Dedicated to Giorgio Armani and in honor of the King. Thus begins the Milanese fashion week, celebrating the man and the designer who gave so much and who loved Milan so much. The first “designer” who made Italian fashion great all over the world, with his art, which certainly did not concern only the way of dressing. On the contrary.
To celebrate the fifty years of creativity, the Pinacoteca di Brera, from today to 11 January, in fact hosts, for the first time, an exhibition on the style path traced by Giorgio Armani, through a selection of clothes immersed in its prestigious rooms, among the works that tell the Italian art from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Masterpieces among the masterpieces, in a narrative that King Giorgio edited with his hands before leaving us and that outlines his elegance, his rigor, his style: unique. We miss his gestures, his smile, his irony while admiring a lot of beauty, a path entitled “Milan, for love”, a further page of his book, dedicated to his city by adoption.
Giorgio Armani had in fact repeatedly declared the link with Brera, a neighborhood he had chosen to live and work, of which he admired the dual soul, cultured and together deeply vital, with his mixture of elegance and artistic freedom. A profound relationship recognized by the Academy of Fine Arts, which in 1993 had given him the academic title for the consistency of his style research. “Giorgio Armani was one of the highest expressions of Italian creativity that has expressed itself in the essentiality and rigor of the forms, a rigor that from aesthetic has become ethical, that is, it has permeated its way of living and working. And in this Giorgio Armani represents the character of Milan to the maximum degree. Armani is also the most typical expression of Brera’s culture, a single place in the world, where art, research and innovation has been made for five hundred years. And that’s why I believed it is right and dutiful to celebrate the fifty years of the maison in the Pinacoteca with an exhibition that enhances its absolute talent and inimitable style, “said Angelo Crespi, director of the Pinacoteca di Brera.
And Armani himself said from the pages of his book “For love”: «An exhibition can be seen in two ways. On the one hand there is the immediate satisfaction of the creator’s ego. On the other there is the didactic value, the unique testimony that you can offer to the public, but above all to young creatives, through your work: a feeling that lasts and satisfied. Here, I am interested in this second aspect ».
The clothes, selected by Armani Silos and museums around the world, tell and define fifty years of creativity. Themes and codes that make Giorgio Armani’s work unmistakable: tailoring, one -way decoration, predilection for neutral but never flat colors, the love for the wealth of processes, treatments and embroidery, signs of a measured inspiration that turns out to be little by little, and changes the very definition of sobriety. The mannequins, invisible, let the bodies be only evoked by the clothes …
And it is pure emotion, for the genius of a man who has dedicated his life to work and who for “a breath” will not be present at the celebrations for his 50 years of style: who will remain eternal.
