MILAN -- After stunning the fashion elite with his spectacular show-with-concert on Thursday, Giorgio Armani returned on Sunday and gave a "shape to color" in a new collection of ethereal designs in pastel and silver colored satins.
"Liquid and lightness are given by a rarefied range of colours. It's all very subtle, just like the color palette, which gives a shape to the clothes," designer Giorgio Armani told reporters at the end of his show.
But unlike past designs, Armani used a palette of silver, grey, pastels and soft blues, with touches of darker blue and bright pink making only a brief appearance on the runway.
"Emotions turn into colors, colors become shapes," read a style note.
"The woman I portrayed is one that wants to be noticed, she doesn't slip away dressed like a man with a pencil stuck in her ruffled hair. She wants to be stunning," Armani added.
Designs were clean and light, with elongated silhouettes, giving a delicate, almost celestial appearance to the models.
The show opened with delicate sheer flowing skirts matched with soft satin jackets and worn with stiletto heel sandals.
Satin, in trousers, skirts as well as sophisticated jackets, reigned on the catwalk, giving a fluid and softly draping flow to the collection.
Armani said that he added a touch of shine and glimmer to his clothes and accessories, as women like to "play" with it.
Models in sophisticated suits wore big shiny earrings, elaborate necklaces and wide-brimmed hats. Tiny bags were tied to the wrist, small rucksacks were slung onto backs and PVC shopper bags were held in models' hands.
Organza was layered on trousers and skirts, adding light as well as movement, and was also worn on capes.
The 84-year old Italian designer had already entertained the Milan Fashion Week crowd on Thursday with his Emporio Armani show, held in an airport and ending with a Robbie Williams concert and described by all as the must-see event of the week.
Armani also said that the Italian fashion industry had to "defend itself," in response to a recent article by the New York Times on workers in the southern region of Puglia being exploited and underpaid by certain fashion houses.
"There is always an American attack (during Milan fashion week). It seems to me that in the last years the American (fashion) industry hasn't done much...," Armani said, dismissing the issue.
Milan Fashion Week ends on Monday, with a show by Japanese designer Atsushi Nakashima. Dolce & Gabbana is expected to show later on Sunday.
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MILAN -- Iconic supermodel Naomi Campbell and Italian star Monica Bellucci on Saturday injected Hollywood-octane oomph in to the second day of Milan men's fashion week, sporting sizzling men's suits teamed with skyscraper stilettos for Dolce & Gabbana.
With an over-the-top gilt and baroque decor glittering in the background, the 48-year-old Campbell was a vision from top to bottom from her elegant black hat with a white band to her sparkling silver heels.
She wore a classic pinstripe suit with a carefully mismatched bow tie adorning her crisp white shirt.
The catwalk celebrated love in all shapes and sizes -- heterosexual, gay, couples with children, cougars and sugar daddies -- sending women and men, women and women, men and men, women and toy boys and older men and their trophy conquests down the ramp in eye-popping colours screaming Florida.
Bellucci showed off a three-piece coal black suit with a wide lapel, teetering on vertiginous heels with her hands in her pockets.
The younger models were heartthrobs of the Millennials -- a target group for the house -- including actor Cameron Dallas, Chinese singer and actor Karry Wang and Kailand Wander, the son of US music legend Stevie Wonder.
Apart from Campbell and Bellucci's suits, the other offerings bore the quirky, sassy D&G stamp: suits encrusted with precious stones or layered with dazzling silver and gold embroidery that the maison put down to a "Gothic inspiration."
Snakes motifs and neon shades
Versace also opted for full-blast -- but far younger -- star power, leading with current top model Bella Hadid. Both the boys and girls wore outfits bearing the brand's trademark snake motif, as well as head-to-toe fluorescent green and pink combinations.
Trousers were in plaid and shorts were both baggy or tight and some were asymmetrical. There were letter box red cardigans emblazoned with a crown and Donatella Versace said the collection catered to three kinds of men: a "street style" for stars, another for dandies and a third for "leaders."
"The Versace man is not ordinary, he is watched and spoken of," she said.
Milan will showcase 28 ready-to-wear collections to reveal the Spring-Summer 2019 lines.
Among the major Italian names showing between now and Monday are Versace, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada and Giorgio Armani.
The overseas fashion houses taking part include Britain's Stella McCartney, Canada's Dsquared2 and Germany's Philipp Plein.
McCartney is returning to Milan after a four-year absence and will close the fashion week on Monday evening.
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MILAN -- Designers to the stars Dolce & Gabbana opened the gates of fashion heaven on Sunday in a spectacular catwalk show featuring drones, one of the last events of Milan's popular fashion week.
Church chants welcomed guests with the gates of heaven used as a background to the catwalk. "Fashion Devotion" read a golden sign over golden gates and a flurry of angels and clouds.
At the show's start, bells chimed, the gates opened and drones flew out, carrying the brand's handbags down the catwalk.
In previous shows the famous designer duo had asked young so-called influencers to showcase their designs, turning to bloggers and Instagrammers who have millions of followers and are seen as style icons by their fans. But this time Dolce & Gabbana returned to professional models.
The collection, rich and opulent as usual by Dolce & Gabbana, featured church-influenced designs such as a big black cape draped over a white t-shirt, a priest collar combined with an elegant damasked tuxedo and a cassock-looking dress with red finishes paired with high-heeled red sandals.
Other references to heaven included cartoon-esque angels wearing sunglasses, which were on skirts and on a ornate bronze bomber jacket, with wings coming out of the model's back.
"Fashion sinner," "D&G devotion" and "Santa moda ora pro nobis" – Holy fashion pray for us - read some of the clothes, with reference to prayers.
The fall-winter 2018/19 collection also intertwined all of the fashion house's iconic traits such as black lace, tight-fitting black dresses, veils, references to Italy's southern traditions and costumes as well as flowers.
Other designs were bright and glittered and paired with exuberant accessories, such as a big pink wig, glass frames with cartoon exclamations and neon green fur stilettos.
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