Giorgio Armani Spring / Summer 2009
@ 9:13 pm June 24, 2008Filed under: News
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MILAN, Jun 24, 2008 / FW/ — Selected photos from the Giorgio Armani Spring / Summer 2009 menswear show.
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(Photos by Lisa Helm)
News Briefs: Giorgio Armani Honored; Jimmy Choo Launches Eyewear Line, Stella McCartney Online
@ 4:45 pm April 2, 2008Filed under: News
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LOS ANGELES, Apr 2, 2008 / FW/ — Giorgio Armani has been named the first ever recipient of the Couture Council Award for Global Fashion Leadership. Given by the Couture Council of The Museum at FIT, Dr. Joyce F. Brown, FIT President will present the award to the Italian design maestro on May 6.
Just in time for summer, Jimmy Choo is launching a full sunglass and eyewear collection in collaboration with Safilo Group. With a definite 1970s and 1980s vibe, it has a retro-modern feel that everyone – from glitterati like Sharon Stone, J.Lo and Jessica Alba to the girl next-door love. Expect the line to be as popular as the shoes.
Now, you can buy Stella McCartney online as the London-based designer forays on e-commerce. Currently only available in the U.S. for sales and delivery, it will expand to the U.K. in the fall. To celebrate the launch, each customer who registers on the site enters to win a new Appaloosa bag filled with products.
It’s As Good As It Gets at Giorgio Armani, Neil Barrett & Moschino
@ 1:17 am January 16, 2008Filed under: Milan, Runway Shows
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MILAN, Jan 16, 2008 / FW/ — As already been mentioned here before, the focal point of the Fall 2008 Milan season is MAN and on the spearhead of this movement are Giorgio Armani, Neil Barrett and Moschino whose noble treatment of classical silhouettes are as good as it gets.
At Moschino, the treatment is mischievous and lighthearted, yet beneath the irreverence, Rossella Jardini had kept the rules of classic gentlemanly dressing with the black 3-piece suits and bowties, blouson cardigans worn on top of iridescent yet traditional shirt, gray traveling cape played backdrop on tiny red argyle knitted vest.
It’s retro-futuristic, with the chic evening suits that were proposed from the traditional sober stripes to the more daring shimmering shades. Purple cummerbunds, black & white wingtip shoes, fuchsia or purple laced footwear, Jardini’s vision of the 21st century man is a chip of the old “gentleman” block with just the right amount of James Dean’s rebelliousness to make him very interesting.
Neil Barrett, who just signed a partnership agreement with PMD Japan to distribute his label in the Far East, did what he does best – sharply tailored suits and pants with just sufficient amount of some military element to make them classical, then added zips and buttons plus the patent leather laced-up combat boots giving the collection an edgy appeal.
Using black & white as the main color palette, Barrett cut the trousers slim, and sometimes gave it an extra inch at the hem to get a ‘wrinkled’ effect. Suit jackets with double pockets and its matching vest were paired with low-rise trousers that featured zipped pockets. The Neil Barrett gent is not a video game hero, yet somehow, we all know that he plays the very popular Halo.
Once again, this return to sensible dressing, without the trappings of ‘Queer Eye for a Straight Guy’, Giorgio Armani is the true standard… AH-GAIN, as Homer Simpson would say.
A man in gloves and hat, aristocratic and refined, it was as if we are seeing Giorgio Armani for the first time once more, when Richard Gere was the ‘American Gigolo’. But that was at 27 years ago, ergo, the look had been updated. Now, there are velvet trousers and iridescent jackets, but the patrician qualities remain.
Jackets with rounded shoulders that caress the torso, trousers that draped flawlessly as they were generously cut. Classic tuxedos and bowties cut a sharp figure. Cardigans with wide lapels over knitted pullovers, anoraks and fur lined coats, long scarves worn as cravats, there is an air of regality around the Giorgio Armani gent.
And somehow, the little princess in every girl knows that she does not have to kiss a lot of frogs to meet her Prince because he is standing in front of her wearing Giorgio Armani.
