ITALY: DESIGNERS SILVIA TCHERASSI AND GIORGIO ARMANI SHOW OFF THEIR AUTUMN/WINTER COLLECTIONS

Record ID: 862036

  • Title: ITALY: DESIGNERS SILVIA TCHERASSI AND GIORGIO ARMANI SHOW OFF THEIR AUTUMN/WINTER COLLECTIONS
  • Date: 23rd February 2004
  • Summary: ( ** BEWARE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **) ARMANI GREETING AUDIENCE AT END OF FASHION SHOW
  • Embargoed: 9th March 2004 12:00
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  • Location: MILAN, ITALY
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  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: Business,Entertainment,Quirky,Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
  • Reuters ID: LVA8QCS4H3K150W9YGKV2V58DXRR
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  • Story Text: Colombian designer Silvia Tcherassi showed a more colourful and flesh-baring collection than is often found at Milan's autumn/winter fashion shows on Monday (February 23).
    If the dark winter days get you down, turn to Tcherassi next year for bright blue and aqua suits, purple quilted hot pants and red Coco Chanel knee-length skirts to cheer yourself up.
    Tcherassi gave a quirky take to winter wear with bright off-the-shoulder chiffon shirts more often seen on summer catwalks made only slightly warmer by a one-armed, shoulder-length puffa jacket in bright blue.
    For evening, Tcherassi followed fashion's greats, showing a long-sleeved carmine red dress that plunged in a V to below the breast bone and was slit high up the thigh.
    Meanwhile Giorgio Armani, the trusted designer of the rich and elegant, took a walk on the wild side at Milan fashion week on Monday, mixing shapes and styles into a winter collection called Eccentricity.
    The king of soft, smart suits said he hoped the collection of asymmetrical collars and satin skirts bushed out at the bottom over black tulle petticoats would make people think he had turned a page in the style book "Black is important because you can play so much on black, put any colour on top. You can sell it very easily. You might wear a colour once a week but you can wear black from morning to night, day in, day out," Armani told Reuters at the end of the show.
    So next year, individualists can break the Milanese trend for floor-skimming trousers and strut around in Armani's jersey pants that hung just above the ankle. Or try the narrow black trousers decorated with flaps at mini-skirt level.
    There were still plenty of the neat tops that made Armani's name but they were outnumbered by jackets that flounced out from a high waist like a triangular cape.
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