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Designer Giorgio Armani<\/a><\/p>\n\n\tHe was known to pose for selfies and talk to people who would approach him in his stores or during public events. In 2023, staging his One Night Only event in Venice, Armani was visibly emotional. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to hold back the tears, when you see young and old people of all different walks of life come up to me, asking for a photograph, and equally moved\u2026and this repays me of all the efforts I have put into my job,\u201d he said back then, adding that he attributed his \u201cauthenticity, honesty and frankness\u201d to this outpouring of affection, elements that \u201cbring up hidden feelings\u201d in people.<\/p>\n
\n\tArmani\u2019s light blue eyes could be piercing and steely if something was not to his liking \u2014 and, being a perfectionist, many things initially were not \u2014 but they would then suddenly turn soft and even a bit mischievous, reflecting a keen sense of humor.<\/p>\n
\n\tAdding further poignancy to his death Thursday is the fact that Armani, who held the role of chairman, chief executive officer and creative designer, will not be able to mark his namesake company\u2019s 50th anniversary as planned. A fashion show and party were scheduled to take place in Milan on Sept. 28 and the company had been planning the event for months. <\/p>\n
\n\tArmani also was mounting an exhibition retracing five decades in fashion through 150 archival looks at the Pinacoteca di Brera Museum. This would be the first time the cultural institution would host a fashion exhibition. Expected to open on Sept. 24, the exhibit\u00a0should be flanked by a broader digital project called Armani\/Archivio, a platform that was launched last week during the Venice Film Festival filled with a catalogue of all\u00a0Giorgio Armani<\/a>\u00a0collections to date.<\/p>\n \n\tArmani\u2019s\u00a0spring 2026 womenswear collection was slated to be unveiled on Sept. 28 with a runway display to be exceptionally held in the storied courtyard of honor of Palazzo Brera, the 17th-century landmark home to the Pinacoteca, the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense library and the Brera Academy.<\/p>\n \n\tThis year marked several milestones for Armani, who also marked the 20th\u00a0anniversary<\/a>\u00a0of his Priv\u00e9 haute couture collection by mounting an exhibition at the Armani\/Silos space in Milan retracing his journey in couture since 2005.<\/p>\n \n\tOpened in May and titled \u201cGiorgio Armani Priv\u00e9 2005-2025,\u201d the exhibit runs through the end of the year.<\/p>\n \n\tStill, even as preparations for his big celebration have been taking place, it was clear from this summer that the Italian designer was in poor health. He skipped his Giorgio and Emporio Armani men\u2019s spring 2026 shows in Milan in June as he was \u201crecovering at home\u201d from an illness. In his place, Leo Dell\u2019Orco, head of menswear design, took the final bow at the\u00a0shows \u2014 the first time ever Armani did not do so. Armani also did not attend the Priv\u00e9 haute couture show for fall 2025 a few weeks later in Paris either.<\/p>\n \n\tDell\u2019Orco is part of the tight-knit circle of friends and collaborators Armani called family. The designer\u2019s closest relatives include his nephew Andrea Camerana, the son of Armani\u2019s sister Rosanna, who also works in the company, and Roberta Armani, who is the daughter of the designer\u2019s late brother, Sergio, and who has been in charge of the group\u2019s relations with high-profile celebrities for years, often acting as Armani\u2019s deputy on social occasions around the world as the face of the company. Her sister Silvana is part of the design team.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tDesigner Giorgio Armani directs models during rehearsal in preparation for Giorgio Armani fall 1988 promotional dinner and fashion show in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tArt Streiber\/Fairchild Archive<\/p>\n \n\tWhile the future of Armani\u2019s company has sparked speculation for years, the statement issued on Thursday pointed to continuity. The company was built over five decades \u201cwith emotion and patience. Giorgio Armani always made independence \u2014 of thought and action \u2014 his hallmark. The company is, now and always, a reflection of this spirit. His family and employees will carry the group forward in respect and continuity of these values.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe designer revealed details about the future of his company for the first time in 2016, confirming he had established the long-rumored\u00a0Giorgio Armani Foundation, which,\u00a0<\/a>while aiming to fund social projects, also ensured that his fashion group would live on.