Milan's wacky, wonderful fashion week closes on quiet note

After Gucci's heads and Dolce & Gabbana's drones, Milan Fashion Week wrapped up Monday on a tranquil note with shows by Japanese designers.

A model carries a fake head as he wears a creation as part of the Gucci women's Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection, presented during the Milan Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

The six days of previews for next fall and winter is likely to be the most talked-about in a long time. Gucci's Alessandro Michele's message reverberated well beyond fashion world's epicenter when on Day 1, he sent out two models carrying replicas of their own heads through a pristine operating room backdrop. And the fashion crowd was awestruck on the penultimate day when Dolce & Gabbana unveiled their latest handbag, flown down the runway by a bunch of drones.

These houses are providing master classes in how to grab the attention of the new consumers. The trick remains to stay true to the brand's traditions and DNA — something being undertaken by new and new-ish designers at Ferragamo, Roberto Cavalli, Marni and Jil Sander.

A model carries a fake head as she wears a creation as part of the Gucci women's Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection, presented during the Milan Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Highlights from Monday's shows:

UJOH'S BRITISH ASSYMMETRY

Mitsuru Nishizaki's latest Ujoh collection combines British-inspired check, plaid and stripe fabrics with his own trademark asymmetrical and layered silhouette. It was the Tokyo-based designer's third year showing in Milan.

A model wears a creation part of Ujoh women's Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection, presented during the Milan Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Trousers got an update with mix-matched tapered legs, one in black, one in a red burgundy, with an asymmetrical button closure. The look is layered with a tunic-style sweater.

The attention to detail and workmanship come through in an off-the-shoulder black dress with a ruffled hem decorated with a field of blue embroidered flowers that continue into lacy 3-D adornments.

Models wear creations part of Ujoh women's Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection, presented during the Milan Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Nishizaki has tapped the Milan trend of wrapping, with knitwear that bunches and hugs the frame, and large oversized wraps that fasten over the shoulder with a leather strap. One in British plaid is covered with lurex intarsia.

A model wears a creation part of Ujoh women's Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection, presented during the Milan Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

ATSUSHI NAKASHIMA'S HOME-SOURCED TEXTILES

Atsushi Nakashima, who debuted his first collection in Milan last year, sees similarities between Milan and Tokyo, in that both cities cherish and pass on traditions.

A model wears a creation part of Atsushi Nakashima women's Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection, presented during the Milan Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

He stays close to his native Japan, however, when sourcing textiles. They included a double-face patchwork of panels that read inside and out, including washing instructions and instructions for wearing hoods.

The mixed men's and women's collection included a series of trenches, bombers and duffel coats in khaki and olive green, and his-and-hers matching sweatshirts with neon lizards, worn under suspenders.

A model wears a creation part of Atsushi Nakashima women's Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection, presented during the Milan Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Models wear creations part of Atsushi Nakashima women's Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection, presented during the Milan Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

A model wears a creation part of Atsushi Nakashima women's Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection, presented during the Milan Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

A model waits backstage prior to the Atsushi Nakashima women's Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection, presented during the Milan Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

A model is made up prior to the Atsushi Nakashima women's Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection, presented during the Milan Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

A model made up prior to the Atsushi Nakashima women's Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection, presented during the Milan Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

A model is made up prior to the Atsushi Nakashima women's Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection, presented during the Milan Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

SEATTLE (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a suburban Seattle police officer charged with murder in the death of a 26-year-old man outside a convenience store in 2019 — the third person the officer had killed in the past eight years.

Auburn officer Jeff Nelson shot and killed Jesse Sarey while trying to arrest him for disorderly conduct in an interaction that lasted just 67 seconds, authorities said. Sarey had reportedly been throwing things at cars.

Citing surveillance video from nearby businesses, prosecutors said Nelson wrestled with Sarey, repeatedly punched him in the head and shot him twice. As Sarey was wounded and reclined on the ground from the first shot, which struck his upper abdomen, Nelson cleared a jammed round out of his gun, glanced at a nearby witness, turned back to Sarey and shot him again — this time in the forehead, prosecutors said.

The case is the second to go to trial since Washington voters in 2018 made it easier to charge police by removing a standard that required prosecutors to prove they acted with malice; now, prosecutors must show that the level of force was unreasonable or unnecessary. In December, jurors acquitted three Tacoma police officers in the 2020 death of Manuel Ellis.

Nelson later said in a written statement that he believed Sarey had a knife and posed a threat before the first shot — and that Sarey was on his knees in a “squatting fashion … ready to spring forward” before the officer fired again. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder and first-degree assault.

An Iraq war veteran, Nelson joined the department in 2008.

The city of Auburn paid Sarey’s family $4 million to settle a civil rights claim and has paid nearly $2 million more to settle other litigation over Nelson’s actions as a police officer.

The trial, before King County Superior Court Judge Nicole Gaines Phelps at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, is expected to last several weeks. Gaines has ruled that jurors will not hear evidence about Nelson’s prior uses of deadly force or about Sarey’s history of drug use.

In one of those earlier cases, the city of Auburn agreed to pay $1.25 million to the family of a different man killed by Nelson, Isaiah Obet.

Obet had been reportedly breaking into houses and attempting to carry out a carjacking with a knife when Nelson confronted him in 2017. Nelson released his police dog, which bit Obet, and then shot the man in the torso. Obet, on the ground and still fighting off the police dog, started to try to get back up, and Nelson shot him again, in the head, police said.

Lawyers for Obet’s family said he posed no threat to anyone when he was shot. The Auburn Police Department disagreed.

“If Officer Nelson had not acted that day to protect the community, there could have been additional victims,” then-Police Chief Dan O’Neil said in a Facebook post after the family sued.

Nelson also shot and killed Brian Scaman, a Vietnam veteran with mental issues and a history of felonies, in 2011 after pulling Scaman over for a burned-out headlight. Scaman got out of his car with a knife and refused to drop it; Nelson shot him in the head. An inquest jury cleared Nelson of any wrongdoing.

In another case, Nelson used his patrol car in 2018 to strike Joseph Loren Allen, a man suspected of being a felon in possession of a firearm who was running away from police. At the time Nelson struck him, pinning him against a fence and breaking both his ankles, Allen was neither armed nor posing a threat to anyone, Allen's lawyer argued.

The lawyer, Mohammad Hamoudi, compiled a summary of Nelson's uses of force and filed it in federal court. It noted about three dozen times between 2012 and 2018 when Nelson sent his police dog after suspects and about a dozen times when he used neck restraint holds to render suspects unconscious.

The Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission, which oversees the certification of police in the state, has moved to discipline and possibly revoke Nelson’s badge, saying he has shown a pattern of “an intentional or reckless disregard for the rights of others.”

FILE - Auburn police officer Jeff Nelson appears in King County Superior Court, Aug. 24, 2020, in Kent, Wash. Jury selection began Monday, April 22, 2024, in the trial of the suburban Seattle police officer charged with murder in the death of a 26-year-old man outside a convenience store in 2019. (Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times via AP, File)