A few weeks ago, during a Milan Fashion Week unlike any other , hundreds of people wondered what the future of fashion could be like, having just lost a towering figure of its past. While we’ve never seen so many new designers at the helms of design houses with names as legendary as their sales figures are colossal, there was one man, who left the scene in September, who understood long before anyone else did that fashion isn’t just about style, clothes, or history : it’s also about geography.

That man was Giorgio Armani, whose death on September 4 plunged Milan and the whole of Italy into deep mourning. The couturier, a giant of fashion , also left his mark on the urbanism—and not just the shop windows—of Italy's Lombardy over the course of his 50-year career , not only with

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