Armani/Silos
Converted nineteen-fifties grain silo turned minimalist temple to four decades of one designer's fashion archive.
Armani/Silos opens inside a nineteen-fifties Nestle grain silo in Milan's old industrial quarter, built for sacks of wheat thundering down four stories of concrete. Giorgio Armani, forty years into building one of fashion's most powerful names, chose this unmarked granary as a home for his archive rather than a marble palazzo, and on the thirtieth of April 2015 it reopened as a museum of roughly six hundred garments and two hundred accessories dating back to 1980. The guide walks the floors level by level, each one built around one of the designer's own obsessions, from androgynous tailoring to the glamour of Hollywood red carpets. Listen for how Armani himself explained the choice of a granary over a palace.
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