Giorgio Armani may be the world’s most recognisable designer, but as the 89-year-old wrote in his autobiography, his childhood ambition was to be a physician.
“Intended as countless light vibrations creating new colours as well as surface vibrations on clothes,” as he explained to the Guardian, it resulted in his signature louche silhouettes appearing on the catwalk in a series of iridescent silks and undulating 3D layers. As ever, Armani remains resolutely uninterested in verbose statements or clickbait clothes as he approaches the 40th“Creating clothes for people to wear is truly the part that I enjoy more than anything else in fashion,” said Armani, voicing concerns about the direction in which the industry is moving.