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Armani’s Roots

As a child in Piacenza, Italy near Milan, Armani was influenced by his mother’s innate sense of style.

He attended the University of Milan’s medical school but changed course in 1957 when he took a job at the department store La Rinascente in Milan.

He took his healing ambitions to a different plane, creating fashion with an understanding of the human form.

A form which extends an esthetic well being that emanates from the psyche of the wearer.

(Photo at left: Cover of Armani Book; Woman's trouser suit (detail), Spring/Summer 1996; Photo: Tom Munro )

Armani has the talent to take raw ingredients of that fabric or this and create an ensemble, which flows with the times we live in. He draws influence from the world over.

He has a natural gift for tailoring, he is an engineer, designing clothing that blend the textures and color of fabrics and decorative materials with the astute understanding of the fluidity and aerodynamics of the way the human body moves.

From the first collection of menswear he designed for Nino Cerruti in 1964, Armani went on to become a freelance fashion designer in 1970 with the encouragement of his partner Sergio Galeotti.

In 1975, Armani and Galeotti founded their own company, Giorgio Armani SpA, establishing the Armani label.

Walking through the retrospective we see an evolution yet with a feeling of continuity threading its way from his earliest designs to this moment.

There is a distinctive aesthetic that resonates throughout the exhibit.

(Photo above: Giorgio Armani backstage, Fall 2002 Milan Womenswear Show; Photo by Giovanni Pucci)

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