Attending the Armani Privé high fashion show in Paris, has always been a privilege for little happy few, power and money aristocracy or top-top journalists. But, thanks to the pandemic, rules have been broken this year and Giorgio Armani offered a much wider audience the latest haute couture collection via web, from his wonderful Palazzo Orsini in via Durini, Milan.
Among delicate frescoes, large mirrors and imposing drapes, his models paraded weightlessly, wearing Botticelli transparencies easily with nonchalance, evanescent blue, crystal flowers, jewel-jackets, tulle capes and the latest “invention”: long jade necklaces which wrap around the upper body as essential waistcoat. It makes you want to brush up on somewhat obsolete words (and values) to comment on this collection that is not afraid to look back while remaining well closed to the present: kindness, education, harmony, sweetness, respect, awareness.
It’s Giorgio Armani usual mood. Here, once more, declined with artistry. Still visible on www.armani.com