Paris’ Haute Couture Week: Giorgio Armani’s sparkling tribute to 1930s art deco and painter Tamara de Lempicka celebrates geometry, graphicism and pure frivolity

Jul 7 , 2022

Statement jewellery, bright colours, sparkles and organza featured heavily in Giorgio Armani’s haute couture autumn/winter 2022-2023 show in Paris. Photo: Reuters

Giorgio Armani seemed to bring the women from Tamara de Lempicka’s iconic 1930s paintings to life on the runway at Paris Haute Couture Week

The Italian designer says he wanted to ‘give new space to sparkle and frivolity’ with his collection, and did just that with dazzling pink and purple hues and geometric shapes

Giorgio Armani Prive’s Haute Couture autumn/winter 2022-2023 collection saw a geometric runway cross-pollinate to gentle geometry – and delighted with its tailoring. This couture season, the Italian fashion legend wanted to “give new space to sparkle and frivolity” inspired by the universe of art deco Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka.

Shimmering organzas featured heavily in Giorgio Armani’s haute couture autumn/winter 2022-2023 collection. Photo: Reuters

Giorgio Armani evoked the 1930s through graphicism in silhouettes. Photo: AP

On the runway, the heyday of the graphic art deco movement – the 1930s – was evoked through a graphicism in the silhouettes. Art deco was a movement created in reaction to Art Nouveau, replacing the latter’s undulating shapes with geometry.

The Italian designer’s craftsmanship was on fully display at Giorgio Armani’s haute couture autumn/winter 2022-2023 show. Photo: Reuters

Models strut in gorgeous hues of pink and purple at Giorgio Armani’s haute couture autumn/winter 2022-2023 collection. Photo: Reuters

A model presents a creation by designer Giorgio Armani as part of his haute couture autumn/winter 2022-2023 collection show for fashion house Giorgio Armani Prive in Paris, France, on July 5. Photo: Reuters

Earrings and necklaces were chunky and graphic at the show. Photo: AP

A silken grey jacket had the Oriental feel fashionable at that time with silvery linear trim. Elsewhere, swirls adorned the busts of dark fitted column gowns, while earrings and necklaces came as chunky and graphic.

Models and their clothes quite literally sparkled in Giorgio Armani’s latest haute couture creations at Paris’ Haute Couture Week. Photo: Reuters

Giorgio Armani dazzled spectators at his autumn/winter 2022-2023 haute couture show with a staggering 92 different looks. Photo: AP

As ever, Armani showcased his signature statement shoulders, shimmering organzas and satins and lashings of sparkle in the longest collection seen all season. There were in total 92 looks.