Armani Italian Fashion Designer

Giorgio Armani by RUNWAY MAGAZINE ® Giorgio Armani Italian Fashion Designer formed his company in 1975, and by 2001 was acclaimed as the most successful designer that Italy has produced. After his stint in the armed forces, Armani found a job as a window dresser at La Rinascente, a department store in Milan in 1957. He…

40s-50s Haute Couture

40s-50s Haute Couture The Beautiful Delusion: The Transatlantic Reality of Haute Couture To the uninitiated, haute couture is a romantic aesthetic—a fever dream of silk tulle, hand-stitched embroidery, and ethereal models gliding through gilded Parisian salons. To the balance sheets of global luxury empires, it is something entirely different: a brilliant, heavily regulated loss-leader designed…