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI decided to create the Giorgio Armani Foundation in order to implement projects of public and social interest,\u201d Armani said at the time. \u201cThe foundation will also safeguard the governance assets of the Armani Group and ensure that these assets are kept stable over time, in respect of and consistent with some principles that are particularly important to me and that have always inspired my activities as a designer and an entrepreneur.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThese founding principles are based upon: autonomy and independence, an ethical approach to management with integrity and honesty, attention to innovation and excellence, an absolute priority to the continuous development of the Armani brand sustained by appropriate investments, prudent and balanced financial management, limited recourse to debt and a careful approach to acquisitions,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \n\tWhile vocal over the years about his aversion to sell, take on a business partner or publicly list the company, rumors about Armani contemplating forming a foundation first emerged in 2012. The foundation reflected a key priority for Armani \u2014\u00a0independence, which he sought to maintain over the years, especially since 2000 when rumors about a possible sale to\u00a0LVMH Mo\u00ebt Hennessy Louis Vuitton\u00a0<\/a>or the-then Gucci Group and\u00a0L\u2019Or\u00e9al<\/a>\u00a0swirled around the fashion house.<\/p>\n \n\tThe speculation was only natural since Armani has been a major fashion force since the \u201970s. In short \u2014 like Gabrielle Chanel, Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent \u2014 Armani literally changed the way people dressed and lived. And unlike the others, that revolution touched almost everything, from T-shirts and jeans to gowns; fragrances to hotels; suits to candles. He created a behemoth group that closed 2024 with net revenues of 2.3 billion euros.<\/p>\n \n\tGiorgio Armani Parfums and Cosmetics, under license to L\u2019Or\u00e9al<\/a>, ranks as one of the biggest designer beauty franchises in the world. The French beauty giant since 1988 has developed Armani\u2019s fragrances, skin care and makeup in close collaboration with the Italian designer and in March 2018, it and the designer agreed to renew their beauty license until 2050.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tArmani continued to think long term until the end.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cDuring 2024, while well aware of the market slowdown already evident in the second half of 2023 and of the many challenges arising from the international context, I continued to operate with an eye to the future,\u201d he said in July, commenting on his company\u2019s year-end performance. \u201cIt is with this in mind that I chose in any case to invest in projects of great symbolic and practical significance, which are fundamental to the future of the company,\u201d\u00a0channeling 332 million euros, almost double the 168.5 million euros channeled in 2023, and almost three times the average yearly investments in the previous years, into new projects. These included the building on Madison Avenue in New York, Palazzo Armani, the prestigious headquarters in Paris on Rue Fran\u00e7ois 1er and the renovation of the mega\u00a0Emporio Armani<\/a>\u00a0store in Milan.<\/p>\n \n\tConsistency and cohesion were keywords in Armani\u2019s vocabulary throughout his five decades as a designer. However, he resisted \u2014 and resented \u2014 the notion that he could be described as merely rigorous or minimalist and he disliked being associated with the color \u201cgreige,\u201d\u00a0even staging the \u201cEccentrico\u201d exhibit in 2012 to show his more eccentric side.<\/p>\n \n\tFor a WWD Weekend cover story on interior design two years ago, the interview was held in Armani\u2019s Milan apartment \u2014 obviously exquisitely, but also surprisingly, furnished.\u00a0Case in point: a beautifully restored armchair was newly upholstered with a leopard print fabric \u2014 not exactly a pattern that one immediately associated with Armani. The apartment was originally designed by Peter Marino, but Armani had filled it with memorabilia \u201cof personal, more than material value.\u201d For example, a sweet portrait with his mother took pride of place, visible from the entrance into the room. Above it was a painting of a black panther and an artistic sculpture of a gorilla was also an unexpected feature.