Lewis Hamilton and Colman Domingo lead a star-studded front row at Ralph Lauren's Milan show

MILAN (AP) — Lewis Hamilton hobnobbed with Colman Domingo in the front row of Ralph Lauren's Milan Fashion Week show, trading notes on a menswear collection that ran the gamut from bankerly pinstripes to layered festival wear.

The fashion powerhouse has shown menswear in its stately Milan palazzo the last two seasons, drawing an A-list crowd Friday evening that also included “Crazy Rich Asians” star Henry Golding, “Avengers” actor Tom Hiddleston, U.S. actor Scott Eastwood.

Outside, eager fans braved a heatwave to glimpse of arriving celebrities and were rewarded as Thai actor Nichakoon Khajornborirak, nicknamed Meen, and Korean actor Kim Woo-bin each took a moment to turn and wave as the crowd snapped photos. Domingo took a slide on his way inside, as he circled back to his car to grab his hand fan.

“I was not going to leave that fan in that car. Then my heel just slid, and I was safe. But I got the fan, which was the most important thing,” Domingo said after the evening show, which followed a very hot and humid early summer day in Milan.

Daytime suits from Ralph Lauren’s luxury Purple line quickly morphed into tuxedo shirts and stiff bow ties under trailing patchwork denim coats that showed signs of distress. Looks were finished with berets worn askew, aviator glasses and pocket watch chains.

“Today I saw it felt like 1920s-inspired,” Domingo said, stopping to listen to Nat King Cole play in the background. “It’s evocative of what we saw today. A mixture of old and new.”

On the more casual side, colorful madras plaids held together the sportier Polo collection of layered knitwear, rugby shirts and light puffers more adapted to a mountain festival or night-time beach party than a Milan heatwave. Some looks were straight out of the “Preppy Handbook,” with pink and green happily colliding. Cheekily, the coveted Polo Bear motif on knitwear wore outfits matching the runway.

“I saw beautiful cravats and vests mixed in with like workwear, all the things I love about Ralph, bringing things from day to night, from the street, from urban communities to East Hampton,” Domingo added. “It was a great mix. Getting a car from Brooklyn and going to East Hampton, you feel like you fit right in.”

Formal and casual looks gradually converged throughout the collection, without regard for occasion. Runway casting was similarly age- and race-inclusive.

Silk scarves accenting suits became colorful bandanas on casual looks. Ties became belts and were sewn together to make bags, suggesting a reusability on trend with up-cycling. Footwear ranged from leather fisherman’s sandals to velvet slippers and espadrilles to rain-resistant duck boots. For bags, men can choose from Ralph Lauren-branded canvas totes or luxury snakeskin portfolios and bags.

Eastwood said he had his eye on a snakeskin bag. “This is just a classy brand that’s timeless,’’ said Eastwood, adding that his father, actor and director Clint Eastwood, and brand founder Ralph Lauren go way back.

Golding said Ralph Lauren had long supported him in his career, and that “the Purple label is just my go-to for anything refined.”

A model wears a creation as part of the Ralph Lauren Spring/Summer 2027 men's collection presented in Milan, Italy, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

A model wears a creation as part of the Ralph Lauren Spring/Summer 2027 men's collection presented in Milan, Italy, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

A model wears a creation as part of the Ralph Lauren Spring/Summer 2027 men's collection presented in Milan, Italy, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Lewis Hamilton, right hugs Colman Domingo as he arrives for the Ralph Lauren Spring/Summer 2027 men's collection, presented in Milan, Italy, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

A model wears a creation as part of the Ralph Lauren Spring/Summer 2027 men's collection presented in Milan, Italy, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is traveling Saturday to northern Italy to pay homage to two figures of Christian devotion: St. Augustine, the inspiration for his religious order, and Mother Frances Cabrini, the patron of migrants who became the first American saint.

Leo’s day trip marks the midway point of his summer 2026 grand tour of Italy, in which the American pope has scheduled a series of Saturday day trips up and down the peninsula and its islands to get to know his new flock.

The pope's first stop Saturday is the Lombardy city of Pavia to pray at the tomb of St. Augustine, the fifth-century titan of early Christianity who centuries later inspired the formation of Leo's Augustinian religious order.

Leo proclaimed himself a “son of St. Augustine” on the night of his election and has cited Augustine prolifically in his first year, making clear that the saint is the guiding inspiration of his pontificate.

Augustine was born in 354 in what is today Algeria, but he lived for five years in and around Milan, where he converted to Christianity. He later became a bishop, developed a rule for monastic life and wrote some of the most important works of Western thought, including “Confessions” and “The City of God.”

In April, Leo made a pilgrimage to Annaba, Algeria, modern-day Hippo, where Augustine lived, preached and died.

Later Saturday, Leo is due to visit nearby Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, the birthplace of Mother Cabrini, the patron saint of migrants. Cabrini is well-known to many Americans for her work caring for Italian immigrants in the United States at the turn of the last century.

After she died in 1917, as a naturalized U.S. citizen in Leo's native Chicago, Cabrini was beatified and in 1946 made a saint by Pope Pius XII. In a radio message that year, Pius called her a “heroine of modern times.”

Just last year, Leo’s alma mater, Villanova University outside Philadelphia, opened a new campus named for Cabrini and a special Institute on Immigration inspired by her service to migrants.

As the late Pope Francis did before him, Leo has embraced the Catholic Church's Gospel-mandated call to “welcome the stranger” in his ministry to migrants. Last week, Leo spent two days in Spain's Canary Islands, a major destination for migrants leaving West Africa, where he called for welcoming and integrating those fleeing hardship and conflict.

Leo's next day trip is on July 4, when he heads to Lampedusa, the Sicilian island that is a major destination for migrants fleeing North Africa for Italy.

History’s first U.S.-born pope has clashed with the Trump administration over its crackdown on migrants and mass deportation program, giving added symbolic significance to his decision to spend July 4 - U.S. Independence Day in Lampedusa.

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Pope Leo XIV leaves at the end of the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Leo XIV arrives for weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Leo XIV holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)