Romeo Gigli

His fashion is replacing its tailored, colourful traditions with a subtle colour range and fluid garments which would be widely influential. Often made of stretch fabrics, his clothes gently drape the body in a classical sense, but are thoroughly modern in treatment in the manner and angles at which they fasten or attach, or in their unexpected exaggerated shapes, Gigli's womenswear designs are essentially romantic. His velvet and embroidered capes and boleros and his wrapped tops and skirts, were highly successful during the mid-80's. His palette is subdued but deeply vibrant and ultimately highly sophisticated.