Fashion Wars — Giorgio Armani vs. Dolce & Gabbana

Armani

VS

Dolce & Gabbana

Drama has engulfed the fash­ion world. The lat­est feud has been started by Gior­gio Armani, who accuses design­ers, Domenico Dolce and Ste­fano Gab­bana of steal­ing one of his designs. Now, before we get to the design that has the seventy-​​four year old designer in such an uproar, let’s take a glimpse at the col­lec­tions that both par­ties showed today. It makes the com­ments issued by the design­ers so much more enjoyable.

First up is Gior­gio Armani whose sig­na­ture pieces this sea­son included halter-​​top styled shirts and high-​​waist pants:

D&G on the other hand sur­prised with a col­lec­tion inspired by the band jacket:

Now mov­ing on…

So why all the hostility?

Armani claims that Dolce & Gab­bana stole his Fall 2008 quilted pants (left) to use in their Fall 2009 col­lec­tion (right). (EW…the mere exis­tence of both pairs is a travesty)

“Armani is noto­ri­ously bold about defend­ing his designs, and noted that Dolce & Gab­bana used a design he claimed as his own no less than 16 times on the run­way: ‘I would under­stand if they were nobod­ies. But hon­estly!’” Looks like Armani is going to press the issue, cit­ing, “Now they are copy­ing. Later, they will learn.”

Dolce & Gabbana’s response?

“Surely we still have much to learn.  But def­i­nitely not from him.  Styl­is­ti­cally, the Armani style is not, and has never been, an inspi­ra­tion source for us and we stopped see­ing his fash­ion shows years ago.”

Bet­ter watch it boys. Those are fight­ing words!

…but I am going to have to say TEAM D&G on this one.

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More from the Fall 2009 D&G col­lec­tion under the cut…