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tWhile staying true to his own vision and strategy throughout his life, Armani also took bold decisions to ensure the long-term success of his company. After building a diversified portfolio of brands, in 2017 the designer unveiled a new brand strategy for the Milan-based group, revealing his decision to cease the Armani Collezioni and Armani Jeans brands and use only the\u00a0Giorgio Armani<\/a>, Emporio Armani<\/a>\u00a0and A|X Armani Exchange monikers, effective with the spring 2018 season, adapting to the increasingly changing and competitive market. He launched his couture line, Armani Priv\u00e9, in 2005, generally shown in Paris.<\/p>\n \n\tIn 2020, as COVID-19 was ravaging the world, Armani penned an open letter to WWD reflecting on the absurdity of the state of fashion back then, \u201cwith the overproduction of garments and a criminal nonalignment between the weather and the commercial season,\u201d asking for a \u201ccourageous and necessary\u201d shift.<\/p>\n \n\tIn 2021, due to the worsening of the pandemic, he made a courageous and trailblazing decision to cancel both his Giorgio and Emporio men\u2019s fall 2022 shows slated to be held in Milan, holding them behind closed doors, as well as his Priv\u00e9 show in Paris in January the following year. The designer generously made donations up to 2 million euros to Italy\u2019s Civil Protection and a range of Italian hospitals and institutions in the country, and converted his manufacturing sites to produce single-use smocks for the protection of health care providers. He took a full-page ad in more than 60 newspapers in Italy, writing a letter to all of the health care providers strenuously fighting the\u00a0coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0outbreak and musing on his own desire as a young man to become a doctor.<\/p>\n \n\tFrom the beginning, Armani singlemindedly and sure-handedly championed a modern wardrobe based on an unstuffy and uncontrived aesthetic that earned him a wide and loyal customer base, from the corporate world through to Hollywood A-listers and artists including Sophia Loren, Robert De Niro, Cate Blanchett, Tom Cruise, Glenn Close, George Clooney, Tina Turner and Jodie Foster, to name a few.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tActor Richard Gere shows designer Giorgio Armani his suit label, as guests watch the exchange, with socialite Lee Radziwill.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWWD<\/p>\n \n\tEven though he had started his brand years before, Armani really rocketed to international fame in 1980 by dressing Richard Gere for the title role in \u201cAmerican Gigolo\u201d and he went on to become one of the first go-to designers for stars attending the Oscars.<\/p>\n \n\tThe energetic and overachieving designer, and hands-on manager of his company, built his name into one with a value that ranks among Coca-Cola and Microsoft in Interbrand\u2019s annual listings. \u201cOnly I know what I want and my message has to be consistent from beginning to end,\u201d he told WWD in 2005.<\/p>\n \n\tYet Armani spurned the overtures of deep-pocketed investors that clamored for his company during the luxury sector\u2019s acquisition spree in the late \u201990s. He preferred to be his own boss and learned to be a shrewd businessman, especially after the 1985 death of his companion and business partner Sergio Galeotti.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt came as a surprise to me that Giorgio was such a strong businessman in addition to being a talented designer,\u201d said Nino Cerruti, in a 2005 interview celebrating Armani\u2019s 30th anniversary.<\/p>\n \n\tForever clad in jeans and a fitted blue T-shirt to show off his taut, gym-toned physique, Armani worked for Cerruti in the early stages of his career, researching fabrics and trends and designing ties and shirts. Once he set out on his own, Armani expanded his company with the tenacity and meticulousness that characterized his career from Day One.<\/p>\n \n\tArmani\u2019s mother Maria played a great role in his life and influenced his sense of fashion to the point that his two yachts bore her nicknames, Mariu and Ma\u00ecn. She died in 2001. \u201cShe was never a particularly gushy or emotional person; she was quite reserved. She just said, \u2018Bello\u2019 when she saw the first collections,\u201d Armani said of his mother. His father, pap\u00e0 Ugo, a shipping manager who worked hard to support his family, died in the early \u201960s.<\/p>\n \n\tIn 1950, Armani moved to Milan, a place he remembers thinking of as a big, scary city, to study medicine, but he threw in the towel after two years to become an assistant buyer for La Rinascente, Milan\u2019s top department store, where he started creating eye-catching store windows.