{"id":118440,"date":"2025-09-04T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118440\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:41:08","slug":"italian-fashion-icon-giorgio-armani-dies-aged-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118440\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian fashion icon Giorgio Armani dies aged 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Italian fashion designer and founder of the Armani empire Giorgio Armani has died aged 91.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Milan-based designer is best known for his Haute Couture line, which expanded into music, sport and luxury hotels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He is acclaimed as one of the most successful Italian-born designers and is renowned for his red carpet designs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;With infinite sorrow, the Armani Group announces the passing of its creator, founder, and tireless driving force: Giorgio Armani,&#8221; the fashion house said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He had been unwell for some time, and was forced to drop out of his group&#8217;s shows at Milan&#8217;s Men&#8217;s Fashion Week in June, the first time in his career that he had missed one of his catwalk events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The company did not give a cause of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Known as &#8220;Re Giorgio&#8221;, or King Giorgio, the designer was known for overseeing every detail of his collection and every aspect of his business, from advertising to fixing models&#8217; hair as they head out on to the runway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A funeral chamber will be set up on Saturday and Sunday in Milan, the company said, followed by a private funeral at an unspecified date.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian fashion designer and founder of the Armani empire Giorgio Armani has died aged 91. The Milan-based designer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134,49853,83817,83818,2328],"class_list":["post-118440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-giorgio-armani","tag-giorgio-armani-dead","tag-italian-fashion","tag-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}