First Emporio Armani collection showcased since the founder's death

Emporio Armani unveiled on Thursday its first collection since the death of the fashion house's founder and designer, with models paying tribute to the man known as King Giorgio with long applause during the final walk of the show.

No one came out for the usual designer's bow, not even Giorgio Armani's niece Silvana, who always worked alongside him in creating the womenswear collections. Some in the audience had tearful eyes.

Emporio Armani's spring-summer collection, titled 'Returns', was dominated by neutral tones, airy garments and multicultural inspirations. "The collection is born from the desire to capture the impulse and shifting sensations that accompany a return to the city, after a journey," the brand said in notes for the press.

"There are radical reconsiderations of the fundamental properties of clothes – skirts find their points of suspension from the shoulder, brassieres have shape without structure.", they wrote in the notes.