Giorgio Armani laid his playing cards on the desk this afternoon with a set entitled All In. Earlier than the present started, he shuffled the set-up at his Through Bergognone trend Teatro right into a three-aisle runway cut up. Then he dealt us 96 appears (two of them mixed in a single hand) of excessive stakes womenswear.
There have been enjoying card motifs operating by way of the gathering. Silk skirts, shirts and scarves, chiffon puffball attire and culottes, wool jacquard pants, and velvet jacquard suiting had been all patterned with a scattered card print which, when deconstructed into an angular sample, regarded Gio Ponti-esque. Later Armani inserted embellished enjoying card embroideries into black appears; so a pair peeked from beneath the huge belt of a full skirted poplin gown, or from the highest pocket of a croupier-sharp black jacket. One black bomber was decked out with playing cards of all fits, plus an Armani eagle joker. Elsewhere he used the center as an expressive emblem on the left hip of a sensationally scarlet jacket, and as a black velvet chest piece worn beneath a silk waistcoat whose breast pocket featured extra playing cards. A collarless pale silk jacket was patterned with spades and extra eagles. One wool coat was embroidered with the face playing cards.
These light thematics recommended Armani was hustling his girl to take a danger and gamble on daring approaches to dressing. In look 62 his king and queen wore royally lush coats of black shearling, which together with fake fur has been by far and away the most well-liked guess throughout all of the exhibits this Milan season. Finely fringed tops, horsehair sneakers and tailoring, plus some fur-ish cheetah sample appears close to the beginning had been a wager on texture. Jackets and pants in semi-opaque liquid-finish materials hazed with blue swirls, and crystal-set black attire set in physique mapping grids of lace had been certain issues. You possibly can at all times guess on Giorgio Armani.