There is a Giorgio Armani that goes beyond the catwalks, the collections, and international success. It is the one described in the pages of "Giorgio According to Armani: Life Beyond Success", There biography authorized signed by the fashion journalist Roberta Filippini, for many years at theHandle, the focus of a meeting with Foreign Press correspondents today, Wednesday, September 2, at 11:00 a.m. at Palazzo Grazioli (Via del Plebiscito 111) in Rome. The book will be presented in Milan in the coming days.
Published by Marsilio and in bookshop from September 1stThe 368-page volume includes a photographic insert. It gathers together ideas, memories, and confidences entrusted personally by Armani to the author, and is the result of a long conversation that began in 2014, when the designer himself called Filippini to propose writing an autobiography. The conversations in the studio on Via Borgonuovo continued for a season, before the project was shelved for years and was revived by the author after Armani's passing.
The story spans his childhood and the war and post-war years., her arrival in Milan and the building of a career destined to change Italian fashion. But it also explores her private life, including affections, passions, choices, regrets, and personal confessions.
It emerges the portrait of an Armani away from the spotlight, in his usual sobriety, but also willing to share his own emotions and fragilities. His words and the testimonies collected by Filippini thus convey the man beyond the great designer.
