Giorgio Armani Blazers

Cashmere tweed from a house that built its tailoring reputation on soft-shouldered Neapolitan construction, now sitting where outlet wool usually lands.

A camel-hair blend from a house that once defined eighties power dressing, now priced where outlet lines usually sit.

A mainline Armani cut named after a person, not a place -- the Taylor model runs shorter in the body with higher button stance than standard sizing suggests.

A navy wool blazer from the brand's primary line, but the listing itself cannot confirm which Armani world this belongs to.

A pure silk Giorgio Armani piece from Italy, cut in a size and era that rewards knowing what changed in the brand's tailoring.

Mani was the Armani line that dressed the architects and gallery owners of the late eighties -- the same unstructured shoulder, the same refusal of padding, but cut for bodies that moved rather than posed.

Mani was Armani's answer to the working wardrobe -- the same Italian tailoring, stripped of ceremony.

Armani's Le Collezioni line from the early 1990s built the soft-shouldered Italian silhouette that defined Wall Street style.

A Nineties-era Armani line that predates today's house naming, in a textured tweed that sits outside current silhouette tastes.

A 1996 Giorgio Armani blazer in herringbone cotton-nylon sits where only secondary-line pieces usually appear.

The Le Collezioni line from the eighties and nineties is what Armani built on before the secondary labels multiplied.

Le Collezioni was Armani's bridge line -- not the runway label, not the diffusion brands -- and the three-button cut from this era carries a fuller lapel and softer shoulder than what replaced it.

Armani's Roman cut — the tailoring language that defined power dressing for a generation — here in cashmere most buyers mistake for the secondary label.

A three-button black suit from a house that once defined power dressing, now priced where contemporary labels crowd the field.

A double-breasted, long-line cut in houndstooth from a label whose tailoring cachet has eroded faster than its tailoring quality.

A nineties Giorgio Armani cut in the era when Italian tailoring still dictated boardroom silhouettes -- now priced where secondary lines cluster.

A Le Collezioni-branded piece from the nineties, when Armani's tailoring still carried the weight of the earlier decades.

Mani by Giorgio Armani -- a label that shares a name with the boutique line but occupies a different world entirely.

Giorgio Armani's Le Collezioni line carried the house's tailoring reputation through the late eighties and nineties with a single-button silhouette that still reads forward.

Le Collezioni sits where Armani's tailoring legacy meets a label most buyers scroll past.

A 1980s Armani tailoring silhouette that redefined the decade's power dressing, now stripped of the era's premium.