When Designers Attack: Winnie and Armani Fued
Giorgio Armani attacks Vogue’s Anna Wintour
The claws were out as Armani made it very clear that his “indifference” towards Winnie was a bit more of a stewing, brewing batch of hate.
Speaking at a press conference to promote the upcoming Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition Superheroes, which he is co-chairing with Ms Wintour, the leather skinned Armani said he could not understand why so many people dislike the US Vogue editor, claiming he was “indifferent” to her.
Not content to leave it at that, Mr Armani detailed what he thought sparked this dislike, referring to her championing of the US and French fashion industries and alleged lack of support for Italian fashion.
Standing with Ms Wintour, who supposedly once declared the Armani era over, he said: “I was told she said that, I hope that she didn’t,” (oh, she did buddy, she did) according to reports in The Guardian.
Distancing himself further from his co-chair, he said they had different taste in clothes. (basically he likes stylish pieces with European cuts and influences, while she likes clothes from designers who advertise in Vogue).
It was not immediately clear what inspired Mr Armani to break ranks with the traditionally more subtle air-kissing and back-stabbing atmosphere of the fashion world by criticising the industry’s most powerful journalist to her face, but Ms Wintour’s recent request that Italian designers group their shows more closely together to help US editors save money was not met with joy.
The top Milan shows once stretched over seven days but have now been compressed into four, leaving some lesser-known designers unable to attract top international editors to their shows.
Mr Armani’s work will appear alongside designs from John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler and others in “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy”, a show that highlights the use of comic book imagery in fashion design. The exhibition opens in New York in May - assuming the co-chairs are still speaking to each other.
About the Author: Founder and main dude at Fashion Indie, Daniel Saynt began his career in fashion at the tender age of 14, when he worked in the stockroom for some unnamed fashion whorehouse. His distaste for the mainstream quickly festered until he decided enough was enough, denouncing all mainstream fashion lines (unless the stuffs on sale or just down right irresistible or free, you can't say no to free).
