When Giorgio Armani and Enzo Jannacci studied medicine together

The son of Enzo Jannacci He tells the link between his father and Giorgio Armani, who died last September 4, a bond not known to many and born in childhood. His words were told by the newspaper Printing. We are in the post -war Milan. «I know, you don’t believe it because those two, the Enzo – who was then my dad – and Giorgio – is fine, Mr. Armani, as everyone says today – could not seem more different. But you have to trust: those two were friends since they were children. But friends friends, of those who could allow themselves to say anything to the other, and to do it too. Giorgio, who had come from Piacenzaand the father, who came from who knows what planet, lived near, in the houses between Piazza Adigrat and via Sismondi, near where the grandfather worked, at the Air Force in Piazza Novelli ».

We are in the post -war Milan. «But the grandmother is the key character of this story: the grandmother loved him Giorgio, indeed, Giorgett.“Enzino, look how Giorgett is beautiful, look at how good he is, look what beautiful nasìn, not as yours!”. And at night he put a soft board on his father’s nose to make him a little better ».

The test of friendship is in a 1983 TV broadcast that is also found on YouTube. There is a game on skating and the nose of Jannacci. «There you can see the two friends, indeed, more: two who were friends when they were children and can afford what others would never dare. And in fact it ends up that Giorgio snatches him with that shimmering, too shiny, “suburban!” He tells my dad his stylist friend. And strap! Away a sleeve and goodnight. Stuff that you can only do if you have enormous confidence ».

Armani was one more year of Jannacci. «There was to decide the university after the scientific high school at Leonardo da Vinci. And the dad a little wanted to give satisfaction to the grandfather who kept us, a little had El Giorgett who had already chosen to go to medicine: so he also enrolled. Then after a while Giorgio understood that it was not his way and changed, but dad no, he was a mothing and medicine ended it, perhaps also because he had to apply three times more than all. Then at a certain point it seemed that their roads could also cross at work. I don’t know who had recommended it to him, but for the Sanremo of 1991, with the song La photography, someone said to dad: “Well, but to dress by Armani who is your friend” ».

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The clothes arrived, but Jannacci did not use them. “He dressed himself and bought what he needed. Giorgio, precisely because he knew his dad too well, accepted that decision with great fair play and if I’m not mistaken he also left him a jacket or two of those he had sent him. This is a story that does not know anyone and is very beautiful because it testifies to the friendship and a form of great affection of their own. Accepting the character of the other, perhaps even a mistake, an error or a misunderstanding, but always with great class. For my part I can say that one thing I have always admired by Giorgio was the penalty, an unmistakable style. Another giant of our time has gone. “