At Giorgio Armani, a concept collection. Based around a film made with Paolo Sorrentino about the southern beaches of Italy, photo prints of their sand dunes and strata featured on silk faille dresses and skirts.
They were evoked in texture too, in heavy linen swing jackets and tunics worn with sheer and silk trousers that were cropped at the ankle with slit sides, their fluidity meant to replicate the sea's shimmer.
There were sportier pieces too, although they were every bit as light and breezy. A tawny anorak was worn with a fawn silk, cowl-necked tunic. Such is Armani's power with those signature deconstructed seams, which give his tailoring a certain loucheness, that even the performancewear end of the scale had elegance to it.
Sand is often a sort of minimalist code for neutral, but Armani gave it character in this collection, as well as movement and a certain restrained vitality.
