Giorgio Armani, spring 1994 ready-to-wear Photo: Condé Nast Archive

Editor’s Note: “Finally Buying Armani,” by Dodie Kazanjian was first published in the May 1994 issue of Vogue. We are reprinting it here in memoriam of the Italian designer who died at 91 on September 4, 2025.

The need to own an Armani jacket stole over me gradually, so gradually that by the time I became fully aware of it, I already wanted one quite a lot. I hardly ever buy top-of-the-line designer clothes—the last time I had the urge was four years ago, when I went all out and got my first Chanel suit.

The Armani jacket seems to have edged out the Chanel suit as this decade’s ultimate piece of clothing. A lot of women I know are addicted to its fluid, understated, soft, versatile, and blissfully comfortable style,

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