Tanother ends Milan Fashion Week. And as always, closing on a high note is the fashion show King Giorgio Armani. The stylist is the protagonist of day 5 of the MFWwith his collection Autumn-Winter 2024/2025.
Winter flowers. A programmatic title, a message of hope, seasoned with the grace of the Maison’s creations, applauded in the front row also by Cate Blanchett.
Winter Flowersthe new Armani creations
The show is opened by another woman, Gina Di Bernardo, Armani icon, timeless face of Aldo Fallai’s campaigns of the late 1980s (now on display at the Silos). A symbol of elegance ageless, which never fades. And in fact the new line for the next cold season revolves around the concept of lightness and tenacity, romance and class, elegance and obstinacy: perennial flowers that resist the passage of time.
A vintage touch is the backdrop to the collection, characterized by a typically Armaniana palette: the progression of beiges and grays is enlivened by tree-like prints and embroideries in shades of pink and turquoise; from indigo we turn towards night blue, the most “Armani” color there is. Bright, tactile, it rests on velvets and silks and illuminates soft trousers, tailored jackets and pajama sets.
Gina Di Bernardo at the Giorgio Armani FW2024/2025 fashion show (Photo: Spotlight Launchmetrics).
Oxymoron of style
THE Winter flowers which title the line punctuate, together with embroidered dragonflies, the series of releases, which culminates with long and precious dresses. Impalpable transparencies or solid bustiers with bell-shaped skirts, profiled with a myriad of stones that simulate a sky of stars. All to be combined with velvet ballet flats and flat brocade ankle boots. To blossom inside, even when it’s cold outside.
The finale of the Giorgio Armani FW2024/2025 fashion show (Photo: Spotlight Launchmetrics).
In defense of women. And fashion week
The post-show is also an opportunity to clarify some concepts. In the press conference that follows the show, Mr. Armani does not send word: as reported Corriere.it, «When I create my fashion I always think of women I can meet anywhere. I think of women consistent with their faces. We continue to accept everyone, but I’m not there. I’m tired of seeing women “in their underwear”, transformed into an object of desire. And if there are 50 percent of men who love them this way, there are 50 who say no.”
And it shows it too dissatisfied with a fashion week in Milan that was too frenetic and concentratedacting as spokesperson for a dissatisfaction that had already emerged during the press conference at the opening of Milano Moda Donna.
The women of day 5, from Hui to Feben to Chiara Boni
In any case, we need to move forward, each in our own way. And so on day 5, as a corollary to King George’s fashion show, women parade who act as spokespersons for different meanings. From China, Hui by Hui Zhu Zhao, the lady of Chinese fashion who produces her creations in Italy and for years has chosen Milan to present her collection, this time in the name of Panda patches and kimonos reinterpreted in a Western key.
Hui’s oriental elegance FW2024/2025 (Photo: Spotlight Launchmetrics).
The other two women, all Italian, protagonists of day 5: Luisa Spagnoli And Chiara Boni The Petite Robe. The first with the elegance of yesteryear inspired by the Deauville coast, with exits reminiscent of Anouk Aimée’s looks in the film A man and a woman, directed by Claude Lelouch in 1966 and set in these very places. For the Florentine designer, however, it is time to London callingwith the top Anna Cleveland which opens and closes the catwalk dotted with totally Brit outfits.
Dolce&Gabbana they continue, for their part, to support young people: this time it is the turn of Feben, Ethiopian designer raised in Sweden and based in London. The stages of the project Supported by Dolce&Gabbana they continue with creations in the name of inclusiveness and sustainability, interpreted on the catwalk by the top Ashley Graham.
A look from Feben FW2024/2025 (Photo: Spotlight Launchmetrics).
The fashion shows of the Milan Fashion Week Autumn-Winter 2024/2025 close Aniye Records And Rave Review: on the one hand the totally sexy energy of a self-confident woman, on the other the Nordic patchworks designed by Josephine Bergqvist and Livia Schück. To each his own path…
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