Models during Giorgio Armani's Autumn/Winter 2020 show at Milan Fashion Week (left), and the designer arriving to his show wearing a mask (right).   Reuters / Alessandro Garofalo Giorgio Armani  held his runway show at  Milan Fashion Week  in an empty theater amid  coronavirus  fears. On Sunday,  Armani  released a statement announcing that the  fashion  show, which was due to take place that afternoon in front of an audience, would be livestreamed instead. Models during Giorgio Armani's Autumn/Winter 2020 show at Milan Fashion Week.   Reuters / Alessandro Garofalo The statement outlined that this decision had been made in order to "safeguard the well-being" of guests who had been invited to the catwalk. "The show will be shown behind closed doors, due to recent developments of coronavirus in Italy, live-streamed in front of an empty Teatro [theater] on the Armani website, therefore please do not atte...

In one photo from that time, Dapper Dan stands outside his store; in the window is painted "Coming Soon Dapper Dan's Ladies and Gentleman Boutique." At the Gucci store, amid the luxe leather jackets in late-1980s styles and the entry-level T-shirts that simply advertised the collaboration was a T-shirt with these painted words faithfully rendered as they were on the actual window ($550). For this, I am a mark. For this, I am the mark. That picture is imprinted on my brain. The confluence of hip-hop history and fashion iconography was too much to resist, and I bought it, even if Dapper Dan himself would never have used a cotton this filmy. I sat on one of the raised G chaises while I was being rung up, and wondered what it meant to be tacky. Gucci 63 Wooster Street, 212-710-8980; gucci.com Source:New York Times