Armani decided to pay an unannounced visit to his clientele last week and bopped into the Soho Armani Exchange store during shopping hours, where he walked around and helped unsuspecting customers pick out clothes. Apparently one woman was waffling on a metallic puffy coat, but Armani gave it such a convincing endorsement t
hat she bought it, tore off the tags, and wore it right out of the store.Giorgio Armani has tapped Elisa Sednaoui to be the face of the label’s spring 2011 ad campaign, which will be shot by Nick Knight and hit magazines in February. Sednaoui replaces Edita Vilkeviciute,
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Armani Sunglaess No matter Armani sunglasses,or other products, they are all full of attractiveness.Shoppers at the Armani Exchange store in SoHo got a surprise this week when Giorgio Armani himself showed up. According to spies, the legendary designer walked around the store complimenting shoppers on their selections. When one customer seemed on the fence about buying a metallic puffer coat, Armani “gushed about the piece and made quite a convincing argument.” After getting Armani’s nod of approval, the shopper bought the coat and ripped off the tags so she could wear it out of the store.
Lea Michele attended Billboard’s Women In Music awards in New York last night, where she wore a strapless white Giorgio Armani dress with futuristic ruffles orbiting the skirt.
Armani Sunglaess AAA The stiff tiers look like they would be crushed easily, so we hope Michele didn’t have to do too much sitting that night. Among the most exquisite of artworks in the city of Florence are the frescoes by Benozzo Gozzoli that decorate the walls of the chapel in the Medici-Riccardi palazzo, a place of worship so tiny that no more than fifteen people are permitted to enter at any one time. Gozzoli’s purported subject matter is the Journey of the Magi: The three wise men, accompanied by scores of associates and retainers, process on horseback to pay homage to an unseen Jesus. But the actual subject of the frescoes is the glory of the Medici clan itself. Each figure on the walls has the face of this or that prince or nobleman, uncannily lifelike, gazing out at the onlooker. The chapel serves as a kind of fifteenth-century photograph album for the most influential family of the time, and even the Tuscan countryside—the dramatic, flowered hills through which the Magi ride—is depicted in glorious detail.
During the few days prior, the men’s collections had been taking place in Milan, but Armani had determined to show in Florence rather than at his Milan palazzo. So that morning, the fashion caravan—that odd assortment of journalists and store buyers who travel from capital to
capital, determining the rise and fall of the hipster pant or the patent-leather shoe—had climbed aboard trains or piled into rental cars and journeyed 200 miles south. Here they had witnessed not a mere catwalk show but a spectacular 90-minute-long performance and tribute to Armani created by the avant-garde director and choreographer Robert Wilson, who had created within the Stazione Leopolda, a vast, abandoned railway station, a series of surreal, beautiful tableaux, all peopled with models and dancers wearing Armani.
Gucci Jeans for Cheap There was a summer beach scene through which dancers dressed in the spring-summer 1997 collection wandered; a glamorous evening party in which the women wore gowns from Armani’s personal archive, which were in some cases as old as the bodies they hung from; a sculpture hall in which eight exquisitely muscled young men, barely dressed in swimwear, stood on podiums and affected the attitudes of sculptures, their hair whitened to connote marble, though it also bore a marked resemblance to Armani’s own stark-white coif.