Fashion world ponders Armani attack on Wintour

Fashionistas were still puzzling today over the bizarre attack by Giorgio Armani on American Vogue editor Anna Wintour at Milan Fashion Week - as exclusively revealed on Wednesday by The First Post - when at a packed press conference he wondered allowed "why so many people disliked" Wintour. What was all that about? they've been asking ever since, both in Milan and in online reports and blogs.

The best answer seems to be simply that the Italians designers generally are bitching over a recent written request from Wintour that they group their shows more closely together to save American editors having to spend so many days in Milan. This sort of request is par for the course for Wintour.

But New York magazine, quoting from The First Post's original report, has another theory: there was nothing by Armani featured in February's Vogue. "We're still waiting for the video of this press conference to pop up on Style.com as it promised," they reported. "We're guessing it won't include Armani's little rant. [Correct - it didn't.] And we're guessing Vogue won't include many of Armani's little designs in the coming months, either." (Continued below)

Meanwhile on the catwalk, Gucci designer, Frida Giannini, staged a Russian Revolution on Wednesday night, with a band of sexy Cossacks (above). Models wore silk printed tunics, metal belts, skin-tight, studded jeans and riding boots embellished with long, whip-like, leather thongs. The flamboyant Florentine designer Roberto Cavalli spurned his usual plunging cleavages and sparkling gowns for a more subtle, retro glamour. He paraded modest prom-frocks, restrained trouser suits and Peruvian-style peasant skirts. “This is not a time for overt sexuality,” Cavalli said after the show. “Sometimes it can be more sexy to be covered up.”