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...Giorgio Armani defines the new shape of style...
...feminine than the tight, boxy '60s style. "Flippy" is the word used by some skirt watchers. Says New York's Cuban-born designer Adolfo: "The old minis looked like clothes that had been chopped off at the bottom. Now they are different, looser." Adds Milan's Giorgio Armani: "The new miniskirt is not stiff and straight but soft, fitted at the hips and gathered for a short volume effect. It is also a natural evolution toward femininity after the dizzying circus of pants, knickers, Bermudas, gauchos and Zouaves." Valentino, the dean of Italian designers, argues that "women...
Many Italian Communists believe the schism is irreversible. Giorgio Napolitano, leader of the Communist bloc in Parliament, said last week that the Pravda attack "represented such a violent, drastic condemnation that one cannot see how it could be reversed." Others still see some possibility of a future rapprochement. Said Camilla Ravera, 93, one of the last surviving founders of the Italian party: "This will be an episode, but in my life I have seen many of this type...
...Giorgio Armani, the Italian designer who has been placing increasing emphasis on skins since he first used them in his 1976 collection, explains: "Leather now has sex appeal. The difference between leather and fur is that fur is just a dead animal one carries around, while leather falls and folds on the body to become a second skin...
...other major modern painter has less to tell us about the tensions of history and the facts of the 20th century than Giorgio Morandi; none, except Matisse, retired more completely from the "confrontational" role expected of the avantgarde. Today Morandi's renunciation of the art world as a system seems noble, exemplary and perhaps inimitable. He disdained all ambitions that could not be internalized, as pictorial language, within his art. This earned him the reputation in some quarters of a petit maítre: a man who, though he said it very well had only one limited thing...