If you can't make it to Milan to visit Armani/Silos, the designer's newly opened museum, this book offers something even better : a VIP tour of his 40 years in fashion , conducted by Mr. Armani himself. - W MAGAZINE Chronicling his life from war-stricken beginnings to the building of his clothing empire that soon became known and revered the world round, you can immerse yourself in Armani's world. . . Beyond juicy tidbits previously unknown to the public , the book also takes a look at the slow but steady rise of the Armani Empire. -VISIONAIRE BLOG The images speak for themselves , the stylistic arc of a man whose career, which took off in the late 1970s, captured the loyalty of a rising feminist wave of working women and Hollywood stars of both sexes, and eventually came to rule over an Italian empire recognized all over the globe. . . But more than anything, what emerges is the first real insight into the mind of a man, and it is humanizing . - VOGUE Giorgio Armani is a very beautiful and distinctly no-nonsense book , by and about a designer who spent many years at the very top of the fashion tree- simply by ignoring what other designers were doing and following his own aesthetic. - THE BUSINESS OF FASHION sakriti opis