Description: The first monograph to do so, Giorgio Armani: Empire of the Senses examines the visual, material, phenomenological, spatial, discursive, and economic culture of Giorgio Armani and his lifestyle empire. The book explores how Armani's designs and decisions provide a surface on and through which to mediate acts of translation: from East to West; from fashion to art; from one gendered identity to another; and from two-dimensional image to three-dimensional object.
Review Quotes: 'Illustrated with some numerous black-and-white images, this serious book makes a genuine contribution to understanding a designer whose work can tell us much about ourselves and the times in which we live.' Costume