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...easy-to-digest fashion or pop-music artifacts. The embarrassing "Rock Style" show that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City put on earlier this year stuffed both trends into one silly shopping bag. And one of the fall's biggest shows will be devoted to Giorgio Armani, the Italian clothing designer, whose lustrous things are worn by lustrous people everywhere. His retrospective unveils on Oct. 20 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, which was host to a history of the motorcycle two seasons ago and would probably put on the New York Auto...
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...
...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...
...time being, Armani is running things himself, but he still needs to find replacements for Brusone and Grossman, and some see that as a good opportunity. Says luxury-goods consultant Armando Branchini: "Giorgio Armani products have great potential, but they need new ideas and new management--a new approach to the market." Armani himself agrees. Sort of. "Armani does not have the big brand problems of Nike and Coke," says corporate spokesman Robert Triefus. "Mr. Armani doesn't feel the brand needs to be reborn. But it's going through an evolution. Absolutely...
Surrounded by hundreds of decanters of Dior's latest fragrance, J'adore, Bernard Arnault, 50, swivels in an ergonomic chair at the head of a metallic gray conference table on the 16th floor of midtown Manhattan's new LVMH tower. Forget Calvin, Ralph and even Giorgio or Miuccia--this narrow-faced, thin-lipped, dimpled Frenchman is the most powerful person in fashion today...