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Last week, legendary fashion designer Giorgio Armani publicly defended one of the industry’s threatened species: the red carpet.
In justifying the parades of excessively expensive frocks and jewellery in a pandemic (one look at India’s daily infection toll should be enough to make any mere mortal rethink that ballgown), Armani told
Women’s Wear Daily red carpets were “a moment of escape and dreaming”.
From left: Maria Bakalova, Carey Mulligan, Regina King, Nicolette Robinson, Amanda Seyfried.
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“I understand a momentary lack of interest now that things have gone virtual, but it will matter again, and actually it already does,” he told the publication.