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...case of Giorgio de Chirico is one of the most curious in art history. An Italian, born in 1888 and raised partly in Greece-where his father, an engineer, planned and built railroads-he led a long, productive life, almost Picassian in length; he died in 1978. He had studied in Munich, and in his early 20s, under the spell of a symbolist painter named Arnold Böcklin, he began to produce a series of strange, oneiric cityscapes. When they were seen in Paris after 1911, they were ecstatically hailed by painters and poets from Picasso to Paul Eluard...
Just the name . . . the name alone . . . the very mention of the name sends off sparks and sets up a clamor like a French fire drill. "Giorgio Armani! Except for white truffles, pasta and opera, the Italians can't be credited with anything...
...Giorgio's grandfather Lodovico had a shop in Piacenza where, his grandson recalls, "he made wigs in the 19th century style, many for the local theater. He took me backstage with him. I was fascinated." Giorgio's parents diverted him from dreams of the lively arts and into medical school, which he endured for three years before surrendering to the inevitable military service and a three-year hitch as a medical assistant. Back in civvies in 1954, he took a job, "almost by accident," with La Rinascente, one of Italy's largest department-store chains. He helped...
...used for everything from long business conferences to quick lunches. Bergdorf's Mello remembers "buying a collection of Armani's under a bare light bulb in a tiny hotel room. We could hardly see the colors, so he took the lamp shade off." In 1975, when the Giorgio Armani Co. was founded, it had a working capital of $10,000 and one receptionist, a student whom, Galeotti recalls, "we could pay so little we had to let her study...
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...