“Female players, of all kinds, need to work twice as hard to be recognised and be patient while enduring one test after another,” the designer wrote on Instagram, while the walls of the venue were covered in intimate iPhone notes detailing just how difficult it had been to find 20 female football players to open the show. Click through our BTS gallery to see the rest of Cormio’s AW23 collection at Milan Fashion Week.
Photography Cris Fragkou