... £250 pound beaded tops and £450 pound suits were quickly popular and became the backbone of the thriving Armani Empire. Everything was not to continue up hill for Armani though. Sadly in the mid 1980's Armani's close friend, Galeotti, died, leaving Armani to take over the business as well manage his busy lifestyle as a designer. It was a harsh awakening for the designer who had never dealt ... with the business side of fashion before. "Sergio protected me from everything. The outside world was like a foreign country to me then he died I had to defend myself from lawyers, deal with the ...

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... in the search for languages, literature, history, and philosophy supported the move into humanism. The awakening of the human intellect and individualism paralleled the great development in the fine arts. With newfound inspiration and execution styles, the fine arts of the Renaissance questioned the traditional beliefs and stiff representation of the Middle Ages. The Roman Catholic Church and the Crusades set the standards of the truth in the Middle Ages. In contrast, human achievements in the arts and sciences stimulated the Renaissance. As the first ... on the theme rather than visual...

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• Grade Level: High School