Giorgio Armani: A Retrospective at the Royal Academy will be open from 18.10.03 – 15.02.04

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“It is a big question about whether fashion is art, and it’s up to the public to decide,” he said. His aim was “not to make fashion for fashion’s sake, but, like a doctor, to make people feel better about themselves”.