Made in Milan , Martin Scorsese’s 1990 short documentary film about Giorgio Armani, begins not with a shot of the legendary fashion designer but with a view of his chosen home city.

“The old buildings here are not imposing and opulent like the ones in Rome,” Armani says in a voice-over as the camera pans over the Milan Cathedral, the largest church in Italy and one of Milan’s most famous landmarks, with its intricate façade of countless pointy spires. “But they have a discreet elegance that almost whispers.”

He explains that the city, where he moved to in the late 1950s to work at the Italian department store Rinascente, is in harmony with his work, his way of life, and his perspective on the world. Milan isn’t flashy. (Armani couldn’t stand exhibitionism.) Rather, it’s a city of interi

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