Armani Privé | Couture Fall 2011

For fall 2011 Giorgio Armani was inspired by far East. After he launched the Resort collection with a motto “Imperial China”, the Fall Haute Couture collection launched yesterday on July 5^th in Paris, was tribute to Japan.  With this Privé show, Armani wanted to show his support in a more personal way, with a very romantic line, geisha – influenced collection. The drama of the clothes—and their inspiration—literally came to a head with the origami architecture of Philip Treacy's "hats." They highlighted the structured nature of Armani's couture, which was as deliberate here as a black patent-leather bodice and a world apart from the fluidity of his ready-to-wear.

The cherry blossoms—were predictably transmuted in prints, and, equally predictably, there were oblique belts and origami like folds. But it felt like Armani had reflected on new Japan as much as old traditions, because there was a hint of Rei Kawakubo's original radicalism in the man-tailored pants, in the layered, elongated Edwardian line, in odd details like the double cuff on a jacket sleeve, and especially in all the asymmetry. One-armed jacket, the single floral-printed pannier that hung off a black bolero, or the diagonal slash that bisected a velvet dress to reveal a printed interior – look stunningly beautiful.

If I’d be a millionaire I would buy all this collection! This collection is so fantastic.

- Edisa.

 {source: vogue.com}