Sober Gentlemen’s War Gear From The Maestro’s House: The Armani show as part of the Milan Fashion Week Womens-Mens collection Fall-Winter 2026-2027, in Milan on February 26, 2026. (Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP via Getty Images)
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Muted, sober earth tones on the men, sturdy shirts, sturdy weaves to the suits and vests, and down-on-the-brow-low newsboy caps were on show at Armani, as if the late designers’ successors at his eponymous house were chaneling men who were, overnight, snatched from their day jobs and thrust into an underground resistance army — fighting against an unnamed, but you-know-who, sort of invader. Vive la Resistance! Get those gentlemen some good musketry and a shipment of FGM infrared-guided anti-tank missiles, stat! Armani is on the story.
The Muted American In War-Ready Europe: American actress Sarah Pidgeon outside the Prada show during the Milan Menswear Fall/Winter 2026/2027 Fashion Week on February 26, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Victor Boyko/Getty Images)
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If the current conflagrations across Europe and Asia were an epic war movie directed by Howard Hawks or John Ford rather than a daily reality, American ingenue Sarah Pidgeon would be perfectly cast as the wife of a fighter pilot gunning his F35C off of, and onto, the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln. Memo to Ridley Scott: Come on, man, put another stylish modern war epic together, stat, it’s been forever since Gladiator II. We recommend Jacob Elordi as the pilot, with Paul Mescal as his wingman.
Presidential Daughter-In-Law Ready For Deployment: Karlie Kloss leaves the Gucci fashion show during the Milan Womenswear Fall/Winter 2026/2027 Fashion Week on February 27, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Jacopo Raule/Getty Images)
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No front-row denizen in Milan this week screams world-on-the-precipice-of-the-Big-One like Karlie Kloss, pictured above in an almost perfect salute outside the Gucci show on February 27. Daughter-in-law of the president and sister-in-law to Jared Kushner, permanent kitchen cabinet member and co-Middle-East envoy-in-chief, kits out smartly in a sober fitted black blazer over a super-crisp regulation shipboard-white jean, should she be called by her in-laws to boost the morale of the hardworking flight-deck shooters and other launch technicians of the Navy’s USS Gerald R. Ford and USS Abraham Lincoln as they send the F-35C patrols over the Gulf, the Red Sea, the Eastern Med, you name it. All she needs is her soundproofed radio helmet and a sturdy fire-retardant HAZMAT overall because carrier flight decks during combat are famously dangerous, breezy, and above all loud.
MILAN, ITALY – FEBRUARY 27: Aryna Sabalenka leaves the Gucci fashion show during the Milan Womenswear Fall/Winter 2026/2027 Fashion Week on February 27, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Jacopo Raule/Getty Images)
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Current WTF world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, fresh off the a supertight loss in the womens’ singles final of the Australian Open on January 31, pictured above in an all-business man-cut pinstripe blazer outside the Gucci show on February 27, has repeatedly left no doubt in her press interviews over her position on the war in the Ukraine: She does not support the Russian invasion nor her own Belarus strongman and president-for-life Lukashenko. Kudos for her.