Philipp Plein military guns Fashion Show

Milan Men's autumn/winter 2013 fashion week saw Philipp Plein showcase a military-inspired collection, complete with guns, gasmasks and balaclavas.

A look from Philipp Plein’s autumn/winter 2013 catwalk show Photo: Vladimir Potop

Philipp Plein has been raising his sartorial profile, of late. Far from ordering his PR team to pump out the press releases, the German designer has gone full throttle into his 2013 campaigns and collections, with some controversial imagery.

First up, Plein's spring/summer 2013 campaign sourced Márcio and Marcos Patriota - the Brazilian twins who have overtly shown their brotherly love, while clad in tight briefs, on more than one occasion. For Plein's summer range, Terry Richardson captured the duo locked in a lustful, suit-bedecked embrace, mere metres away from a glam Poppy Delevingne and transexual model Lea T.

Philipp Plein's spring/summer 2013 campaign featuring models Marcio and Marcos Patriota, Lea T and Poppy Delevingne.

Milan men's autumn/winter 2013 fashion week then saw the designer spark shock and Twitter frenzy as he showcased a collection of gun-wielding models, with war-painted cheeks and capitalised red-inked slogans on their bare torsos. Though the statements 'ONLY KILL FOR REAL LOVE' and 'LIFE'S A GAME AND IT'S NOT FAIR' might stand as morally ambiguous - or teen angst ridden - the machine gun, balaclava and gas mask accessories left little scope for viewers to see the collection as merely high fashion.

Looks from Philipp Plein's autumn/winter 2013 catwalk show. PHOTOS: Vladimir Potop

Stealing the 'activist' press from Vivienne Westwood, who presented her collection in Milan the day before, Plein took his bow in a khaki get-up with dog tag and military boots.

THIS is the Color of 2013

Pantone, the global authority on colour, announce emerald green as the colour of 2013.

Every December, Pantone, the provider of professional colour standards to the design industries, announces its colour forecast for the following year. 2012 saw Tangerine Tango in the frame, and the hue for 2013 has been announced as emerald.

"The most abundant hue in nature, the human eye sees more green than any other colour" explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Colour Institute of the shade, adding: "This powerful and universally-appealing tone translates easily to both fashion and home interiors."

Pantone's Institute combs the world of entertainment to travel, sports events to new textile developments - looking for colour influences. The fashion world's adoption of green also plays a part: its recent rise on the red carpet and on the catwalks, and in men's sportswear knitwear and ties, add to Pantone's belief that emerald will "continue to make a statement beyond spring and summer into fall and winter."