Why Matteo Renzi should be Milan Fashion’s Role Model — vogue.it

There is a favourite line from rockers, hippies and love children about their misspent, drug-filled, manic youth: “If you can remember the Seventies, you weren’t there!” One person who can honestly say he was not present is Matteo Renzi, Italy’s youthful new Prime Minister. Now just 39, he was born in 1975, well after the Age of Aquarius and the Summer of Love back in 1967. In the Seventies, he was barely in his cradle. So with this dynamic role model of the youngest leader in Europe and beyond, why would designers at Milan Fashion Week appear to be mad about the Seventies?

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