MILAN — Giorgio Armani may have been credited with inventing the greige color, but there’s a new shade associated with the designer: an Armani nuance gold.
As part of his first high jewelry collection under Armani’s namesake brand, the new 18-karat alloy is neither yellow nor pink, but a blend of the two. The unveiling of the line was scheduled on Thursday to coincide with the designer’s first pre-fall runway show in Milan and a new exhibition at the Armani/Silos displaying almost 800 accessories created by him.
“Here you see 40 years of hard work, designed way before there even was a boom of accessories, but all this has often been ignored by the press, focused more on my clothes,” said Armani, who approached the accessories category at the end of the Eighties, in a reverse process to that of many who moved from leather goods to clothing. The designer admitted it was a personal issue, and when he was asked why he was so adamant about playing up the accessories, he responded: “ I want to, I feel the need to do so.”
Armani took the time to walk through the exhibition, called “Accents of Style,” which is not chronological, as the
As part of his first high jewelry collection under Armani’s namesake brand, the new 18-karat alloy is neither yellow nor pink, but a blend of the two. The unveiling of the line was scheduled on Thursday to coincide with the designer’s first pre-fall runway show in Milan and a new exhibition at the Armani/Silos displaying almost 800 accessories created by him.
“Here you see 40 years of hard work, designed way before there even was a boom of accessories, but all this has often been ignored by the press, focused more on my clothes,” said Armani, who approached the accessories category at the end of the Eighties, in a reverse process to that of many who moved from leather goods to clothing. The designer admitted it was a personal issue, and when he was asked why he was so adamant about playing up the accessories, he responded: “ I want to, I feel the need to do so.”
Armani took the time to walk through the exhibition, called “Accents of Style,” which is not chronological, as the