Giorgio Armani unveils late designer’s final assortment

The Italian vogue home unveils the final assortment personally labored on by its late designer and founder

MILAN, Italy – Italian vogue home Giorgio Armani unveiled on Sunday, September 28, the final assortment personally labored on by its late designer and founder, at Brera artwork museum within the coronary heart of Milan.

Armani, recognized within the vogue world as “King Giorgio,” handed away earlier this month on the age of 91.

The present, conceived to rejoice the fiftieth anniversary of the style home, was a tribute to the late designer.

The occasion drew a number of celebrities together with actors Richard Gere and Cate Blanchett and was held within the cloister of the Brera artwork museum, adorned with lanterns for the event.

Fashions walked below the porticoes in fluid, light-weight outfits, accompanied by stay piano music carried out by Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi.

The gathering, that includes a colour palette that ranged from gray to deep blue to darkish inexperienced, was titled “Pantelleria, Milan,” referencing two locations expensive to the designer.

“This assortment, the final Giorgio Armani labored on personally, is in some methods a testomony to model and the shut of a cycle, in order that new ones could start,” the model mentioned within the press notes.

The present concluded with a solo stroll by Agnese Zogla, one of many designer’s favorite fashions, who wore a sublime blue robe.

On the finish of the catwalk, Armani’s niece Silvana and the designer’s life and enterprise companion Leo Dell’Orco – respectively head of design for the ladies’s and males’s collections – got here out to greet the viewers and had been met with prolonged applause.

“I’m… humbled that we had been invited to return again to Milano to rejoice his excellency,” mentioned director Spike Lee upon coming into the present.

“Aside from being an unbelievable designer, he was a humanitarian. He was an unbelievable philanthropist,” mentioned Blanchett.

Giorgio Armani’s catwalk present closed Milan Trend Week, with fashionistas now heading to Paris for the subsequent spherical of reveals. – Rappler.com