Giorgio Armani, who has died at the age of 91, was the first designer since Coco Chanel to bring about a lasting change in the way people dress.
Born in a pre-war era of rigid traditions and styles, his creations followed - and helped make possible - increasing social fluidity in the latter half of the 20th Century.
Chiefly, he will be remembered for reinventing the suit - feminising it for men and popularising it for women.
Armani took away the restrictions and confinements of stiffer styles that went before him - making men feel sophisticated and women empowered in the workplace.
Newspapers hailed him the "first post-modern designer". In many ways, he was a revolutionary.
