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Giorgio Armani Men’s Collection Spring Summer 2006
Armani describes its Men's Spring Summer 2006 collection as follows: MANIA – AN OBSESSIVE IDEA, A FIXATION, AN UNUSUAL PATTERN OF BEHAVIOUR, AS IN SOMEONE “HAS A MANIA FOR TIDINESS”. BY EXTENSION, PASSION, TASTE, EXCESSIVE ATTENTION TO DETAIL (AS DEFINED IN THE DICTIONARY).
ARMANIA – THE QUINTESSENTIAL STYLE AND PHILOSOPHY OF ARMANI. BY EXTENSION, THE PASSION TO WEAR ARMANI.
IN TERMS OF CONCEPTS AND CLOTHES, THIS COLLECTION RETAINS THE ARMANI LOOK, AS WE HAVE LEARNT TO RECOGNISE IT IN THE PAST – DECONSTRUCTED, FREE, SENSUAL, ANATOMICALLY PERFECT TO EMPHASISE THE BODY’S INNATE SUPPLENESS – BUT WITH NEW PROPOSALS. THE FOCUS IS THE RE-DEFINED JACKET. SHORTER ON THE HIPS TO ELONGATE THE FIGURE, WITH NATURAL OR SADDLE SHOULDERS AND PEAK LAPELS TO EMPHASISE THE PHYSICALITY OF THE ULTRA-SLIM LINE, FASTENED BY A SINGLE BUTTON. FRESH AND FLUID, THIS FEATHERWEIGHT JACKET IS ALTERNATED WITH A SOFT AND FITTED DOUBLE-BREASTED VERSION, WORN WITH A TOUCH OF NONCHALANCE. IN SPORTS WEAR THE JACKET RECURS AS A CABAN OR THE MOST CASUAL OF BLOUSONS.
INNOVATIVE, LIGHT AND AIRY, A SUPERIOR NEW QUALITY OF JERSEY IS THE CHOSEN FABRIC FOR SHIRTS – IN BLUE AND WHITE STRIPES ASSOCIATED WITH THE FINEST POPLIN – AND TIES. A TRUE CLASSIC OF THE ARMANI REVOLUTION, THE COLLARLESS SHIRT, FREE AND DECONSTRUCTED. PERFECT, WHEN FASTENED WITH A ZIP AND WORN WITH A METICULOUSLY CUT FORMAL SUIT. AMONG THE ICONIC ARMANI FABRICS: MICRO WEAVES, PRINCE OF WALES CHECKS, SOMETIMES OBVIOUS, SOMETIMES IN A HAZY MIX OF LINEN AND SILK FOR EXTRA RADIANCE, THE VERY LIGHTEST WOOLLEN YARNS. ALWAYS PRESENTED IN FRESH AND UNEXPECTED SHADES, GOLDEN GREY, SMOKY GREEN GREY, MINERAL HUES BETWEEN BEIGE AND GREY – CULMINATING IN A DEEP BURGUNDY THAT BRINGS A DEEP GLOW TO THE SPORTS WEAR, WITH A SPLASH OF LIGHT LILAC EVOKING A TOUCH OF THE EIGHTIES.
SIGNIFICANTLY THE CASUAL WEAR FEATURES FRESH SEERSUCKER IN GARMENT DYED BURGUNDY; SUITS IN DOUBLE WEAVE, LEATHER IN NATURAL COLOURS. A NOTABLE EXCEPTION, THE BLOUSON IN REDUCED PROPORTIONS, CLOSE FITTING, IN NAPPA LEATHER WITH ROUGH, RUSTIC LINEN INSERTS AND CONTRAST SEAMS AS SEEN IN THE KNITWEAR, A WARDROBE CROSSOVER THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN INTEGRAL TO THE ARMANI STYLE. IN THIS CONTINUOUS INTERPLAY AND EXCHANGE OF GENRES, A RANGE OF TEN JERSEY JACKETS AND STRETCH CABANS LEADS INTO A SHOW OF SENSUAL KNITWEAR. CRAFTED IN THE SOFTEST YARNS, OFFERING THE TACTILE COMFORT OF JACQUARD JERSEY, AND WITH THE SPLENDID ADDITION OF A MACRAMÉ MEDALLION, ALSO REPRISED ON THE JACKET.
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Giorgio Armani Women’s Collection Spring Summer 2006
Dedicated to the woman of today: with her glamour, her desire to focus on life’s essentials, her taste for anachronisms. As well as the independence of spirit that prompts her to personalise the fashion that she loves to wear, liking to belong to a group while always projecting her own distinctive look. Here lies the raison d’être of that mixture of styles that constitutes Armani style timeless clothes reinterpreted in the language of our time. Today.
The seductive appeal of contrasts characterises the collection in which short jackets featuring clearly defined small shoulders are teamed with skirts in fluid lines and flowing fabrics (crêpe, organza, satin). The trousers also glide gracefully, sometimes cut on the bias to underline the impeccable tailoring.
A variety of skirts: an inverted tulip with an ethnic accent, wraps like sarongs, in a graduated length that cover the knee at the front and cascading at the back. To emphasise this sense of movement special attention is paid to the edging, pleats and bias.
As if in a new Garden of Eden, the evening gowns are printed with floral motifs and then embroidered, while bird of paradise style brooches perch on the almost molten bodices of the sophisticated jersey dresses. Hats like bouffant hairstyles, stiff black pagodas, or full blown roses, concentrating attention on the face. Like a photographic close up, the eye is drawn to the positive line of the shoulders, emphasised by the jacket or set in relief by the high broad collar of the blouses, falling nonchalantly on the décolleté. The delicate colour palette includes faded shades of greige, putty and cinnamon, with graphic prints, and a range of tropical lagoon jade blues with flashes of Armani red.
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