It's a slower and steadier approach to Fashion Week street style —which, as the adage goes, is a surer path to success. And it makes sense that Milan's street style has a less-is-more approach; simplicity is a distinctly Italian fashion sensibility, after all.

There’s a book called “White Walls, Designer Dresses.” In it, the architect Mark Wigley wrote that buildings are basically giant outfits, and living in them is wearing “a new kind of garment” that influences our actions,

Instead, most of us—myself included—wear office outfits best described as “practical,” “sensible,” or “simple.” However, the street stylers at Milan Fashion Week are currently proving that traditional 9-to-5 outfits can fall into that elusive first category.