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Milan Fashion Week SS27 · Runway show Womenswear

Simon Cracker

By Filippo Biraghi. 47 looks, shown 22 September 2026 in Milan.

Founded 2010 · Independent

47Looks
0.7%Of the week's looks
57th / 154Largest show
22 SeptemberShow date

The collection, look by look

MILANO MODA DONNA - 22/28 SETTEMBRE 2026 · SS27

Every look in runway order as a column of the colours measured from its garments. Hover or use the arrow keys to read each one; play to walk the show.

Look 1Look 47
Look 11

Look 1 of 47

Who designs Simon Cracker

Co-director and brand coordinator

Filippo Biraghi

Italian

Partner of Simone Botte in running Simon Cracker, credited as brand coordinator. He co-presents the label's Milan collections and speaks for its satirical, anti-waste stance, framing upcycled pieces as commentary on wealth and fashion excess.

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Founder and creative director

Simone Botte

Since 2010 · about 16 years

Italian

Milan-based designer who began the label in 2010 by taking apart and remaking found garments. Working with deadstock, discarded materials and second-hand clothing, he has built Simon Cracker into an upcycling label whose Milan Fashion Week shows mix punk attitude with critiques of the luxury system.

Their runway style →

Traditions in the collection

Cultural influences →

2 of Simon Cracker's 50 looks draw on a specific dress or craft tradition, as read from the photographs. The house is based in Italy.

  • Simon Cracker, look 6: tartan / kilt
    Tartan / kilt · Scotland · European folk & regional dressLook 6

    Italy → Scotland

    “Knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by menswear look in kilt manner; dark green, navy and purple sett resembling Black Watch-type tartan; asymmetric deconstructed side panel.”

  • Simon Cracker, look 23: sashiko
    Sashiko · Japan · East AsiaLook 23

    Italy → Japan

    “Dark navy patch covered in scattered white running stitches, recalling sashiko's white-on-indigo stitching, though in a loose irregular layout rather than a geometric grid.”

Also in Milan, Spring/Summer 2027

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The fortnightly digest

Simon Cracker, in context

Every house is measured against every other, across every fashion week. The fortnightly digest sends you what moved, and who moved it.