So what Giorgio Armani He said something so trivial that it seems odd that it should be considered extraordinary. Yet in times of different fluidisms, of lgbtqxyz, of schwa, of gender, of boys dressing up as girls and girls dressing up as boys, in the years of “today I choose how I perceive myself”, of men’s nail polish , from hairy woman’s legs (ask Damiano’s fiancee des Maneskin), here: right in the middle a gentleman, of a certain age, boss of a not insignificant fashion house, who places you straight couple in his fashion show and says: I needed some normality.
The true transgression it should be today hetero. Armani didn’t say it that way, but it gets through to the reader. “It was a precise decision” to organize the men’s collection show around a standard couple, because trivially “we’re talking about a man and a woman who love each other, who love each other”. At the end of the show, to the tune of Ludovico Einaudi, Giorgio performed five couples in love hugging and looking into each other’s eyes. Did you understand what a revolution? He wanted to “show this reality that everyone likes, then there are the transgressions, the variations, the modernities, they’re fine, of course I’m not saying anything, but it was great to see a cute couple again“. Understood? He liked to see “a nice couple”, a “normal” thing, not in the sense that everything else doesn’t exist or shouldn’t exist, but in the sense that if you do the math, the majority of Italians, and not only they, mate with a person of the opposite sex. Were it not for the continuity of species so much, statistics would suffice to explain it.
Then there is another lesson to learn and put aside. The one about “beautiful”. Armani has models of a “embarrassing beauty‘, because ‘everyone likes beauty’: ‘Force the ugly, force it on strange it doesn’t belong to me.” And explain it to those who are “curvy models,” to those who need to be “inclusive,” to those who have turned TV series and cinema into a mess of respectability where it’s more important to respect each and every one Touch than the story point of political correctness “Did we put a black actor in it?”, “Is there a gay guy?”, “And the liquid?”, “Remember a transsexual?”, “A curvy guy?” “Parent 1 and Parent 2?” At least for today (tomorrow, who knows) we’re left with Armani looking for ‘beautiful’ and ‘a cute couple’ Strictly straight True transgression.
Giuseppe De Lorenzo, January 18, 2023