Armani Privé spring 2010 Couture

Karlie Kloss (NEXT)

"It's about the moon," explained Giorgio Armani before his show.

Kasia Struss (WOMEN)

"I always need a hook to get into a collection, and that was it—thinking about something romantic and dreamy, far away from our everyday life. Something less harsh."

Jac (IMG)

The lunar references, he pointed out, were poured into luminescent fabrics, curviform cutting, embroideries made to look like the craters of the moon, and a crescent-shaped updo for the hair, which, he smiled, "is also a bit of a joke."

Heidi Mount (IMG)

It made for a lightened-up Armani Privé show as he cut skirts from overlapping semicircles and worked curves into the peplums of jackets that were fastened with half-moon mother-of-pearl pins.


Agnese Zogla (SPRY)

At times there was a slight touch of 2001: A Space Odyssey uniform about it (see the leg-molded flares), and it was surely an intentional moment of humor when Vlada Roslyakova advanced along the runway impersonating the full moon in a giant disc of milky sheer-white organza.


Angelika Kocheva (MARILYN)

For evening, there were many renderings of sparkling silver beading, pale metallic pinks and greens, synthetic moiré treatments of organza, and paillettes shot with flashes of electric blue—an Armani merging of haute dressmaking and high tech.

Frida Gustavsson (IMG)

The serious chic—the looks certain to be most ruthlessly competed for pre-Academy Awards—all came from the dark side of the moon.

Sigrid Agren (ELITE)

There were three of them, slivers of black constructed with various asymmetric deployments of white or cream in the back or along the flanks.

Vlada Roslyakova (WOMEN)

The result: lengthening, figure-narrowing illusions that will have the A-listers jostling to eclipse the competition at that event, soon as poss.

Ginta Lapina (WOMEN)

Alana Zimmer (WOMEN)

Daria Strokous (WOMEN)

Skye Stracke (VIVA)

Siri Tollerød (MARILYN)

Linda Vojtova (NATHALIE)

Elsa Sylvan (VIVA)

Kim Noorda (VIVA)

Kamila Filipcikova (IMG)

Iris Strubegger (WOMEN)

Kasia Struss (WOMEN)

Karlie Kloss (NEXT)

Katsia Zingarevich (ELITE)

Dorothea Barth Jorgensen (ELITE)

Kelli Lumi (MAJOR)

Anastasia Gorodilova (ELITE)

Angelika Kocheva (MARILYN)

Frida Gustavsson (IMG)

Ginta Lapina (WOMEN)

Sigrid Agren (ELITE)

Alana Zimmer (WOMEN)

Skye Stracke (VIVA)

Daria Strokous (WOMEN)

Vlada Roslyakova (WOMEN)

Siri Tollerød (MARILYN)

Elsa Sylvan (VIVA)

Heidi Mount (IMG)

Jac (IMG)

Kasia Struss (WOMEN)

Karlie Kloss (NEXT)

Iris Strubegger (WOMEN)

Iris Strubegger (WOMEN)

GIORGIO ARMANI