When Aaron Taylor-Johnson and I spoke on the phone last week—he was at the Cipriani in Venice; I was in a bedroom in Brooklyn—the world had yet to suffer the loss of a fashion luminary. But Giorgio Armani was on both our minds regardless. Il Maestro was deeply enmeshed with the film industry , outfitting A-listers both on- and offscreen for the better part of 50 years. It’s only natural, then, that the Italian designer was also a supporter of the Venice Biennale, the parent organization of the Venice Film Festival. And it’s just as natural that Taylor-Johnson—an actor, of course, but also an Armani Beauty ambassador—would be in attendance, hitting the red carpet while taking in all the glitz and glamour of the proceedings throughout the city.

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