Giorgio Armani to Unveil Exhibition at Milan Design Week

Giorgio Armani is gearing up to unveil an exhibition dedicated to its interior design projects. Called “The dream of living according to Giorgio Armani,” the exhibit will open at the Armani Theater on April 14, the first day of the upcoming Milan Design Week. The retrospective will collect a range of sketches, renderings, scale models, pictures and material samples of the most important projects developed by the Armani/Casa Interior Design Studio around the globe. “My Interior Design Studio has been working on exclusive projects across the world for the past 10 years, conceiving innovative creative solutions where a luxurious yet essential aesthetic is interpreted through the culture and ethos of the single locations,” Armani said. “With this exhibition I wanted to tell of an articulated and complex experience, a trip into the innovations of the hotel business and into the dream of living, a trip we made with the collaboration of the great masters of contemporary architecture.” Among the projects on show at the Armani Theater, there will be the new Queen’s Gate Place in London, the Armani Hotels in Dubai and Milan, the World Towers in Mumbai, The Century Spire in Manila, the Residence by Armani/Casa in Miami, as

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Textile Sector Aims to Push Agenda

WASHINGTON — The U.S. textile industry is on the rebound and going on the offensive. Textile executives attending the National Council of Textile Organizations’ annual meeting here last week said as the strong resurgence in the U.S. textile industry continues to build, they plan to carry that message to Congress and the White House in anticipation of action on several pending trade deals and measures this spring that will have a significant impact on their businesses. “There is a natural gravitational pull for some business and programs to come back to the Western Hemisphere based on macroeconomic conditions, transportation costs, energy costs, [rising] labor costs in Asia,” said Auggie Tantillo, president and chief executive officer of NCTO. “The real driver is it is becoming a little more cost effective to produce in this hemisphere. That’s why the policy decisions that are made over the next couple of years are hyper critical to us. Conditions have turned and there is a resurgence. All the trend lines in our industry are up.…We want to keep the policy from interrupting what appears to be a set of positive trends for our industry.” Executives pointed to a range of positive economic indicators that show the industry, which

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