22 September 2024 |
Like a balancing act between masculine and feminine dress codes, the SS25 Emporio Armani show proved that anybody can wear a suit. Key to the collection, Mr Armani dressed his girls in soft men’s blazers with satin trousers, sleek ties and square-toe ballet flats serving up an elegant expression of rebellious style. They also wore riding breeches, elongated skirts and airy summer dresses, sometimes sculpted by wrap-around sashes, and paper-bag trousers in watercolour-like prints, often paired with crochet and knit flat caps or Hepburn-esque wide-brimmed hats. Jackets were soft and free-falling. Blousons, parkas and trench coats finished off the looks.
Menswear, on the other hand, tapped into its feminine side, with suits cinched in at the waist with braided belts and slouchy sets with lovely fabric flowers sewn onto lapels like brooches.
For both, loose white shirting was underscored by boldly embroidered trousers, while many of the ensembles were crafted using palpably textural materials. Standouts included a lavender and grass green men’s shirt that swirled with bleeding colours, iridescent turquoise cut-out dresses and the sequinned ensembles that closed out the show.
Followed by a fabulous afterparty celebrating the official reopening of the iconic Emporio Armani flagship on Via Manzoni, 31, after undergoing renovations, things were tied up nicely with an all-things-Armanian bow.
Photography courtesy of Emporio Armani.
