Man, I remember when we had those "If Money was No Object" threads, and everyone's wishlist had an Armarni megasession in it. Now we can look back and be glad of our poorness.
I lost faith in Armarni's dodgy practice when I saw how he handled botched procedures:
A year, maybe 2 years ago an Asian diffuser went in for FUE: He was diffuse in the NW5 pattern, but had an intact hairline - a classic diffuser.
He went in for 3000+ grafts FUE to thicken it up, and when he started posting the 6 month, 9 month+ "regrowth" pictures it became clear that not only didn't a single graft take, the intact follicles in the areas next to the grafts also died off. He went in a diffuse NW5 that looked fine with a little Toppik - to a weirdly slick NW5 with odd scraggly bits hanging around.
This guy would post an update of his botched hair transplant results every month, and then would post "Armani isn't answering his phone" "None of them are replying to my e-mails" and he'd ask for advise. (none that we could give him).
Armani botched the hair transplant and just left the dude out to dry.
Then the Cease and Desist letters started hitting the boards whenever someone badmouthed Armani.
Don't know if Armani himself or a tech performed the hair transplant (probably the latter) but all I know is I wouldn't get an Armani hair transplant if you paid me.
Armani goes on in his videos about "Art" and then his clinic comes out with hideous work like this:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SSl6ymv5A0o/R ... ost+op.JPG
What a joker.