MILAN - RTW S/S 2008

On the Armani runway. After the Giorgio Armani fashion show, it is customary for Mr. Armani to pose with all the models for the photographers. It is here that he receives and is photographed with the celebrities, who watched the show from the front row. The Spring Summer collection, entitled South was inspired by the slow mood of the languid southern Italian summer. A gentle and relaxed sense of time and a yearning for a life more closely tied to the rhythms of nature; fierce light and deep shadows that alter the intensity of colors, reviving beige putty, earth grey and transforming blue into lava black, with the dark green palms, stylized and enlarged to create abstract patterns and geometric motifs.

VIP lounge - Giorgio Armani. Producer and actor, Samuel L. Jackson arrives with his wife, Latanya Richardson Jackson in the VIP lounge before the Giorgio Armani show. Jackson has just finished filming Iron Man with Hilary Swank and Terrence Howard, whilst his wife is appearing in the films All About Us and Blackout.

VIP lounge - Giorgio Armani. Socialite and Jewelry designer, Osanna Visconti di Modrone talks to actress Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere. Osanna is wearing her latest creation a bronze bracelet, whilst Lucrezia is wearing a Giorgio Vigna silver ‘stone’ necklace.

Detail. Chocolate covered Chinese gooseberries, one of the many delicious goodies to tempt the celebrities with their champagne.

VIP lounge - Giorgio Armani. Two times Oscar nominated director, producer and writer Spike Lee. Lee was in town meeting with the Maestro for talks about costume design for the film he’ll be shooting soon in Tuscany. The film will be called, Miracle At Saint Anna.

VIP lounge - Giorgio Armani. Actress, Anna Kanakis who latest film is called La Terza Verita or The Third Truth is wearing a Giorgio Armani men’s smoking suit. “I like the ambiguous look; it’s very Julie Andrews in Victor Victoria. That was my mood today.” She explained.

Swarovski encrusted minaudiere.

Shoes by Giorgio Armani

VIP lounge - Giorgio Armani. New York photographer, Roxanne Lowitt has always been behind the scenes at fashion shows around the world taking candid photos of models, celebrities and designers, she is an institution in the crazy fashion world. Here she is photographing the beautiful Roberta Armani who like the perfect hostess is receiving her uncle's guests in the VIP lounge before the Giorgio Armani show.

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