As he turns a magnificent 90, Mr Armani celebrates some of his most major moments in Vogue with Robin Muir.
Milan, summer 1975. A 41-year-old Giorgio Armani has sold his blue Volkswagen Beetle to finance a new fashion business. He rents a tiny office and hires two members of staff: a young secretarial student, Irene Pantone, and an irrepressible showman from Tuscany, Sergio Galeotti, who is in charge of sales. In what passed back then for a showroom, the three brought out a menswear collection, followed by one for women.
Like many who grew up in the shadow of war, it was cinema that offered the young Armani an escape: Italian neorealism, then the glimmering technicolour of Hollywood. With a foresightedness all but then unique in his world, he began to dress the stars themselves in public and, enduringly, on the red carpet. In 1978, Diane Keaton accepted her best actress Oscar for Annie Hall in a neutral-coloured, deconstructed Armani jacket in crumpled linen and a layered skirt.
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