It's sheer elegance with a soft light pallet and enough frills to make Barbi blush.

“Couture needs a bit of a shake-up, no?” Armani enquired backstage before his collection took to the silver catwalk before an A-list audience which included Hilary Swank; the rising young actress daughter of Sir Peter Hall, Rebecca Hall; the two pillars of Italian cinema Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale; Lady Helen Taylor; Ellen Pompeo of Grays Anatomy fame; and the burlesque queen, Dita Von Teese revealing a surprising amount of cleavage in a low-cut, skin-tight Armani suit.