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Emporio Armani
The bold black outlines that Giorgio Armani used in his Emporio Armani show gave the impression of a book of fashion sketches coming alive. Indeed, the thin black borders that traced everything, from skirt and dress hems down to the wedges on his new monster sandals, all had a hand-drawn, almost squiggly quality to them. The same artsy approach was taken on Mr. Armani's dressier segment where the flipped hems of sequinned dresses appeared to have been inserted with a curved hula-hoop. It was all good, light fashion fun, just like the straw panama hats lined with thick black ribbon stripe. The compressed alligator bags, meanwhile, elevated the show to a more luxe level