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This picture is in honour of the passing of Armani muse and friend Lee Radziwell. ‘In 1985 she was appointed the designer’s director of special events, and she wore Armani everywhere she went. To her wedding to producer Herbert Ross, in 1988, it was a pale blue Armani suit [...] From the beginning, Radziwill says, she and Armani “had very much the same taste. It was about simple, low-key things and a great respect for line and beauty.” That was, of course, part of what brought the two together. The designer always saw her as an Armani woman: “She is strong-willed and feminine in a non-stereotypical manner. And she expresses her personal style through reducing, not adding. She stays true to herself. She’s beyond passing trends.”

She shares a photo of the two of them from her private collection. It was from a weekend she spent at his house on the Italian island of Pantelleria one summer when she took a place on Sardinia. They were on their way to Count Giovanni Volpe’s big ball in Venice, but they had spent the day out on the water. “He loves the sea as much as I do,” Radziwill says. It’s a relaxed and happy picture of a moment between friends’.
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