Giorgio Armani's newest assortment plumbs roots of 50-year-old model in intimate salon setting

MILAN (AP) — Giorgio Armani created an intimate salon for the style crowd to get a close-up view Sunday of the most recent Milan runway assortment from his 50-year-old signature model, an extravaganza of textures, craftsmanship, and the designer’s trademark magnificence.

Particular visitors

Actor Lily James, ballet dancer Maria Bogdanovich and mannequin Ana Beatriz Barros had been among the many visitors who sat cozily on curving sofas for the back-to-back reveals. Armani additionally invited Italian senator-for-life Liliana Segre, a Holocaust survivor, and figures from Milan’s cultural establishments.

‘Roots’ assortment

The opening look encapsulated the sensorial complexity of the fall-winter 2025-26 womenswear assortment, titled “Roots.” A swirl of lush fake fur framed the face, whereas liquidy silken trousers caught the sunshine, and a leather-trimmed tweed jacket pulled all of it collectively.

Positive-footed flat booties had been the footwear of the season—some that includes radiant strips of leather-based, others with mild folds of velvet.

Harmonizing seems to be

Every ensemble was an ideal mixture of soothing neutrals, harmonizing seemingly contrasting supplies. Trousers had been both unfastened and pleated on the entrance or gathered loosely like jodhpurs, because the designer drew inspiration from the East. Jacket had been comprised of contrasting jacquards or delicate quilting.

Feather-light, typically sheer night put on sparkled with beading sometimes patterned like geodes. Sculpted bodices added a couture factor, standing away from the physique.

“For Giorgio Armani, each collection is a return to his roots, reaffirmation of an authentic style that evolves, drawing on itself, while remaining firmly anchored in reality,” the present notes mentioned.

Closing bow

Armani, 90, was escorted by two glittering fashions as he took his last bow. As has been customary, Armani’s was the final main runway present of Milan Vogue Week earlier than the group decamped to proceed womenswear trend previews in Paris.