Giorgio Armani wows Milan with superhero display

Fashion's godfather Giorgio Armani has kicked off Milan Fashion Week, third stop after New York and London on the tour of next season's international designer shows. Armani's more youthful label, Emporio Armani, paired softly tailored jackets with sleek city short suits in beige and grey - sensible styles seemingly in keeping with the current global financial chaos raging beyond the catwalks. But the show also featured its fair share of flesh - from see-through chiffon evening wear, low-cut jackets and midriff-baring skirts.
 
Armani, whose trademark is sleek and simple cuts, appears to have been influenced by his participation earlier this year in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's SuperHeroes exhibition, notes Hilary Alexander in the Daily Telegraph. "It can only have been Armani's involvement... which led him to layer lemon and aquamarine animal-print boxer shorts OVER the models’ grey trousers in the manner of Superman. The 'Lois Lane' in me much preferred the floating, almost flying delicacy of the strapless, chiffon long dresses embroidered with multi-coloured butterflies, grasshoppers and lady-birds."
 
Armani co-chaired the Met event with American Vogue editor Anna Wintour, despite an uncomfortable relationship between the two after the Italian designer said he couldn't understand why so many people disliked her. Yesterday the Vogue editor did not appear to be at his show.

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