How To Do Milan Likea Fashion Globetrotter

Travelling to Milan twice a year for the menswear shows has benefits beyond seeing the latest fashion first. Not least of which is getting to know the secret haunts of the tightly knit city-and sharing them with you.

- SAMUEL HINE

EVERY TIME I drop by the convivial, wood-panelled Bar Quadronno in Milan, I think: Thank God this place isn't in New York or Paris. If Quadronno—which has served as a clubhouse for fashion designers like Miuccia Prada and Matthieu Blazy—wormholed into any other city, it would be mobbed day and night by wannabe influencers. But not in Milano, which is full of spots with primo vibes that serve as unpretentious fashion-adjacent watering holes. Some are old, some newer, but all have been protected from touristic ruin by Milan's charming backwardness. I'm lucky to have a cheat code in Milan Fashion Week, which is basically a biannual speedrun through the city's maze of palazzos and pizzerias.