Giorgio Armani's collection for next summer is a sea of sweetness, which after 20 years has returned to parade in the small theater in via Borgonuovo, transformed into an aquatic backdrop illuminated by the lights of the sunset.
A magic that unites the choice of the place and the clothes, and which has left more than one guest with tears in the eyes.
"Today we want sweetness, to be in love and for someone to fall in love with us - says Giorgio Armani at the end of the show - we want to recover lost relationships due to the world, which is heading towards a questionable situation. we have teeth, we have the earth: we try to save her and ourselves ". And you can do it starting with a smile, the same one that, unexpectedly, the models show off on the catwalk: "it was a good war - jokes Armani - girls when they are out are used to being harsh and severe, according to one school of these. recent years, drastic in saying that smiling is an old thing, while smiling pleases everyone ". And the songs that, after Leopardi's 'Infinity', accompany the catwalk, tear more than a smile,from Lucio Dalla to Loredana Bertè, all the classics of Italian song that talk about the sea and summer. "Finally the Italian song, I love these pieces and you had to see - he tells the press - how the girls moved while listening to these songs, with love and not hysteria". A choice that is also "a tribute to Italy, but I wouldn't want - he minimizes - to set myself up as the savior of the homeland. They remind me of 40 years ago, when I started and these songs accompanied my work: this set of things convinced me to tread a bit '. Of course, transforming the small theater in via Borgonuovo into a seabed "was a great effort, but the result is there: going down to this basement and finding such an atmosphere seemed to me an unexpected and magical thing".all the classics of Italian song that talk about the sea and summer. "Finally the Italian song, I love these pieces and you had to see - he tells the press - how the girls moved while listening to these songs, with love and not hysteria". A choice that is also "a tribute to Italy, but I wouldn't want - he minimizes - to set myself up as the savior of the homeland. They remind me of 40 years ago, when I started and these songs accompanied my work: this set of things convinced me to tread a bit '. Of course, transforming the small theater in via Borgonuovo into a seabed "was a great effort, but the result is there: going down to this basement and finding such an atmosphere seemed to me an unexpected and magical thing".all the classics of Italian song that talk about the sea and summer. "Finally the Italian song, I love these pieces and you had to see - he tells the press - how the girls moved while listening to these songs, with love and not hysteria". A choice that is also "a tribute to Italy, but I wouldn't want - he minimizes - to set myself up as the savior of the homeland. They remind me of 40 years ago, when I started and these songs accompanied my work: this set of things convinced me to tread a bit '. Of course, transforming the small theater in via Borgonuovo into a seabed "was a great effort, but the result is there: going down to this basement and finding such an atmosphere seemed to me an unexpected and magical thing".
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And
the dresses for next summer
are pure magic
: while everyone discovers their legs and stomach, Armani presents a collection that is a riot of sweetness and lightness.
The day is a marine symphony of
whites and blues, lit by shades of coral red
, with
collarless jackets closed with
enamel or soft and elongated
jewel-pins
combined with
trousers that are always fluid, almost floating
, like echoes of travel to distant countries. But they are just memories revisited in a metropolitan key, combined with crochet caps or scarves to cover the head and low and laced sandals. "Mixing suggestions - explains Armani - has always been part of my language: I pick up signs and colors everywhere, and then work in subtraction, purify, maintaining their echo. This collection is a métissage: a mixture of influences, of travel memories. The colors light up, the rigor softens. The times, in my opinion, require this ".
Everything becomes impalpable in the sequence of
pale grays, pale blues and greens,
for essential jackets and
long fluffy skirts.
And then in the evening you enter the dimension of dreams, with luminous and weightless dresses, layers of tulle in shades of pink or blue, which barely touch the body and light up with sparkles of crystals.
And to think that only the other day, when he was asked if he was happy to return to the show in the presence of the public, Armani replied that "the risk is that the applause will not arrive, to see people leaving".
This time, the applause came loud and clear, along with a few tears.