\u00a0His first hands-on fashion design experience came between 1964 and 1970, when he landed a job at Hitman, Nino Cerruti\u2019s men\u2019s clothing line. In 1972, Armani and Galeotti opened a studio on Corso Venezia. To furnish the two modest rooms, they used the money they made by selling a car.<\/p>\n \n\tAfter designing his first collection in 1974, Armani and Galeotti founded Giorgio Armani SpA in 1975, forging a formidable team and creating their own label of men and women\u2019s ready-to-wear.<\/p>\n \n\tWhile Armani suffered emotionally from Galeotti\u2019s premature death, his business acumen and focus hardly faltered as the company gained momentum in the \u201980s thanks in large part to the lucrative licenses he signed with the now-defunct storied Italian manufacturer Gruppo Finanziario Tessile.<\/p>\n \n\tThis new undertaking, which soon evolved into an inspirational new business paradigm for other firms, launched Armani Le Collezioni and Emporio Armani. Armani was also among the first to understand the importance of licensing details in such key categories as his booming beauty and fragrance division, and forged a formidable partnership with L\u2019Or\u00e9al.<\/p>\n \n\tHe unveiled his first Giorgio Armani women\u2019s fragrance in 1982 and today boasts a dizzying 40-plus scents between men and women for the various lines. He also has a bestselling color cosmetics and skin care line. \u201cI\u2019m very involved in every activity of my business, including the fragrance and cosmetics projects. I love the challenge of creating [something] new. It is never that easy, but always rewarding in the end,\u201d was Armani\u2019s mantra when creating a new product.<\/p>\n \n\tMeticulous, frugal and involved in all aspects of the business, Armani put his stamp of approval on everything from skirt lengths and the flowers strewn around at gala dinners to the colors of the curtains in the offices. Whenever he made an appearance on a photo set or at an event, you could hear his nervous staff murmuring \u201cSta arrivando,\u201d referring to Armani\u2019s imminent arrival. And the air instantly filled with tension.<\/p>\n \n\tHis passion for sports \u2013 and\u00a0basketball\u00a0in particular \u2013 \u00a0translated into ongoing partnerships\u00a0\u00a0with the Italian Olympic and Paralympic teams, dressing them for several Olympic and Paralympic Games through his EA7 Emporio Armani line.\u00a0The brand is also the technical outfitter for Italy\u2019s winter sports athletes, a partnership extending to the 2026 Winter Games.\u00a0In addition, Armani owns the Olimpia Milano basketball team, which has been sponsored by the EA7 Emporio Armani line. Last month,\u00a0the Milan-based fashion powerhouse announced that it has designed the formal wardrobe for\u00a0Juventus<\/a>, one of Italy\u2019s historic and most endeared\u00a0soccer<\/a>\u00a0clubs.<\/p>\n \n\tThe partnership includes a selection of Giorgio\u00a0Armani<\/a>\u00a0suits created to accompany the men\u2019s first-team players on all official off-pitch occasions throughout the 2025-26 and 2026-27 soccer seasons. \n\tA workaholic, Armani would occasionally indulge in la dolce vita: sailing on his Ma\u00ecn yacht, entertaining at his holiday home on the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria, dining with family at Nobu inside his Milan Via Manzoni Emporio Armani megastore or spending a quiet night at home watching one of his favorite films, such as Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s \u201cNotorious.\u201d He launched his home and interior design line Casa in 2000, and counted beautiful houses in Antigua; Saint Moritz; Tuscany\u2019s beach resort Forte dei Marmi; Saint-Tropez, and Broni, near his hometown of Piacenza.<\/p>\n \n\tBut he always worked tirelessly and passionately \u2014 admitting in his later years that he had sacrificed his own personal life for the company \u2014 and was only once forced to publicly explain he was recovering from an illness. That was in 2009, when he said he had suffered a case of hepatitis.<\/p>\n \n\tWhatever the event, Armani was bound to be there early, checking that everything was shipshape, which made it a dream for a reporter eager to carve out some alone time before the rush of visitors and well-wishers.<\/p>\n \n\tJust as his fellow fashion greats Saint Laurent, Valentino, Cristobal Balenciaga, Chanel and Dior did, Armani struck a new fashion chord when he launched his signature label. In fact, the Maestro paved the way for Italian ready-to-wear and the Made in Italy brands when he showed his first menswear collection in 1974. His womenswear collection, introduced in 1975, quickly became known for easy shapes and masculine cuts with feminine qualities. Since uptight styles and ornate detailing weren\u2019t up his alley, Armani pursued a less-is-more template of deconstructed suits, fashioned in fluid fabrics such as viscose and wool crepes.