GIGLI Romeo (Designer)

Benedetta Barzini is photographed enjoying Romeo Gigli's extravagant coat. Gold flowers and embroidered leaves collect around the shawl collar, cuffs and hem. Gigli's childhood was saturated in art history. It gave him an appreciation of beauty, and history and travel underly his work _ playing with elements from historical costume and non-European dress. The Gigli look was, and still is, one of the most distinctive in fashion. In the 1980s, Gigli's vision had a grandeur only equalled by that of Christian Lacroix. Silk suits, with either stovepipe trousers or long, narrow skirts, were worn with shirt collars that framed the wearer's face (as here) and placed under velvet coats that enveloped the figure in luxury. The impression was similar to that created by Poiret: a decorated bloom growing from a narrow stalk. A large collection of Gigli's most representative clothes and accessories are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 

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