January 28, 2015 |
Armani was all about bamboo. And no, that’s not a reference to the model’s lithe limbs. No, the largest member of the grass family appeared on the gowns, in prints of the plant, in the pleats and plisses replicating the sight of the plant en masse, in the vertical stripes and in the colour palette of brown-yellows, green-yellows and green. The bamboo’s homeland – the Far East (if I’ve got my botany correct) – was also referenced, in the gazar jackets, in the obi belts, in the hakama-like culottes and, more generally, in the silhouettes. The Armani was, despite what I said earlier, lithe like bamboo. As she walked down the catwalk, she cut a supple and graceful silhouette. Graceful, like an elegant empress.
Photographer: Jason Lloyd-Evans
By Ted Stansfield
