Tight-fitting dresses hung with chains at Versace and rippling skirts worn over loose trousers at Emporio Armani turned heads at Milan fashion week on Friday, as designers offered up a host of contrasting styles.
Chain mail worked its way into black T-shirts with biker logos and evening dresses in the spring-summer 2014 collection by Italian fashion house Versace, alongside flippy skirts over high platform sandals.
Emporio Armani’s silky party dresses and voluminous trousers cut just above the ankle used fabrics that were “soft, with a certain light transparency”, Italian designer Giorgio Armani told Reuters after the show, which was themed on water lilies.
Franca Sozzani, editor of the Italian edition of fashion magazine Vogue, said there was no such thing as trends any more.
“What is good in fashion is the freedom,” Sozzani told Reuters, otherwise, “we’d be slaves of the trends.”
