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🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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This week, Nicole Phelps is joined by Jim Moore, GQ’s Creative Director at Large, to talk about Armani’s impact and legacy just in time for his spring 2025 show in New York City later this week, the first time that his main collection has been shown outside of Milan.
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0:00.0 | This is The Run Through. I'm Nicole Phelps. Today, I'm joined by legendary menswear expert and GQ creative director at large, Jim Moore. |
0:13.6 | Georgi O'Armani turned 90 this year, and he's looking ahead to celebrating his 50th anniversary of his brand in 2025. |
0:20.7 | This year, on October 17th, will be the first time that he's shown his main collection outside of Milan. |
0:27.9 | I thought it'd be a great time to look back at how Armani changed the codes of not just men's wear, |
0:33.6 | but also women's wear over the past five decades. |
0:36.1 | And there's no one better to do it with |
0:38.1 | than Jim Moore. And you will soon find out why. Okay, let's get into it. Thank you, Jim, for coming. |
0:47.0 | I'm so happy you're here. Thank you, Nicole. It's amazing being here. |
0:51.7 | Everybody's got a fashion gateway drug. |
1:00.3 | And for me, it was unzipped, the 1995 movie about an Isaac Mizrahi show. |
1:02.9 | I want to know, was American Gigolo yours? |
1:07.0 | Famously, Armani did Richard Gears wardrobe for that. |
1:09.3 | And you were at GQ when the movie came out, right? |
1:11.6 | Totally my gateway drug. A couple years before, I was an intern at GQ. |
1:13.6 | I lived in St. Paul, Minnesota, and I saw a couple movies. |
1:16.6 | One was lipstick and the other one was mahogany. |
1:19.6 | And they were fashion movies. |
1:23.6 | Not that I could put myself into those characters, but it got me excited to maybe get out of the small town and move to New York. |
1:32.3 | I had parents that were like, you know, go follow your dreams. |
1:35.2 | So I ended up in New York. |
1:36.7 | When I started my internship at GQ, it was right at the cusp of when Condonet asked purchased the magazine. |
1:46.0 | They were owned by Esquire before. So I came on board as an intern, and I just loved, you know, sitting on the floor, arranging |
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