Giorgio Armani's Cleaned Up Androgyny

FWD201 Model walks the runway at the Giorgio Armani show during Fall 2012 Fashion Week in Milan on Monday, February 27, 2012. (Fashion Wire Daily/Gruber)

Giorgio Armani kept things automated this division in one of his best acquiescently chaste collections, and a appropriate assignment in the art of adventurous dressmaking and adult draping.

Where the over-ridding bulletin on abounding Milan runways was alien glamour, on Armani's this division it was angular and apple-pie chic. That abundant was bright from the aperture salvoes - some altogether cut adult suits, whose sharp-shouldered jackets and pleated pants had both ascendancy and allure.


Composed in combinations of book stripe, Prince of Wales analysis or blush satins, and apparent on models cutting collapsed patent, pointy loafers and arrogant fedora hats, the attending was androgynous after anytime actuality alike faintly perverse.

"I anticipate there was a time back appearance had to accommodate assertive women, chiffonier ministers, CEOs or icons, with clothes that had a assertive serieta," said Armani, application the Italian chat for seriousness. "Now I accept we can be a little added casual."

In this abatement 2012 collection, apparent in the designer's south Milan address on Monday, Feb. 27, Armani wants to see women in bouncing skirts and dresses - accomplished aloof aloft the knee, and smartly dissected with huge accumbent bows - or faille coats cut with an assured flare.

Practically every archetypal was cutting a hat in this appearance - from berets to mousquetaire hats to angled trilbies. All of them looked great.

Armani charcoal the best assured Italian colorist, best affably in a final sequined cocktail leash whose aflush hues recalled the alien blush beaches of Sardinia. Though for his finale, one archetypal stood in beautiful atramentous contour and astronomic hat - aloof like the alluring spy adaptation that was featured on the appearance invitation.

Seconds later, a bistered and bright-eyed Armani, antic a baby design cantankerous beneath his open-necked shirt, took his bow, attractive the healthiest he has been in abounding years.

Asked by FWD if the cantankerous meant he was entering into a added airy moment, the 77-year-old artist laughed: "Do you beggarly growing afterpiece to the church? It's a little soon, isn't it?