Fashion designer Giorgio Armani has died, aged 91
Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has died at the age of 91, confirmation of his passing annouced by the Armani Group in a statement late Thursday night.
The statement reads: “Il Signor Armani, as he was always respectfully and admiringly called by employees and collaborators, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his loved ones.”
A creative force to be reckoned with, Giorgio has broadly been celebrated in the fashion world, renowned for his high quality designs and classic aesthetic. If a fashionista or celebrity wished to be dressed in a timeless, classic outfit, Armani was the man they’d turn to.
Born in 1934, in the town of Piacenza in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy, in a modest household during World War II, Giorgio Armani initially pursued a career in medicine, enrolling in the University of Milan.
Three years into his medical degree, he left uni and got a job as a window dresser at the Milan department store La Rinascente. This position introduced him to the world of fashion, and he quickly progressed to working as a designer for the menswear label Cerruti in the 1960s. His ability to refine and modernise classic men’s tailoring earned him respect within the industry and laid the foundation for his signature style.
In 1975, Armani co-founded his own fashion label with his partner, Sergio Galeotti. His debut collection marked a dramatic shift in men’s fashion – softening traditional suiting with unstructured jackets and neutral colour palettes. His “power suit” look became iconic in the 1980s, as famously worn by Richard Gere in American Gigolo (1980).
Armani also managed to make some of the most beautiful and wonderful women in the world even more beautiful and wonderful with his designs paying respect to the feminine and the feminist in one fell suit.
Actors and actresses, musicians and models have expressed gratitude online to a man who knew as well as they did that classicism never goes out of style, and nor should it. At the very least, the classic wardrobe helps salvage the world from landfill.
Hardworking right toward the end, Armani was visibly upset in June 2025 when he could not be present to take his usual bow at the brand’s show in Milan as he was “recovering at home” without specifying his health condition.
Quintessentially Italian, Giorgio Armani was as stylish as the garments he’d see make the runway, each as keepable as the next. By the time ‘vintage’ fashion came about, the designer’s label became one of the most coveted.
Armani’s cause of death has not been revealed, but it has been reported that he was surrounded by family and friends, and died peacefully at home.
The Armani legacy, label and subsidiary brands will continue, with the Armani group stating: “In this company, we have always felt like part of a family … We feel the void left by the one who founded and nurtured this family with vision, passion, and dedication. But it is precisely in his spirit that we, the employees and the family members who have always worked alongside Mr. Armani, commit to protecting what he built and to carrying his company forward in his memory, with respect, responsibility and love.”
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