Milan – Giorgio Armani, beside being Italy's most famous designer, is also the peninsula's greatest tailor, and he reminded his fans of precisely that with some nattily cut new jackets in his latest signature show, presented Tuesday, June 21, in Milan.
However, while his newly deconstructed jackets - bereft of even the slightest shoulder padding - had a swell new silhouette, his biggest innovation this season was the way he used geometric graphics and zig zags to subtly alter the look of much of this collection.
Armani printed window panes and graphic patterns on nylon silk raincoats, sleek shirts and neat bomber jackets, all of which looked elegant, yet the right side of edgy.
But his classiest moments were his new shortened, double-breasted jackets, cut above the hip and finished with trim trousers, shaped lower in the crotch and finished just above the ankle, the new cut off point throughout this season in Milan.
"It's true that this is a particularly short double breasted. It really is a new jacket, but not the first time I tried deconstruction. My first deconstructed jacket, an empty shouldered look, was in back 1972," said Armani.
In a sign that many of the major Italian houses, are rebounding form the recession, Armani even sent out a chocolate colored crocodile baseball jacket, so supple it felt like as if made of lambskin, which was faintly scary in terms of price. Reportedly, it will retail for around $25,000.
