The world of fashion has lost one of its greats. Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has died

at the age of 91. He's credited with elevating a quintessentially Italian aesthetic in his clothes

and making red carpet affairs cultural moments. Joining us now is Robin Givon, Pulitzer

Prize-winning fashion critic and former senior critic at large at the Washington Post,

where she worked for more than 20 years.

She's the author of Make It Ours, Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Ablo.

It's great to see you again.

Nice to be here.

So let's talk about Armani.

He really defined the look of understated elegance.

How did his minimalist approach redefine luxury fashion? Well, I don't think we would have the

vocabulary to really talk about what we now call quiet luxury without Armani. And, you know,

what he really did was apply this, his sensibility for very streamlined, minimalist, neutral palate to both men's wear and to women's.

But first with the men's where he really made an impact, where he just kind of took the stuffing,

like literally and figuratively out of men's suiting.

He took out the sort of the inner structure and allowed

the suit jackets to have this kind of ease and flow over the body. And, you know, it really started to

kind of epitomize an era of self-made men and wealthy men. And then when those clothes appeared in American

Jigalier Lake, it was everything, the jig was up. How did he reshape Hollywood's red carpet

culture? You know, I think it's kind of hard for people to believe that there was a point where the stars would show up pretty much left to their own devices.

You know, in the very early days of the Oscar red carpet, most of the celebrities were sort of dressed by the costumers from the studios.

And then they were kind of left to their own devices.

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