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This is a big year for Giorgio Armani. It marks the 25th anniversary of his company and, on July 11, his 65th birthday. And he has big plans. There's the exhibition of his work opening at the Guggenheim museums in New York City in October and Bilbao, Spain, next March, then traveling to Tokyo, London and Venice. He is launching home and cosmetics lines, as well as shoes and handbags, unveiling an office in Milan with a theater for his fashion shows, and building a huge outlet, also in Milan, to house Emporio Armani, Armani Jeans and the first...
...realities have intervened. In February, Andrew Grossman, the man Armani hired 10 months earlier to oversee U.S. operations, was asked to resign. Industry insiders say Grossman's middle-market thinking clashed with Armani's. In March, Matthias Vriens, the creative director Armani hired last July, took a job at Gucci. And then in April, Armani's managing director and key deputy, Giuseppe Brusone, made it known he would be leaving after 15 years with the company. Suddenly the question appeared to be, How will Giorgio get things done...
...film rests on the shoulders and taut torso of Bale, who as a child starred in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun and played Jesus in a recent TV movie. His Patrick is stylish and creepy--Jack the Ripper in an Armani outfit. Bale's dishy anonymity (he stares at himself and says, "I simply am not there") makes him the ideal black hole at the center of this movie. It needs to be seen and appreciated, like a serpent in a glass cage...
...Giorgio Armani's new scent is called Mania. Later this year Ralph Lauren will launch a perfume called Ralph. And Givenchy has three scents due in the fall: Fast Forward, Rewind and Play. After years of offering exotic and sensuously named perfumes and colognes, fragrancemakers have started giving scents names that evoke more prosaic moments...
Roberts knows some people look down on her work, but with a closetful of shoes and Armani outfits and the ability to travel abroad with her husband whenever the mood strikes them, she doesn't worry much about negative opinions. "The books are about the celebration of falling in love and emotion and commitment, and all of those things we really want." Since she has them, it's hard to fault her optimism...