At the head of a real fashion empire, Giorgio Armani has reigned over the Italian style since the 1970s. The emblematic creator died on September 4, 2025 at the age of 91, leaving behind an immeasurable heritage. Back on a phenomenal career.
Couturier Giorgio Armani died on September 4, 2025 at his home in Milan, at the age of 91, after a period of illness. His health had already forced him to cancel his presence at the parades of Milan and Paris during the summer of 2025. The announcement of his death provoked a wave of emotion in the world of fashion and culture, many personalities like Donatella Versace, Bernard Arnault or the Italian Minister of Culture paying homage to an “master of elegance” and an “emblematic figure of Italian culture”. The funeral chamber will be installed at Armani/Teatro in Milan from September 6 to 7 to allow the public to pay him a last tribute, while his funeral will take place in intimacy.
Born July 11, 1934, Giorgio Armani Grows up in Piacenza, in the Italian region of Emilie-Romagne. After studies never completed with medicine, then photography and a passage through military service, he started young (23) his career in fashion. His first position: in 1957 take care of arranging the windows of the Rinascent, Milanese department store, before being a buyer. Hired as a stylist at Nino Cerruti in the early 1960s, he discovered all the secrets of the creation of men’s costumes. Then decides to launch his claw in 1975, supported by Sergio Galeotti, His companion at the time, who died in 1985.
From its first collection, a piece marks the spirits. A unstructured and without lining jacket, light clothing thought of to be a second skin and say goodbye to the rigidity of the uniform. Unheard of before! The success is such that a year after the brand’s kick-off, it is already sold at Barneys, a legendary New York department store. In Hollywood too, his creations do not leave indifferent. Giorgio Armani even becomes the darling of American actors after having signed the costumes of Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton in the film American Gigoloreleased in 1980. Since then, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jodie Foster, Cate Blanchett (the actress who plays in advertising for The sfum sì), Isabelle Huppert or Juliette Binoche succumbed to the creators’ outfits, who created her Giorgio Armani Private Couture line in 2005. What pleased him was also his interpretation of the interpretation of the interpretation of Power dressing May its palette of sober colors, its clean and elegant cuts and its choice of noble materials, wages of a certain chic.
As early as 1980, Giorgio Armani decided to extend his success in the bathroom. He signs a license of perfumes with L’Oréal, which will give birth sixteen years later to Acqua Di Gio, one of the best -selling male perfumes on the planet. Giorgio Armani, who was a long time only captain at the head of a real empire, was considered The richest designer in the world. In addition to the brand that counts his name, he had seven other lines, including EA7, devoted to denim, decoration, beauty or even furniture fabrics. Not to mention its cafes and restaurants, the first of which opened in 1989. Paris, New York, Osaka, Tokyo, Dubai, Milan, Monaco, Cairo, Hong Kong … prized addresses, disseminated to the four corners of the globe. In 2006, it was in the hotel industry that this real businessman decided to develop a subsidiary by creating the chain Armani Hotels In partnership with a Dubaïote company.
His fashion house has also developed outside the stores. In 2000, the Guggenheim Museum, in New York, organized a huge retrospective in honor of the creator. A year later, Giorgio Armani asked the Japanese architect Tadao Ando to build Armani/Teatro, Milan. It was here that every season since then he presented his collections. In love with technology, the creator decided in 2007 to associate with Samsung to develop a luxury television and a mobile phone. To promote this collaboration, he presents his Giorgio Armani private live collection on the MSN Internet portal. A unique idea for the time, making him the first designer to broadcast his high -cost parade live on the web. In 2015, he again called on Tadao Ando to design Armani/Silos this time, a museum dedicated to the style of the creator, whose career was rewarded in 1987 by the CFDA, advice composed of the flagship of American fashion.
