Bikini girl beauty 19
Even though he’s well into his seventies, Giorgio remains fashion’s greatest tailor - his natty culotte style mini dresses in chiffon and silk were strikingly new, and thoroughly pretty. And, a foursome of black sequin cocktail dresses had elegance and sex appeal in equal measure.
Curiously, despite the program notes talking of natural tones, the hues that worked best were silvers and metals. Like the collection overall the palette had punch and pizzazz.
One sign that Armani is in a strong creative moment is when this, generally charming, designer turns crabbed.
Back stage post show he went on a short rant against an assembled pack of some 20 local journalists, on the grounds that they were overly obsessed "with trends that only interest people in fashion, not women worldwide."
And when one foreign scribe asked him innocently why he did not wear any of the jodhpurs that looked so great on the four guys in his own show, Armani growled, "I am a designer, not a model! I think I know what my own profession is, even if others don’t. Huh!"
