(by Gioia Giudici) (ANSA) - MILAN, 23 SEPTEMBER - "I don't think I have to retreat from my ideas and my way of thinking, I don't want to take a step back" says Giorgio Armani at the end of the show where today in Milan Emporio Armani celebrates in catwalk his first 40 years.
A celebration accompanied by a video projected at the beginning of the show, by an exhibition at the Armani Silos, by the appearance on the catwalk of the historical collaborators SilvanaArmani and Leo Dell'Orco, directors of the women's and men's style offices of the Emporio, by a special episode of the magazine that bears the name of the line, and also some reflections. "40 years have been hard, very hard but also beautiful, beautiful, despite 40 years of strange fantasies, even absurd proposals, seeing boys so simple, clean and cute - reflects Armani - I was very pleased, I hold on for that, because I believe the my way of thinking then finds a remarkable finding ". And if in 4 decades Emporio still finds the way to reach young people and stay new there is a reason: "there are thermal lecures and facelifts" jokes Armani,then explaining that "he renews himself by looking around and not doing what is proposed to you". (HANDLE).