A long slick black overcoat featured seamless joins that had been impressed by the pulse of sound waves. Its new flagship at Via Moncler Jackets Montenapoleone 1 celebrates the brand's close relationship with the city of Milan, as the new Moncler flagship store is located at the heart of the city's fashion epicenter.

The friendly and collaborative working environment. Except, of course, that there is: Fujiwara's O.G. You have the standard overt Moncler badge on quite a few pieces, but that puffy quilting we're used to is not nearly as prominent www.monclersoutlets.com as you might think. I also don't think I've ever seen a more diesel zipper than the ones used here.

It's "anchor's away" for Moncler Gamme Bleu Spring 2013 and under Thom Browne's creative direction we imagine any nautical notion is fair game. Fall 2012's ode to Formula One racing, complete with puffer - paneled bodysuits and racing stripe accents, made sense for the season taking cues from protective driving gear to keep Gamme Bleu guys warm in the winter months.

Now in its third season, Moncler Genius is ambitious even by the standards of today's endless parade of partnerships. But the concept remains simple: a group of designers, chosen by Moncler CEO Remo Ruffini, are given free reign in the Moncler design studio to create their own collections.

Garment - dyeing is what it sounds like: putting the thing together and then dyeing it. We were on the east side of Milan next to a radical squat in a sprawling, abandoned factory, within which Remo Ruffini and his cohorts had laid out separate stages for their eight full Genius collections, plus three accessory collections (a fat - tire Danish e - bike; the super - cute hot - model - thronged Poldo dogwear; and Rimowa luggage) plus, oh yes, the genius but not "Genius" Rick Owens tour bus project on the side.