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...days before Milan's semi-annual fashion shows begin, Italian newspapers report that some of the biggest names in the industry would soon be indicted for allegedly bribing tax officials to go easy on audits. Among those reported by Italian news agencies: Giorgio Armani, Gianfranco Ferre and Mariuccia Mandelli (the name behind Krizia.) TIME Rome reporter Greg Burke says that nearly all the top Italian fashion designers had been called in over the last several months as part of the massive "Clean Hands" corruption probe. Today, Armani reacted coolly: "It's a formality related to the known investigation...
...designers sat out the carnival while making fortunes out of basic, neutral clothes. They include Giorgio Armani, who started the last real revolution in fashion with his destructured jackets, and his colonists-Calvin Klein, Jil Sander and Donna Karan, among others. Now the fashionable cycle has restarted. Versace saw it coming. "I dressed Claudia Schiffer and Madonna like my mother used to dress," he says. "You see, women are changing again. They don't want to look androgynous anymore...
...Dartboard would also like to question the extravagant amount of $3,000 for the Angry Pilgrim's wardrobe. How hard can it be to dress a pilgrim? Three thousand dollars sounds suspiciously like haute couture for mascots--that is, if Giorgio Armani would ever waste his time designing a pilgrim outfit...
...contempt for the overt has led observers to compare her to that other purveyor of modern simplicity, Giorgio Armani -- an analogy Sander rejects. "I'm happy he exists," she says, "because he brought a minimalist vision of fashion compared with, say, Chanel or Versace. But I feel far away from him; these are two different concepts." In fact, Sander's style is even more spartan than Armani's, her palette even narrower; her detractors would argue that her look is far more severe and somber. "She is one of those designers other designers laugh at," says Joan Weinstein...
...selling sex, they were kissing babies. Altman should have been at Milan's Blumarine show when model Carla Bruni rolled a baby carriage containing another model down the runway. High-waisted baby-doll dresses, started by New York's Anna Sui last year, are ubiquitous in 1994. Even Giorgio Armani, who should know better, has one. Going along with the fake-innocent look are Peter Pan collars -- last seen on Mrs. Doubtfire -- that will be in the stores by fall...