Iconoclasm is seldom the path to major power and immeasurable wealth. But boy, has it worked for Giorgio Armani. He is a rare breed of establishment lord who gives not a whit about the norms and conventions in place elsewhere. He does what he wants and for fall, what he wanted to do was, well, everything.
A line from Armani’s program notes read “Variety as a form of contemporary consistency.” That’s Italian for cornucopia of crazy. There was so much going on in this show it left your head spinning, sometimes because of the sheer volume of thoughts zipping past and because sometimes those thoughts left you confused. This approach stood in contrast to Armani’s spring collection, which was hyper focused to lovely effect.
Armani opened simply enough, with short jackets over front-draped pants and a pair of good-looking coats, tucked through the torso and released into an easy silhouette. Then he got rolling with the diversity angle – jackets of numerous varieties and pants, pants, pants. Wide pants, lean pants, pants that were really four billowing panels worn over tights, and pants that were really hilarious (elegant black pleat-paneled skirt in front attached to fanny-hugging pants in back, bright red, no
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