Word: armanied
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...great moment. But it is very much a matter of the moment, and what may now seem like a temporal fancy can become, decades hence, a tactile key into the past. Clothes are the fabric of history, the texture of time. And this time, right now, belongs to Armani...
...made over this little pocket of the present that when he decided not to show his new fall women's line during the semiannual glitz and giddiness known loosely as the Milan collections, he incurred the wrath of the press but walked off with the honors anyway. "Armani is the king of the Italian Alps," says Geraldine Stutz, president of the modish New York City department store Henri Bendel. The assorted princesses, princelings and pretenders scattered about the feudal fashion kingdom of Milan sent their models gadding down runways in all the latest but did not succeed in dislodging...
...Fashion shows have become too much show business and too little fashion business," says Armani, 47, who preferred to present his collection to small groups of buyers. News that drifted out from these private sessions-plus the resplendent showing of a line of suedes and leathers in high-noon colors that Armani designed for Mario Valentino-was sufficient proof that he was still secure atop Stutz's Alps. His absence from the collections-the very term weighty with a self-seriousness completely at variance with Armani's stylings-rebounded loudly and probably widely, at least to Paris, where...
...Armani means his clothes to be worn in different combinations for different effects. There is no set Armani mood, just as there is no consistent Armani image or typical Armani customer. "I don't have in mind either a tall person or a short person, ugly or beautiful, jet set or middle class," Armani says. "I aim at a client who dresses from individual choice, not imposed fashion, and not simply because something was designed by Armani." Snaps Bergé: "I'm in the fashion business, and even I can't tell you what an Armani...
...there is a consistency in Armani, it is one of adventurousness and quality. If there is a trademark-besides those winged initials that work their way onto the backs of his jeans, the loops of his leather pants and entirely too many other places-it is the tailoring. This means not only the standard of craftsmanship but, more generally, the look, shape and fall of a garment. English Designer Bruce Oldfield maintains, "Men's wear hasn't looked back since Armani dropped the lapels and made the softer tailored look." Says another English designer, David Emanuel, who with...