Fashion maestro Giorgio Armani marked 20 years of his haute couture line Armani Privé with an elegant and emotionally charged show in Paris’s chic 8th arrondissement.

CNN Style is one of the official media partners of Paris Fashion Week. See all coverage here. Haute couture is an enigma to most. Accessible to only a select few (an estimated few thousand people globally) because of the eye-watering price tags that such extraordinary designs command,

For the uninitiated, unbelievably sheer weightless organza gowns, mesmerizing feather embellishments, and jeweled clothing decked out with crystals and pearls is the norm at Armani Privè, Armani’s line of haute couture.