Milan Fashion Week
Giorgio Armani, Spring/Summer ’08
Giorgio Armani
‘Heading South’ was the name given to the show, and for Italians Sud or South means Sicily. The ‘Sicilian Way’ according to Armani is calmer and more relaxed than Milan, hence the tie and sometimes the shirt, were dispensed with all together.
In place of the latter was a waistcoat with a voluminous shawl collar that almost doubled up as a scarf (scarves were a strong theme seen also at Burberry and Neil Barrett).
Sicily also gave Armani his palette with sun-bleached white and his very own greige (from wet sand) as well as the forever-classic blue. Smart yet relaxed tailoring was broken down and eased up by combining fabrics - jacket in one, pants in another, waistcoat in a third - but often worked in the same breezy hues. Fabrics were specially developed to ‘indulge the most subtle of all the senses: touch’, especially for the multitude of T-shirts, another alternative for the shirt.
Armani is famous for deconstructing the suit, he now softened up his bags, with models holding them folded in their hand like panama hats.
Giorgio Armani
‘Heading South’ was the name given to the show, and for Italians Sud or South means Sicily. The ‘Sicilian Way’ according to Armani is calmer and more relaxed than Milan, hence the tie and sometimes the shirt, were dispensed with all together.
In place of the latter was a waistcoat with a voluminous shawl collar that almost doubled up as a scarf (scarves were a strong theme seen also at Burberry and Neil Barrett).
Sicily also gave Armani his palette with sun-bleached white and his very own greige (from wet sand) as well as the forever-classic blue. Smart yet relaxed tailoring was broken down and eased up by combining fabrics - jacket in one, pants in another, waistcoat in a third - but often worked in the same breezy hues. Fabrics were specially developed to ‘indulge the most subtle of all the senses: touch’, especially for the multitude of T-shirts, another alternative for the shirt.
Armani is famous for deconstructing the suit, he now softened up his bags, with models holding them folded in their hand like panama hats.
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fashion 27 Jun 2007
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