<\/p>\n \n\tWhile he sometimes dared shots of strong color like orange and fuchsia, the word \u201cgreige\u201d was devised to describe his color palette of muted shades of grays, taupes and beiges. His fashions came at a time when women were climbing the rungs of the corporate ladder and needed to dress accordingly. But instead of overwrought banker\u2019s pinstripes, Armani did it his way, delivering formality in a softer and more feminine manner. He said he wanted women \u201cto wear jackets like men without losing anything of their feminine allure.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tDesigner Giorgio Armani adjusts fashion on model Pat Cleveland backstage during presentation of selections from his fall 1978 collection and first Fur Collection, the latter which is exclusive to Bergdorf Goodmn and Neiman Marcus.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDarleen Rubin\/Fairchild Archive<\/p>\n \n\tIn more recent years, fleeting trends and other fashion antics sometimes sidetracked Armani, especially on the runway, where aviator hats or tricky pants\u00a0\u2014 from bloomers to loose, low-crotch styles \u2014 won him barbs from critics. When he tried to blaze new trails, the designer felt haunted by the damned-if-you-don\u2019t, damned-if-you-do syndrome. Once, in the early \u201990s, he showed pouf silhouettes that raised eyebrows. \u201cI loved them, but people said, \u2018Well, it\u2019s pretty, but it\u2019s not Armani,\u2019\u201d he said at the time. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to convince these people that, even if it\u2019s not Armani, it must be done.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBut when Armani had something to say, he didn\u2019t hold back. Self-assured and temperamental, he never refrained from slamming his colleagues, who in his eyes generated more dash than cash. He often took the gloves off with the press, developing a love-hate relationship. On the one hand, he used the media to broadcast his new projects or vent his frustrations with the industry and designers that he accused of turning fashion into a circus. On the other, he criticized the press for dedicating too many pages to unwearable designs.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThere was always that desire to shock by showing a bare behind \u2014 a cheap trick that will only make people speak badly about fashion. I\u2019m sure it will make a lot of magazine covers, but where is the fashion in it?\u201d he once asked.<\/p>\n \n\tHe could be supportive of other designers, however. In 2013, Armani decided to start helping young designers, making his theater on Via Bergognone available to the likes of Andrea Pompilio, Stella Jean and Ricostru,\u00a0Julian Zigerli, Au Jour le Jour\u2019s\u00a0Diego Marquez\u00a0and\u00a0Mirko Fontana,\u00a0Christian Pellizzari,\u00a0Angelos Bratis and Edmund Ooi providing them with added visibility and a sprawling show space.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAnd while Armani took pride in making clothes that sold and left nudity and vulgarity to others, he was nevertheless one of the most recognizable faces in the industry. \u201cI\u2019m only just now getting used to being called king, but if someone wants to call me an emperor, that\u2019s fine by me,\u201d he joked in 2004.<\/p>\n \n\tIn general, he thoroughly enjoyed the attention when he mingled with his customers and fans, to the point that, when he opened the Armani Priv\u00e9 lounge in Milan, he was known to swing by for drinks and chat up patrons.<\/p>\n \n\tIndeed, Armani\u2019s hospitality projects were almost as groundbreaking as his fashions. He was among the first designers \u2014 along with Ralph Lauren \u2014 to break into restaurants, furniture and interiors as well as apparel. Armani took it a step farther, however, linking with Emaar Properties to develop luxurious Armani Hotels and Resorts around the globe, a venture formed in 2005.\u00a0The first opened in 2010, occupying eight floors of the world\u2019s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The sumptuous 160-room hotel boasts eight restaurants, a spa and three retail outlets.<\/p>\n \n\tIn 2011, an Armani Hotel opened in Milan, leaving a further, permanent mark on the city that houses his headquarters. \u201cI like the idea of being remembered not only for my clothes, and I like to bring an element of luxury that adds prestige to the city,\u201d the designer said upon the opening. \u201cI love the Milanese and their sincere and direct approach. We hired 200 employees to work at the hotel. This is what I would like to happen going forward, for young people to find a job.