The heist of bank deposits in Cyprus and the corporate bailouts in the United States a few years ago are the bitter, logical fruit of ideologies that exalt government power above property rights.
Armani is also in a perennial tug of war with the fashion establishment, which tends to exalt the more tormented or intellectual work of designers like the late Alexander McQueen, Louis Vuitton's Marc Jacobs and much to his irritation Miuccia Prada.