There was a smooth sleekness to the Fall 2013 collections during the recent Milan Fashion Week, with strong, coherent trends like rich colors, graphic designs, and sharp suiting coming to the fore, as evinced by The Last Magazine fashion director Alastair McKimm’s five favorite looks. Jil Sander continued her triumphant return to her namesake label with a clean and elegant collection that popped with electric blue, forest green, and bright red. She also presented several jumpers with X’s slashed across the chest, a look that was echoed in Neil Barrett’s Bauhaus-inspired pieces, which offered a refreshing take on an under-appreciated design school. The Bauhaus ideal of the Gesamtkunstwerk also popped up in Miuccia Prada’s enthralling show, with clean, pared-back designs set against the sleek lines of Rem Koolhaas’ new furniture collection. There was a winning richness to Frida Giannini’s designs for Gucci, all luxurious military coats and razor-thin suiting in gorgeous tones of hunter green and cobalt blue. And Italo Zucchelli continued his winning admixture of past and future over at Calvin Klein, showing traditional pieces in new fabrics with innovative techniques for a look that was as progressive as it was timeless.