Emporio Armani: Rhapsody in blue — vogue.it

At a recent exhibition at London’s National Gallery called Making Colour, about the origins of colour in art, I was fascinated to discover how precious and pricey to artists was the shade of blue pigment ground from lapis lazuli stone mined in a distant land. The blue hues at the Emporio Armani show in Milan brought back that thought about the intensity and beauty of a colour that seems to be connected to nature’s finest things: sky, sea, blue mountains, precious stones such as sapphires, aquamarine and – lapis.

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