The passing of Giorgio Armani, the absolute monarch of the group that bears his name, is a stunning loss. He will forever live in the world’s collective imagination for his sharp, soulful and uniquely transversal approach to business in which fashion, furniture, hotels, cars, flowers, restaurants and more made up a coherent if multifaceted whole.
Should he be remembered as the designer who gave working women a uniform worth their newfound roles? The herald of soft masculinity? The man who…

