2. The intrigues about who will replace Frida Giannini at the helm of Gucci have more traction than an HBO series

This desire for controversy is added to the rampant speculation that exists about who will replace Giannini, whose appointment is rumored to be made public next week, and that this show has not helped to clarify. At the end of the show, the creative team that Giannini assembled came out to greet him, but it is almost certain that it will be a name from abroad who will occupy his chair, and the bets range from "a semi-unknown Italian" (latest news) to designers as diverse as Riccardo Tisci, Joseph Altuzarra or Tom Ford himself, who made Gucci's first big takeoff and, in fact, was the one who hired the outgoing designer. In a triple carambola of oblivion, the show's soundtrack was the music of A Single Man, the 2009 film Ford directed. So add gossip (the unofficial hobby of the fashion world) to the gender debate (the hot for the world at large) and you'll get the idea: in a season that won't go down in the annals of fashion history, the Gucci collection has been like getting a serving of popcorn at the movies.3. Now nature is the most

Not only because the Milan Expo, which opens in May, has sustainability as its flag, just as the one in Seville had real estate speculation. The greats of men's fashion have decided that what is natural, in addition to being fundamental as a criterion for the production of garments, is perfect as a) a protest tool, and b) a legitimate show. In an appeal to sustainability, on Friday Ermenegildo Zegna planted an orchard in an industrial space and, amid sounds of the jungle, paraded his models on a dirt floor (the trees had been transplanted from the Oasis Zegna, the natural park that the brand owns in Piedmont, where they will have been returned by now). Ferragamo designed a wooded landscape to serve as the background for flocks of birds patterned on a coat, an owl on a coat, and even a zebra embroidered on the back of a parka. The Moncler guys weren't dressed in anything that suggested an eco-friendly aesthetic, but their boys used trees planted along the catwalk to rip off their pants and hang up their coats (and show off the graphic collection their designer, Thom had devised). Browne). All this will not help to change the opinion of those who think that fashion is a circus, but it is candy for anyone who appreciates a good show.4. The future is tracksuit

"This is sportive sartoriale", they explained to us during the presentation of Brunello Cucinelli, the Italian who has made cashmere and corporate social responsibility the two (unexpected) reasons for his success. The Italian was referring to what he does best, a harmonious mix of clothing with sporty elements, in natural tones and extremely soft textures, but that concise definition could be applied to 90% of the collections we've seen in Milan so far. From Emporio Armani (whose best clothes were a nod to what an elegant orthodox would call loungewear) to Tod's and Hogan, to Jil Sander, who presented the first collection of his new designer, Rodolfo Paglialunga (new, moreover, in men's clothing). Not that one is very in favor of the tracksuit, but know that all intermediate points between the formal and the casual, and all the possible combinations of its elements, will be what you will see hanging on the hangers of the coming autumn-winter.5 . Those who have come to become modern, there is the door