Those aren’t scutes and scales you’re looking at. OK, from a distance it may look like a snake skin sculpture of a suit, but up close it is in fact actually something even sleeker, and altogether more modern. This is mesh construction gone luxe. This is sports, future style. It’s space age, industrial tipped, born in a lab couture. This is what Sci Fi would look like if it starred Carrie Bradshaw. It’s netting from the next millennium. Sure, the twisted, curving peplum and skirt are reminiscent of he classic look of a traditional couture suit but that body skimming jacket and hard, plasticized rubbery textile, with all the connotations of fetish and fantasy attached to it have to be more modern. Besides do you really expect the future to abandon the past? What looks good on a body now still will in a hundred years’ time. But Armani Prive is not going to wait that long…Oh, and by the way if it was the gloves that caught your eye then you were seeing scales. Turns out mesh and snake goes well.