Momento Sustainable Stories

The Giorgio Armani suit of the '80s, shoulders padded and waist nipped, was a vessel for masculine decadence. For that decade's newly gym-obsessed corporate elite, the zoot suit–like silhouette so captured the spirit of the moment that, after its debut on American Gigolo star Richard Gere, Eric Clapton donned it for his slick pop comeback and Larry Gagosian wore it to build Jean-Michel Basquiat's career.