ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: Milan Fashion Week took on a hint of opulence on Friday (February 21), as Emporio Armani offered luxurious fabrics for autumn and winter.<br/> <br />The sun finally peeped through the clouds on Italy's fashion capital for the third day of the city's biannual women's fashion extravaganza.<br/> <br />Giorgio Armani injected volume and a sense of humor into classic tailoring for his youth-focused Emporio Armani line.<br/> <br />Gamine models wore wide-legged trousers that ballooned out from the waist, topped with androgynous fitted jackets.<br/> <br />Turquoise and white broke up the dark color palette, appearing in a flash on shoes and repeated on knitwear, a padded jacket and a shaggy fur coat.<br/> <br />Black evening dresses twinkled with beading and trails of pearls on black velvet trousers resembled pinstripes.<br/> <br />Accessories had a masculine flavor: necktie shapes hung over décolletage, and wide-brimmed soft hats recalled outsized bowlers.
