Designer Giorgio Armani poses with models at the Fall 1980 Ready to Wear Advance Preview in Milan, Italy. | Fairchild Archive/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images

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The clothes designed by Giorgio Armani (July 11, 1934-Sept. 4, 2025) very much reflected relaxed elegance – a supercool attitude that blurred divisions between men's and women's clothing. Forming the Giorgio Armani Company in 1975, he first made menswear, then launched a women's line, one that recut a traditional men's suit jacket.

Armani told "Sunday Morning" in 2006 that it was a response to the emer

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