Fashion designer Giorgio Armani dead at 91

Milan – Giorgio Armani, the Italian designer who transformed the concept of elegance that was criticized to the billions of dollars in a fashion empire, confirmed his home. It was 91.

Armani died at home, said the fashion house. Armani, one of the most famous names and faces in the global fashion industry, erred, Milan Fashion Week in June 2025 for the first time during Spring-Summer 2026 for recovery to recover from an undeclared state. He was planning a major event to celebrate 50 years of the Giorgio Armani fashion house during Milan Fashion Week this month.

Starting with an unpopular jacket, a simple pair of pants and an urban plate, Armani put a ready -to -wear style on the international fashion map in the late 1970s, creating a comfortable silhouette that can be recognized immediately that pushed the fashion house for half a century.

From the executive office to the Hollywood screen, Armani wore the wealthy and celebrities in classic styles designed, designed with super soft fabrics and silent tones. His clothes of handsome black tie and sparkling evening dressing are often stolen on the red carpet in the award season.

At the time of his death, Armani had collected an empire worth more than $ 10 billion, which included alongside clothes accessories, household furnishings, perfumes, cosmetics, books, flowers and even chocolate, which arranged it at the best 200 billion billion, according to Forms.

The designer also has many bars, clubs, restaurants and his basketball team EA7 Emporio Armani Milan, known as Olympia Milano. Armani opened more than 20 Milan restaurants to Tokyo since 1998, and two hotels, one in Dubai in 2009 and another in Milan, in 2010.

Armani himself was the basis of his style

Armani’s style with Giorgio Armani himself began, starting from the penetrated blue eyes in a permanent shock and shock at an early age of silver hair, to brand jeans and work clothes shirt and simple decoration for his own domesticity.

The ARMANI fashion vision was easily elegant as the latest interest in the difference.

“I design real people. There is absolutely no virtue to create inappropriate clothes and accessories,” he liked to say when he was asked to get to know his customers.

In the conversation, the designer’s smile and moderate ethics smiled wonderfully, the harsh businessman underneath, who was able to transform creative talents into a value empire worth more than $ 10 billion. Neither the merger or the sale, Ru Giorgio (King George) as the Italians called it, was always its boss.

Born in July 11, 1934, in Piakinza, a small town south of Milan, Armani’s dream would become a doctor before a part -time job as a window decoration in a Milan store, who opened his eyes to the fashion world.

In 1975, Armani and his partner Sergio Gallowe Volkswagen sold for $ 10,000 to start their own men’s clothing mark. Follow women’s clothes after a year.

The unknown sporty symbol was unknown, which was launched in the late 1970s and became an immediate success from Hollywood to Wall Street. The designer pair the jacket with a simple T -shirt, an element of clothing called “Alpha and omega from the fashion alphabet”.

The Armani suit soon became necessary in a good -heeled man cabinet. For women, the entry of pants in the executive working room was revolutionary. It was called “Energy Suit” with her shoulder -covered jacket and her shoulder pants, and the brand of the rising class of businessmen has become in the 1980s.

Over the years, Armani softened the appearance with fine details, luxurious fabrics, and the brighter shades of the beige and gray panel. His insistence on pants and jackets led some critics to the classification of “Androgynous”.

Armani hits Hollywood

The 1980 movie “American Gigolo” was launched by ARMANI and actor Richard Gere in their career in Hollywood. GERE, who is wearing Armani, Gre, became the new favorite heart in America, and “Geeorgeeo” as they called it, the most popular designer in the GAM group.

Hollywood earned him his contact with the Grace Film Ackle in more than 200 films, and in 2003 a place on “Walk of Fame” for Rodeo Drive.

Night Night always brilliance, with a smart meeting of men, and sparkling dresses for women. Sean chose among the best actor for the year 2009 his statue in the Armani Black group on Black, while Anne Hathaway, a candidate for the red carpet in a sparkling white evening dress from the latest Armani fashion collection.

Among the other lovers have long been Judy Foster, George Clooney, Sophia Lauren and Brad Pitt. David and Victoria Beckham “faced” his 2009 advertising campaign.

It was important to the influence of Armani style, not only on how to wear their clothes but how they approached the fashion, to the point that in 2000, the Goghnheim Museum in New York came back retrospectively from the first 25 years of Armani fashion.

Armani said about his efforts: “I love things well, and things that do not distinguish and become vivid examples of the best.”

Armani has gone beyond fashion

Today, Armani Empire includes an army of more than 9,000 employees, with half of the executive wing, along with seven industrial centers and more than 600 stores all over the world, according to numbers released in 2023. In addition to clothes and accessories, the company produces perfumes, cosmetics and household furnishings, as well as selling its Candy and flowers. His fifth multi -brands designer opened on Fifth Avenue Street in New York in February 2009.

In the world of fashion hobbies, Armani had many bars, restaurants and clubs, as well as the basketball team. He spent the time of entertainment at Getaways in Brunei in the countryside near Milan, Pantellia island off Sicily and St. Trops on the French Riviera. Carry the brand of Armani’s brand: bare walls, important pieces, little Knickknacks.

Like many of his colleagues, Armani tried to respond some fame and wealth that he collected during the peak “Moda Milanese” that put Italian ready -made in the middle of the world’s fashion map at the beginning of the millennium. Personally, many charitable organizations are involved in children and a strong supporter of AIDS, in 2002, Armani was named Ambassador of United Nations Refugee Goodwill.

Gallowe died in 1985. Armani had no children but was very close to his niece Roberta, the daughter of his late brother Sergio. He abandoned the emerging cinema profession to become a director of public relations, and she often represented her uncle, who was not many of the party’s pioneers, on social occasions. In subsequent years, it was a major key with the world of celebrities.

In 2006, she organized a better wedding for actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes in a medieval castle outside Rome, while Uncle Giorgio designed clothes for both the bride and the groom.

Armani had indicated that when he looked at the caliphate, he had long been looking for his boss from his men’s clothes Leo Deloco and his niece Silvana Armani, who fills the same role for women’s clothes.