Milan Menswear Runway Report: Touchy, Feely, Happy at Missoni, Emporio Armani & Byblos
@ 12:53 pm January 15, 2008Filed under: Milan, Runway Shows
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MILAN, Jan 15, 2008 / FW/ — The headline news might be gloomy, but Missoni, Emporio Armani and Byblos want us to be optimistic sending collections that are happy and touchy-feely. Because, isn’t it what is fashion (or dressing in this context) all about – to make us feel good about ourselves, an instant morale booster? For Fall 2008, Missoni, Emporio & Byblos share the same mantra – ‘Look good, feel good!’
Among the three, Manuel Facchini at Byblos pushed this thought to the limits sending roller skaters with all of them smiling, showing the audience that they are having a good time.
Bright colors and bold graphical prints adorned the sweaters and pullovers. Cardigans cum hoodies, quilted ski jackets and zipped bomber jackets adorned with colorful stripes at the plackets, Facchini did not miss a beat in dressing up these athletic, sports-loving young men. The must-have accessory is the graphical leg warmers worn on top of runners and Converse-style shoes.
Missoni took another route on optimism. If Byblos is about sportive young men, Missoni is about the intellectuals, perhaps a few years older or on the same age group as Fachinni’s lads.
Focusing on the cardigan this season, Angela Missoni preached ease of dressing, while keeping the grammar of the traditional Ivy Leaguer’s effortless luxury. Peach, cream and camel dominated the color palette as seen on the cardigans, sweaters and pullovers. These young men might not be doing extreme sports, but they are still physically active, preferring the civility of the tennis and pelota courts instead of the neck breaking speed of snowboarding.
Surprisingly enough, though Giorgio Armani is a few decades older than both Angela Missoni and Manuel Facchini, it was the Italian design maestro who provided the sum total of optimism in his Emporio Armani collection.
Ski outfits and mountaineering clothes in black & white tell of a life outdoors shared with your significant other, as proclaimed by male and female models walking hand-in-hand on the runway. They live active lives, sharing après ski while on vacation, and they still enjoy the active nightlife that the city offers.
For Missoni, Emporio Armani and Byblos, life should be lived, not observed! And though Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond had said, ‘You only live twice’, truth is that we only LIVE ONCE.
Cell Phones: The Latest Fashion Arena
@ 1:17 am January 1, 2008Filed under: Fashion Trends, News
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DALLAS, Jan 1, 2008 / FW/ — First, it was Dolce & Gabbana, followed closely by Prada and Giorgio Armani. And now, Dior and Swarovski had announced that they are joining the mobile phone arena with the launch of new luxury handsets this year.
Meanwhile, Tag Heur, Dior’s sister company (both are owned by LVHM), has also announced that they will be launching a Tag Heur branded mobile phone, the first watchmaker to do so.
American designers and celebrities are not immune to the wireless lure either. In fact, Anna Sui and Baby Phat by Kimora Lee Simmons were launched long before Dolce & Gabbana. Among the celebrities, Paris Hilton had her own cell phone brand also, before the European design houses entered the arena.
As it has been said before, fashion makes strange bedfellows, and right now, it seems that the Telecom Corridor and fashion designers are a match made in heaven. It’s a combination of form and function, that’s what we get when a designer makes a ‘skin’ for a mobile phone.
Recognizable names on a highly trusted technological brand, what more can a consumer ask for? The devil wears Prada while holding a Prada mobile phone in one hand.
The return of investment is good also. According to the article Dior and Swarovski to launch fashion phone, “despite steep initial price tags, fashion-branded phones are proving popular. Prada has sold around 500,000 of its LG phone since its launch last spring, while D&G’s limited edition gold MotoRAZR V3i phone for Motorola, which cost around £275, clocked up sales of $256m (£128m) in 12 months, or around 465,000 phones.”
With these figures, it can easily be concluded that the Telecom Corridor and luxury fashion houses have a symbiotic relationship.