London - Giorgio Armani used his podium as guest editor of The London Independent on Thursday to focus on Africa, although the Italian fashion designer couldn't resist putting a picture of model Kate Moss on the front page.
Readers were presented with a headline banner in the paper's RED edition saying half of all revenues from Thursday's sale would help fight Aids in Africa and that a free poster of Moss was inside.
Armani's decision to concentrate on Africa mirrors that of a May edition of the newspaper when Irish rock star and Third World campaigner Bono was the celebrity guest editor.
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In his editorial column, the designer talked of the empathy he felt with those children in the world whose innocence has been torn away because of conflict, famine or poverty.
The 72-year-old said that while playing in wartime Italy with childhood friends one had been killed when an unexploded shell detonated. Armani himself was burnt and briefly lost his sight.
"To this day, that event has affected me profoundly, and, when the war was over, I had to watch my mother foraging for food and see my father thrown into prison, along with all the Italian men who had worked for the state," he wrote.
The designer is in London to promote the opening of his new store.
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