy before or after the celebrations.
Cantina Do Mori
Sestiere San Polo 429, 30125 Venice, Italy
Cuisine:VenetianCicchetti
- Dine-in
- Bar
- Counter seating
L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele
Via Cesare Sersale 1/7, 80139 Naples, Italy
Cuisine:Neapolitan pizzaPizzeria
- Dine-in
- Takeaway
Roscioli Salumeria con Cucina
Via dei Giubbonari 21, 00186 Rome, Italy
Cuisine:RomanItalian
- Dine-in
- Takeaway
- Counter seating
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Booking
No. Runway shows are invitation-only and invitations go to buyers, press, clients and people the brands want in the room. There is no public ticket sale for the shows themselves, and anyone offering one should be treated with suspicion.
Figures quoted for 2021 put it at about 30,000 attendees and visitors, with average spending of around €1,902 per visitor. Post-pandemic editions are generally larger, but no official comparable figure is published each season.
General
Watch from outside. Crowds gather at the entrances of the better-known venues to see guests arrive, and street-style photographers work the pavements. Many houses also stream their shows online on the day, so you can watch the collection and then walk past the venue.
The Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, a non-profit association of Italian fashion houses. It sets the official calendar, while each brand runs its own show and guest list.
Milano Moda Donna is the womenswear week and is the larger of the two. Milano Moda Uomo is menswear. Some houses show both lines together, so you will occasionally see menswear in a womenswear week and the other way round.
Most of the major ones do, but not always on the official calendar. Dolce & Gabbana, for example, has at times held shows outside the Camera's structure. Gucci made its debut on the Milan Fashion Week schedule in 2022 with a show cast with 68 pairs of twins.
The February week presents autumn/winter collections for the following season, so in 2027 the clothes on the runway are for autumn/winter 2027-2028. The September week shows the next spring/summer.
Only if you want the atmosphere. Hotel rates in the centre climb, restaurants near the showrooms fill up and taxis are harder to find. If fashion is not the reason for your trip, the weeks either side are calmer and cheaper.
Yes, and this is the most reliable way to see couture-level work as a visitor. Armani/Silos, Giorgio Armani's own exhibition space in the Tortona district, displays pieces from the house archive and is open to the public outside private events.
Yes, on public pavements, and it is a large part of the week. Keep clear of entrances, do not block arriving guests, and follow any instructions from security staff at the door.
Cancellations & changes
No. In July 2020 it was held in digital form, from 14 to 17 July, because of COVID-19. The shows were presented as films and streams, with no audience.