{"id":178907,"date":"2025-09-30T01:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/178907\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:46:11","slug":"stars-align-at-giorgio-armani-show-a-lister-friends-pay-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/178907\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars Align at Giorgio Armani Show: A-Lister Friends Pay Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt was an \u201cAmerican Gigolo\u201d reunion of sorts at the Giorgio Armani <\/a>show, as Richard Gere was spotted chatting with Lauren Hutton \u2014 both actors loyal supporters of the designer over the years.<\/p>\n

\n\tIndeed, the A-listers who turned up to pay tribute to Armani<\/a> can easily be described as friends. Cate Blanchett<\/a> marveled at the location and, eyeing the balcony of the Pinacoteca di Brera,<\/a> where a group of onlookers were starting to assemble, said \u00a0\u201chow democratic\u201d the setting was.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI remember Armani<\/a> in the early, mid-\u201890s being in New York quite a bit and going to many events, whether shows or parties he was hosting, always elegant, bright-eyed and lovely. He was very kind to us, dressed us for the Oscars on a couple of occasions,\u201d said Tonya Lewis Lee.<\/p>\n

\n\tHer husband Spike Lee concurred. \u201cHe was very generous.\u201d He said Armani \u201cbecame almost a fixture\u201d in New York and always showed \u201cgreat energy, he would ask what do you do, he wanted to know, I think\u00a0he thrived on people, different people from different places, he was curious.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Richard<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tRichard Gere and Alejandra Gere<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAitor Rosas Sune\/WWD<\/p>\n

\n\tGlenn Close also described Armani as \u201cincredibly generous, an elegant, beautiful man who made clothes that were comfortable and that you could be yourself in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDean and Dan Caten<\/a> recalled meeting Armani during many summer holidays throughout the Mediterranean and also praised his generosity toward them and young designers. A cluster of peers that also did not want to miss the evening event included Dries Van Noten<\/a>, Sir Paul Smith and Ronnie Fieg. Smith said he was there for one night and that \u201cI came for him,\u201d while Fieg has been in Italy for a week working on the collaboration his brand Kith is doing with Armani. Executives Remo Ruffini and Silvio Campara also attended, the latter recalling how he worked for years at the Armani company in his early days before becoming chief executive officer of Golden Goose. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Spike<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tSpike Lee and Samuel L. Jackson<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAitor Rosas Su\u00f1e\/WWD<\/p>\n

\n\tSmiling fondly remembering Armani, Samuel L. Jackson, flanked by his wife LaTanya, said that the first thought that came to mind was that the designer was \u201ca man that had a really great smile, a really great embrace when I met him. Our relationship was based on something of a mutual respect, although I respected him immensely, so it\u2019s hard to say mutual because there is no way\u2026 but to know that I came from where I came from, and I wanted to be a \u00a0part of that particular world and that I did get into, he actually knew me, it was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Leslie<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tLeslie Bibb<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAitor Rosas Su\u00f1e\/WWD<\/p>\n

\n\tActress Leslie Bibb of \u201cWhite Lotus\u201d fame had worn Armani to the Emmys, and was there specifically for the event. Touring the exhibit, she repeatedly marveled at the clothes and the artworks. Observing one display, she was amazed how \u201ctimeless\u201d the two outfits were \u2014 one from the late \u201990s and the other from 2019. \u201cYou can\u2019t tell,\u201d she said, adding, \u201cMy mother always said that the one piece of clothing to buy is a suit. She should have said the one thing to buy is a Giorgio Armani suit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAsked whether he had to have especially made clothes given his profession, Roberto Bolle, who the evening before danced to Maurice Ravel\u2019s \u201cBol\u00e9ro\u201d at La Scala\u2019s CNMI Sustainable Fashion Awards, acknowledged that the body of ballet dancers is \u201cnot standard fitting.\u201d The strong shoulders, slim waist and muscular legs, in particular, he said, can be \u201cnot easy to dress.\u201d However, \u201cArmani\u2019s soft fashion, never constrictive or rigid, envelops you and makes you feel at ease.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tZhang Ziyi, Hu Ge, a global ambassador for Giorgio Armani, Marisa Berenson and James Norton were also among the guests.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere were plenty of representatives of Italian cinema from Oscar winner Giuseppe Tornatore to actors Toni Servillo, Valeria Golino, Margherita Buy and Anna Ferzetti to name a few.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile a few tears were shed, happy memories of the man who left a mark in their lives contributed to a mood that was also uplifting and serene.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2013 With contributions by Martino Carrera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was an \u201cAmerican Gigolo\u201d reunion of sorts at the Giorgio Armani show, as Richard Gere was spotted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49849,64,63,78116,447,115371,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-178907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-armani","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-cate-blanchett","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-dries-van-noten","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178907","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=178907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}