Italian names may rule the fashion industry, but that doesn't mean that the average joe is some kind of fashion dynamo. According to Giorgio Armani -- he's a shirtless slob. At least, that's what he told the Telegraph about the rampant casualness going on in the Italian fashion centers these days.

The 73 year old Global Fashion Leader thinks that Italy's hold on fashion elegance is slipping as a result of its increasingly lax attitude towards personal appearance. From the article:

"It is time to straighten ourselves out, we are too slovenly... Everything seems to be allowed, even eating and drinking in a church square while stripped to the waist."

Coming from the land of perpetual casualness, it's hard to really empathize with people who think things are getting too informal just because men don't wear ties to work. But even in the States, people aren't usually shirtless and drinking on the front porch of the church -- unless, of course, they sleep there.

Armani says that he doesn't want to turn back the clock, it's just that he doesn't like what's going on now with skeevy, disheveled dressers crowding the once elegant atmosphere. We wonder if Giorgio has notice this trend going on in any other countries? We've seen a couple slovenly-looking types lurking around fashion centers good in the ol' US of A.