Mr. Garavani, 93, died on Monday at his home in Rome, the city where he founded his brand in 1959. He was a bridge between different ways of thinking about female beauty: between beauty as a rigorous standard to uphold and beauty as personal power. He began his career when a woman needed a preordained form of attractiveness to move up in the world, and he was the last of a generation of designers for whom transforming a woman into a great beauty was a wondrously lucrative, admirable and uncomplicated pursuit. His death comes at a time when beauty is political, debatable and consequential. The spirit of diversity, gender inclusivity and generosity of recent years is getting pushback from a rise in neotraditionalism and hyperfemininity in Washington and elsewhere.