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tGiorgio Armani<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStephen Sullivan\/WWD<\/p>\n \n\tThe Milan hotel is opposite the city\u2019s prestigious Via Montenapoleone shopping street, and near the La Scala Theater and is located in the 1937 building that also houses Armani\u2019s Via Manzoni flagship. The latest Armani hotel being built is in Diriyah, a 300-year-old site located a 15-minute drive from Riyadh, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n \n\tIn 1996, the designer raised a big Emporio Armani sign over a hangar at Linate \u2014 a genius stroke of branding in the pre-social media age with hundreds of millions of passenger eyeballs locking on it \u2014 and still doing so \u2014 as they taxi into, and out of, Linate. In September 2018, Armani decided to hold his coed Emporio show in that hanger, ending it with a performance by Robbie Williams for a crowd that numbered 2,300, including members of the public who won tickets to the event.<\/p>\n \n\tIn 2006, Armani launched his One Night Only extravaganza, often showing his couture Priv\u00e9 collections and traveling through London in 2006; Tokyo in 2007; Beijing in 2012; Rome and New York in 2013;\u00a0Paris\u00a0in 2014; Dubai in 2021, and in Venice in 2023.<\/p>\n \n\tIn October last year, the designer flew to New York<\/a>\u00a0to celebrate the opening of his company\u2019s new building on Madison Avenue, entirely redesigned to include residential units, an Armani\/Ristorante and the new\u00a0Giorgio Armani<\/a>\u00a0and Armani\/Casa boutiques.\u00a0Coinciding with the unveiling, Armani decided to parade his namesake brand\u2019s spring 2025 collection in New York and not in Milan.<\/p>\n \n\tIn 2015, marking his company\u2019s 40th anniversary, he unveiled his Armani Silos exhibition space \u2014 walking tirelessly up and down the four levels of the 48,600-square-foot building, in a restored granary of the Nestl\u00e9 company and constructed in 1950. Armani, whose Tadao Ando-designed theater stands on the opposite side of the street, conceived and oversaw the renovation project himself. The building is modeled after a basilica layout, an open space four floors high with two levels of naves overlooking it on either side. The ceilings are painted black in contrast to the gray cement floors.<\/p>\n \n\tIn addition to his own designs, Silos presented over the years exhibitions of photos by the likes of Larry Fink and Sarah Moon. He also launched the Filmaking Workshop at Silos, offered free of charge, which will allow participants to produce a short\u00a0film, partnering with the likes of Luca Guadagnino.<\/p>\n \n\tArmani\u2019s achievements earned him a string of high-profile awards that started with the Neiman Marcus Fashion Award in 1979 and included two of Italy\u2019s highest honors \u2014 the Commendatore dell\u2019Ordine al Merito della Repubblica and Grand\u2019Ufficiale dell\u2019Ordine al Merito della Repubblica.\u00a0Others on the long list include the CFDA\u2019s Best International Designer and Lifetime Achievement Award for menswear and for art and fashion, while, in 2006, he was awarded an honorary degree from London\u2019s Central Saint Martin\u2019s College and one in industrial design from the Politecnico of Milan. In 2008, French President Nicholas Sarkozy gave Armani the Legion d\u2019Honneur. In 2019, WWD bestowed him the John B.\u00a0Fairchild Honor award, named after WWD\u2019s legendary publisher who was a longtime and ardent supporter of Armani \u2014 even wearing his clothes for years.<\/p>\n \n\tArmani also served as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and in 2003, he was honored on the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated 2:47 p.m. ET Sept. 4 MILAN \u2014 Italy\u2019s fashion king is dead. 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Armani has been infusing his sartorial fair into the global soccer arena since 1994, starting with the World Cup and later created the uniforms for the Italian national soccer team for the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.
Over the decades, the company has also designed the official uniforms for the English national team, Newcastle United, Chelsea and Bayern Munich soccer teams. In 2021, Giorgio Armani debuted Emporio Armani off-field uniforms for Italy\u2019s national soccer team, as part of the company\u2019s\u00a0four-year deal with the Italian Soccer Federation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n