Giorgio Armani. Catalogo della mostra

Armani is a way of life. It's not mine, but it is the clearest statement of Italian style in the last quarter of the twentieth century. And it is a guarantee that Italy has not abandoned its natural role as a creator of art, even though for a period, in the heroic years of the economic boom, which was not hallmarked with the Italian style, it might seem to have been eclipsed. Armani simplifies, choosing an everyday attitude, relaxed, never affected, which extends beyond the boundaries of fashion. Armani does not think about clothes, he thinks about people. He thought about people in the years of the student protests of Marcuse's one-dimensional man (today forgotten). He thinks, and his hand designs loose-fitting, comfortable forms that define a style, not a fashion. (Dalla Presentazione di Vittorio Sgarbi)