The stylist who freed the body from the rigid straps made the same path as the ball, who was able to derive to change direction
Giorgio Armani has dressed modern football and still dresses it. No, not a team or a national team, but the idea. The designer conquered the world with the destructured jacket, which freed the body from the rigid straps and wrapped it with soft fabrics, in the mid -seventies, just as Cruijff’s Netherlands destroyed football and removed the pins of fixed roles, freeing the functions across the board. The visionary genius is this: to breathe the spirit of the times and anticipate those that will come. The world was about to be unstructured by the digital revolution that would take off the pins at office work. Mobile professionals, such as Suurbier and Krol, orange full -backs. Football no longer went back. Declined by bags or guardiola, it remained soft, shapeless, like an Armani jacket. Full -backs that concentrate, fans who advance …
Spalletti’s jacket
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Today it is said “liquid”. If I don’t boast a liquid game, you are nobody. It is a research that would have passionate about medieval alchemists: “solid” team and “liquid” game. The Armani jacket that dressed Luciano Spalletti at Euro 2024 was liquid: a little jacket, a little suit, a little room dressing gown. In retrospect, the huge writing Italy on the back has become metaphorical: an exaggerated weight, a cross, on the shoulders, already a little curved, of an excellent coach, but still frail like CT many social irony on that jacket. But a genius does not indulge the taste, it imposes it. That boss was elegant, if, as King Giorgio taught: “Elegance is not to be noticed, but to be remembered”. We will not forget Spaltone in the dressing gown.