Milan News

News from Milan: fashion and design, politics and economy

• Milano Moda Uomo The men s fashion week takes place from 17th - 20th January 2015 with the autumn-winter collection 2015-2016.
• Milan Fashion Week: From 25th February - 3rd March 2015 designers present at the Milano Moda Donna their collections for autum / winter 2015/2016 with shows and presentations.
• New Year's Eve in Milan wih the Verdi-opera “La Traviata” at La Scala. The New Year's Eve package is an ideal gift idea. Benefit from our complete offer with a performance at La Scala in Milan.
• Milan Fashion Week: From 18th to 23rd September designers present at the Milano Moda Donna their collections for spring / summer 2014 with over 170 shows and presentations. The Milan Fashion Week September 2014 has closed with a visitors record of 5 million in six days. The fashion week has been closed with a tango night in Palazzina Liberty, a dance performance with Argentine music and the fashion of the designer Gabriel Lage, and tango dancer Roberto Herrera as special guest. For the spring / summer 2014, it has been presented fashion full of energy and innovation, playful and technically, rigorous shapes and flowing fabrics, in many colors and black, sports fashion style and high tech materials. In Piazza Mercanti there are information points where the fashion shows are announced. Since 2012, the fashion shows has been held in a very nice atmosphere in the courtyard of the Castello Sforzesco, too.
• VOGUE Fashion's Night: On 17th September fashion shops from Piazza Duomo, fashion district to Corso Buenos Aires are prepared for the Vogue fashion night for shopping lovers from 7:00-11:30 p.m..
• MiTo Settembre Musica 2013: From the 4th to 21st September Milan and Turin are in the sign of the music festival MITO with over 200 musical events of the great classical orchestras and jazz with many national and international artists.
• Milan Fashion Week Milano Moda Uomo 22 to 25 June 2013 with the spring-summer collection 2014.
• 2013-06-04: Nomination of the new superintendent of La Scala. The new superintendent of the La Scala Opera is Alexander Pereira. The 65-year-old Austrian director of the Salzburg Festival was unanimously elected by the Board and will, Stéphane Lissner will replace in 2015. Alexander Pereira, director of the Salzburg Festival, the next Superintendent of Scala. This was announced by the mayor and chairman of the foundation, Giuliano Pisapia, at the end of the meeting of the Piermarini Theatre.
  Alexander Pereira was born at 11:10:47 in Vienna since 2012 and stands at the head of the Salzburg Festival, before he directed the work of the Zurich Opera. His experience also includes 12 years working at Olivetti.
• The new skyline in preparation of the EXPO: Urban areas and districts Porta Nuova CityLife
• Car Free Sundays in Milan, from 10:00 - 18:00 clock
  • Sunday 17th March Clock Spring Festival
  • Sunday 7 April Milano City Marathon
  • Sunday 12th May Day of the bicycle
  • Sunday 9th June Children's Day
  • Sunday 14th July day of street artists
  • Sunday 8 September European Week of Sustainable Mobility
  • Sunday 13th October 2 National day of walking
  • Sunday 17th November the start of the week "We were born to walk."
• From 09 to 14.04.2013 opens the Milan Furniture Fair for 52 Times its doors. The Salone Internazionale del Mobile takes place at the Fiera Milano. The Fuorisalone is present with many events throughout Milan. In Milan, the state museums offer free admission. Milan Furniture Fair
• Milano Moda Donna 20.-26.2. The Milan fashion show with the Milano Prêt-à-Porter by 23 to 25 February 2013 shows the autumn-winter collection 2013-2014.
• At the Darsena, the harbor basin of the Naviglio Grande, the work to restore the old harbor have begun. Until the EXPO Milano 2015 port should be accessible again. Around 2,500 sqm of green emerge.
• Milan Expo 2015, Germany signed the contract for participation in the World Expo. With 4,900 m² of space rented Germany's largest state and invested € 35-40 million
• Corso Como District - the second-fashion street of Milan, next to the Via Montenapoleone
  160 thousand m² pedestrian zone. Up to Furniture Fair in April 2013 in the area Garibaldi / Porta Nuova open more than 50 fashion boutiques, showrooms and art galleries, bars and restaurants in between.
• Free Wi-Fi Milano: 500 hotspots in Milan from September to provide free Wi-Fi access. Open WiFi Milano
• City Tax in Milan for the night per person per night: € 2 in the 1-star hotel, 3 € a 2-star Hote, 4 € in 3 star hotel, 5 € in 4 star Hote, 5 € in 5 -. star hotel.
• Congestion charging in Milan: "AREA C" Congestion