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...idea of his label achieving such wide circulation might reduce Armani stock in the snob market, but that would be fine with him. His clothes, from the beginning, have mocked that kind of lofty social stratification; they have always been meant, in every sense of the word, to be loose. They should be an ideal within easy reach. It is a goal that Armani, alone among great designers, has not only appreciated but implemented. One dream fits...
What does a designer like Giorgio Armani do with three homes? Simple. As if they were so many jackets, he unconstructs them. Just a simple sweeping-clear, a concentration on line and form and spare the decoration...
...walk from his office in Palazzo Durini, is a sort of luxury-class version of a Japanese monk's cell. He shares the seven rooms with a gray Persian cat named Micio. Except for Micio and a Japanese screen, practically everything in the living area was designed by Armani himself, who is mulling over the addition of furniture to his assorted ventures. Certainly the low couches and chairs here, all covered with satinized cotton, and the sculpted rectangular table in a favorite Armani shade of taupe, represent a strong start. The room is coolly lit by a couple...
There is no decoration. "I furnished this place," Armani explains, "by taking things off the walls." The almost mathematical austerity of the apartment gives way, after a while, to a stealthy sense of tranquillity. It is a little like being in a rock garden, or in a museum where the patrons are the exhibit...
...weighty volumes of everything from Erté's costume designs to Donald Duck's Uncle Scrooge ("Wonderful! My favorite! Uncle Scrooge is my partner! He's Sergio Galeotti!") and a bathroom with a tub of Carrara marble big enough for Shamu the Killer Whale. The tub, Armani's one concession to abject luxury, also turns out, perhaps significantly, to be impractical. "It is so big," he admits, "that the water gets cold before it fills...