Armani Privé / Spring 2012 Couture
Is there really a need for haute couture? Well, let’s put it this way: If it’s about event-dressing (only part of the picture, but a huge one these days), the answer is yes. This year, we have already born witness to the People’s Choice Awards, the Critics’ Choice Awards, and the Golden Globes. Then, in the next few weeks, there’s the SAG Awards, the Berlin Film Festival, and the César Awards, adding up to seven major dress-seeking occasions for actresses (and their strung-out stylists) even before we get to the big one on February 26, the Academy Awards. Not all of those dresses will be chosen or adapted from the haute couture shows, of course—they are the crème de la crème—but, then again, a good sprinkling will be. And this sharpens the relevance of the couture collections which are about to commence this week—at least for anyone who fancies beating her friends at the annual name-the-dress competition while watching the Oscar red-carpet arrivals.
All of the above was the subject of a side-conversation amongst staff at the Armani Privé headquarters as Giorgio Armani (the premier Hollywood awards-show dresser since the 1980s) was concluding fittings for his show on Tuesday. As a point of style, he placed a pagoda-shouldered jacket over the back of a model wearing a serpentine chartreuse-pailletted dress. An aspect of tailoring over dresses or skirts is, of course, an emerging trend. “It looks more casual,” said Mr. Armani. Look more closely, however, and it’s possible to deduce from the dramatic slash in the bodice of the dress that the artistic content of the collection is about the way snakes shed their skins. “It’s a metamorphosis,” he said. “She starts as one thing and ends as another.”
All of the above was the subject of a side-conversation amongst staff at the Armani Privé headquarters as Giorgio Armani (the premier Hollywood awards-show dresser since the 1980s) was concluding fittings for his show on Tuesday. As a point of style, he placed a pagoda-shouldered jacket over the back of a model wearing a serpentine chartreuse-pailletted dress. An aspect of tailoring over dresses or skirts is, of course, an emerging trend. “It looks more casual,” said Mr. Armani. Look more closely, however, and it’s possible to deduce from the dramatic slash in the bodice of the dress that the artistic content of the collection is about the way snakes shed their skins. “It’s a metamorphosis,” he said. “She starts as one thing and ends as another.”
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