GX Fashion Week The Art of Fashion in the Heart of Milan

Between Palazzo Giureconsulti and Piazza Duomo, the latest edition of GX Fashion Week brought together international creativity, haute couture and aesthetic research, transforming the heart of Milan into a vibrant setting for contemporary fashion. There are places that simply host a fashion show, and others that, almost naturally, become part of it. Palazzo Giureconsulti belongs to the latter. On 28 September, in Milan’s most monumental heart, GX Fashion Week transformed one of the city’s landmark addresses into an international landscape of fashion, where craftsmanship, research and imagination found common ground. Just steps from the Duomo, the evening immediately took on a character of its own. Inside, a select audience; beyond the doors, the ceaseless movement of Milan. The city continued at its usual pace, yet in front of Palazzo Giureconsulti something managed to interrupt its rhythm: a dress, a face, a detail, the passing of a model. Eyes were drawn to the scene, captivated by that distinctive magnetism that only fashion, when it truly comes alive, can create. For a few hours, the boundary between runway and city became almost imperceptible. Milan was no longer merely the backdrop to the event, but a living presence, an ever-changing urban stage. At the heart of GX Fashion Week is Gentiana Dervishi, owner of the GX brand and organiser of the event. Over time, she has developed an international vision capable of connecting Milan, Paris and Albania, building a project in which different designers and cultures can meet through fashion. Her direction gives GX Fashion Week a distinct identity: international, contemporary and deeply connected to the fashion system. It is from this vision that the runway takes shape, entrusted to different aesthetic languages united by a shared desire to interpret fashion as expression, research and identity.

Xheksil Muça - The Legend of Muji and the Fairies

Opening the evening was Xheksil Muça, founder of P L I S I, with The Legend of Muji and the Fairies. The collection is rooted in Albanian folklore and in the legend of Muji and the Fairies, reinterpreted through a contemporary lens suspended between memory and imagination. The plis, an emblem of Albanian cultural identity, becomes a subject of creative exploration; tulle, knotted and constructed entirely by hand, creates transparencies and layers that seem to capture movement. Goat horns transformed into ceremonial crowns complete a universe in which the primitive meets the sophisticated and the female figure takes on an almost mythological presence.

Michele Umberto Perrera - Sartoria Perrera

With Michele Umberto Perrera, the runway turned to the living heritage of Italian haute couture. Founder of Sartoria Perrera, established in 1959, Perrera brings with him more than sixty years of experience, recognition and dedication to the art of tailoring. At the age of 88, he continues to create and present his collections, preserving a vision of fashion in which craftsmanship is not a relic of the past, but a form of culture that remains entirely relevant today. His presence, now a constant at GX Fashion Week, represents a rare sense of continuity within the contemporary fashion landscape.

Nina Tsiklauri - Unique Milano

The event’s international dimension found one of its most refined expressions in Nina Tsiklauri, founder of Unique Milano. Georgian by origin and deeply connected to the Italian tailoring tradition, the designer has developed an aesthetic language defined by balance, precision and character. Her woman does not seek attention: she commands it. It is a self-assured femininity in which the rigour of construction gives way to sensuality and elegance becomes a form of authority.

GX Fashion Week did not simply occupy one of Milan’s most prestigious venues: it allowed the city itself to enter the event. Palazzo Giureconsulti, the square, the architecture of the historic centre, the ceaseless flow of people and the spontaneous curiosity sparked by something unexpected came together to create a setting that could never be replicated.

The runway seemed to extend beyond the doors of the palazzo. And that evening, Milan itself appeared to keep walking alongside it.