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The news surprised everyone, because as we were accustomed to Armani worked until the end: a few days ago, he announced the purchase of "La Capannina", a gesture that he described as "dear, a return to his roots".
Today, Italian designer Giorgio Armani passed away at the age of 91.
The news surprised everyone, because as we were accustomed to Armani worked until the end: a few days ago, he announced the purchase of "La Capannina", a gesture that he described as "dear, a return to his roots".
It was there, in the 1960s, that he met Sergio Galeotti, who later became his partner in life and work. Not only that, but a few days ago, he also checked and approved all the looks for his 50th anniversary collection, which will be shown at the upcoming Fashion Week in September.
A few weeks ago, just before his 91st birthday, a lung infection forced him to be hospitalized and recover at his home in Via Borgonuovo in Milan, forcing him to skip a very rare occasion, the showing of his collection in June.
He had a problem last year, which he later resolved: and at the June 2024 shows, three days after leaving the hospital, he wanted to greet his guests after the shows. However, last June, he had decided not to attend the show: "But I'm fine," he added. Quiet weeks followed: his birthday, with countless congratulations from all over the fashion world and beyond; the decision to buy La Capannina; and above all, his beloved work on his clothes.
For Armani, the summer had passed peacefully, at his home in Forte dei Marmi, with his family. And worrying every day about work and friends, insisting that they take his place in the villa on Pantelleria, where he usually spent the summer, and constantly updating him about their stay and the island. Just a few days ago, a slight worsening of a sudden stomach pain. But nothing that warned of the worst. He had resumed eating and calling to be informed of everything.
He was born in Piacenza on July 11, 1934. The third of three children. The youngest, the most beautiful, the most pampered by a mother, Maria, who instilled in him all her class and sophisticated taste in style. After the war, he moved to Milan. Not easy, but more than dignified. High school and immediately felt drawn to do something for others. "Taking care of bodies", he would say, thinking later about what was going through his mind at the time. For this reason, he chose medicine. A path that only in appearance was distant from the one he would choose to follow later: because anatomy is a science that will return to be powerful in Armani's work. His knowledge will lead him to understand better than others what would be perfect for dressing bodies - the "real" ones, as he always emphasized.
It was 1953, three years of university: then the decision to leave for the army and a return - which he found too restrictive - to the classes of the University of Milan. Hence the choice to go to work at La Rinascente. It was 1957. Fashion had entered the Armani family with his sister Rosanna, a model. He, Giorgio, started with window dressing. A few years later, Nino Cerruti - passing by - noticed that those shows on Corso Vittorio Emanuele were unprecedentedly sophisticated. It was 1964. Meeting the young, at that time, thirty-year-old Giorgio Armani, and entrusting him with one of his clothing lines was all one and the same. The path had been chosen.
Fashion became the life of this handsome man, who a year earlier had met Sergio Galeotti, a young entrepreneurial man like himself: the couple was chosen. He was the manager and he was the creator. It was 1975 and Giorgio Armani was born. His first "invention"? Historical: the term "designer". The copyright was confirmed: "I am neither a stylist nor a tailor, but I feel like someone who creates a style, a designer", he said. And so it happened.
One success after another because, first of all, Armani understood that men and women “were no longer what they used to be.” It was not a cliché, but reality: lives and bodies (here we go again) had changed, yet the clothes continued to be heavy, cumbersome, and structural.
He "emptied" everything: he deconstructed the jackets and lightened the men's trousers. And he did the same with the women he dressed, imagining them sitting at a table or rushing to catch a taxi.
Then it happened that a Hollywood director, Paul Schrader, contacted him to design clothes for his "American Gigolo." "He came to Milan with John Travolta and I accepted," Armani said cheerfully, revealing that it was not originally supposed to be Richard Gere. It was 1980. It was his consecration in the United States. Just seven years after founding the brand, he appeared on the cover of Time magazine. It was 1982. "The cover may satisfy my vanity, but it is the attention they paid to my work that gives me great joy."/Corriere della Serra
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