“He Makes Suits Light as a Feather”—Jim Moore, GQ’s Creative Director at Large, on 50 Years of Armani

2024 has been a big year for Giorgio Armani ; the designer celebrated his 90th birthday earlier this summer, and the year also marks five decades in the business. To mark this milestone, the designer decided to stage his spring 2025 show in New York City later this week, the first time that his main collection has been shown outside of Milan.

This week, Vogue Runway’s Nicole Phelps is joined by Jim Moore , GQ ’s Creative Director at Large, who began working at GQ as an intern in the late ’70s just before the release of Paul Schrader’s classic film American Gigolo , which starred Richard Gere exclusively wearing Armani’s new soft suits, ignited a menswear revolution . “It was the first time we really saw men looking sexy in a suit, in a sexy masculine way,” Moore recalls. “Th