Emporio Armani Spring 2011,Milan Fashion Week

Emporio Armani Spring 2011,Milan Fashion Week

Fancy Girl, the muse for Giorgio Armani's latest Emporio show. She was most certainly all that and more, in her shiny jacket and leggy tube skirt. This last item, in stretch tulle, was the show's foundation stone. Everything else—the tiered voiles, the little flared skirt with the center zip, the one-shouldered trapeze cocktail dress—sat over it. It was a typical Armani move, to take one item and play it out through the entire collection. In the past, he's attached himself to a particular hat or a pair of pants, among other polarizing flourishes, with all the attendant risks.