The creator of world fame had health problems for a long time.
Miami, United States. – Giorgio Armani, Italian designer and founder of the Armani group, died Thursday in Milan at age 91, according to the fashion house. “With deep regret, the Armani group announces the death of its creator, founder and tireless driver: Giorgio Armani,” He communicated the firm.
“‘Il Signor Armani’, as they always called with respect and admiration its employees and collaborators, died in peace, surrounded by their loved ones. In tanning until the end, he worked until his last days, dedicated to the company, to the collections and the numerous in progress and future projects,” says the obituary.
According to BBC News Mundothe Creator had health problems for a long time and last June his condition forced him, for the first time in his career, to absent from the parades of the male fashion week in Milan. The country recalled that the previous Saturday posed on the cover of HTSI (Supplement of Financial Times) and cited his words about those absences: “Everything was done under my attention, by videoconference. My great weakness is that I control everything.”
Recognized for transforming contemporary tailoring, Armani “reinvented the suit, feminizing it for men and popularizing it for women,” said BBC News Mundo, who described him as “the first postmodern designer.” Armani himself explained his reading of social change with the incorporation of women into salaried work: “I realized that they needed a way of dressing equivalent to that of men.” “Something that gave them dignity in their working life,” he added.
His influence was amplified with Hollywood. In 1978 he signed an agreement with GFT to produce prêt-à-porter On a large scale and, shortly after, he wore Richard Gere in American Gigolo (1980), marketing milestone that consolidated its aesthetics. The country He also stressed that he was “the first Italian designer who conquered the contemporary Hollywood industry”, with iconic images that included George Clooney in red carpets and costumes for The untouchables of Eliot Ness.
Armani built a global group that, according to BBC News Mundo, “today invoices about 2.7 billion dollars a year” and diversified towards beauty, fragrances, sport, music and luxury hospitality.
Born in Piacenza on July 11, 1934, Armani grew marked by the postwar period. As a child, he was about to die when a projectile broke out with which he played: “The war,” I would say later, “he taught me not everything glamorous.” After a step by Medicine and the Army, he formed in the workshop: he started as an exhaust out in the rinant and became an expert in fabrics before working with Nino Cerruti.
In 1966 he met Sergio Galeotti, who prompted him to become independent. Galeotti’s death by AIDS In 1985 he hit him deeply. Armani considered retiring, but decided to continue so as not to “abandon all Sergio’s hopes.” From there, he strengthened a legacy that covered initiatives such as the opening of the Armani Hotel at the Khalifa Burj (Dubai, 2010), the prohibition of low -weight models after the death of Ana Carolina Reston in 2006, and sports collaborations with Chelsea, the English team and the Italian Olympic team in 2012, according to the BBC.
His career included friction with the power of fashion. In 2014 he held a public dispute with Anna Wintour for his absence in a launch.
About the future of the company, The country He informed that the designer’s intention was to leave “an orderly succession in the hands of his eternal right hand, the designer Leo Dell’orco, and his closest collaborators and relatives”, and pointed out that the independence of the group “could be reviewed” after his death.
The Creator himself summed up his aesthetic search and professional rigor in a phrase: “I am never satisfied (…). In fact, as someone always dissatisfied and obsessive in his search for perfection, I never surrender to the results I want.”
