Giorgio Armani embraced his reputation as a meticulous micromanager who had a hand in everything big and small at the fashion juggernaut he founded and led for five decades until his death on Thursday at 91.
Whether the obsessive attention to detail that had Armani personally making last-minute alterations to garments backstage helped him create a viable succession plan has always been a mystery in Milan fashion circles. Even when Armani for the first time in his career missed several fashion…

