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January 6, 2006
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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