I read in a—as always—meticulously written piece by Sílvia Rosés in the ARA that Giorgio Armani had been out of the "creative storm" for years. That was true. And given what we've been seeing for some time now, he's still in luck. Rosés's was a nice way of saying that the Milanese brand didn't become a trend day in and day out, producing absurdities designed solely to garner social attention. He continued doing what he had always done: adapting elegance to the present with high standards of quality and nods to modernity, if not to the avant-garde. This had been his formula since he founded his brand in 1975 with Sergio Galeotti, the first great love of his life and partner in the genesis of the firm. In fact, very poetically, the genius's last major acquisition before his death was the Forte dei Marmi nightclub where he had met Galeotti, who died prematurely in 1985, just over 40 years old, from complications arising from AIDS.