The legendary designer leaves behind an indelible mark on world fashion.

In a hushed, almost modest silence - true to his nature - Giorgio Armani passed away at the age of 91. With him, the world lost far more than a fashion designer: a symbol of Italian style, a master of pure lines, a craftsman of timeless elegance. The world has lost a man, but fashion has lost a king - a discreet sovereign whose reign required no crown, only a perfectly tailored jacket.
Born in Piacenza in 1934, Armani grew up between the hardships of the postwar years and the blue waters of the Trebbia River, in a countryside he never forgot. &ldquo;I will always remain attached to that world,&rdquo; he once confided, with the calm lucidity that defined him throughout his life. From an early age, he understood the price of freedom and never ceased to believe in democracy and in the importance of remembering the past in order to build a dignified future.
Before becoming the icon we know today, Giorgio Armani studied medicine in Milan. But in 1957, he abandoned his studies to join La Rinascente as a window dresser. This first encounter with visual staging proved decisive: his eye was trained, his sensitivity revealed, and his taste refined. He was reserved, even fiercely shy - &ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t shy, I was extremely shy,&rdquo; he admitted - yet imbued with a rare, almost innate aesthetic sensibility.
In the 1960s, while collaborating with Nino Cerruti, Armani honed his skills in menswear. Then, in 1975, he founded his own fashion house, Giorgio Armani S.p.A. The legend was set in motion. The following year, he introduced a women&rsquo;s line. His style quickly struck a chord: clean lines, soft fabrics, sober colors. A quiet revolution was taking shape.
If Armani could be embodied in a single garment, it would be the famous deconstructed jacket. Born in the mid-1970s, it broke away from the rigid codes of classic tailoring. Unlined and unstructured, it followed the body without constraining it. It became the emblem of a generation entering the professional world without renouncing its identity. Neither strictly masculine nor feminine, this jacket was as much a cultural statement as an aesthetic one.
Armani soon conquered Hollywood. In 1978, Diane Keaton wore one of his creations to the Oscars. In 1980, he dressed Richard Gere in American Gigolo - a stroke of genius that brought men&rsquo;s fashion into the age of modern glamour. In 1982, Time magazine named him &ldquo;Man of the Year.&rdquo; That same year, his fashion house generated 170 billion lire: the Armani label had become a global institution.

His style? A tribute to black-and-white cinema, to America in the 1920s and &rsquo;30s, to deep grays, to greige (the shade between gray and beige), to Armani blue&mdash;to that muted yet eloquent form of elegance. He also drew inspiration from the Orient: cuts reminiscent of the djellaba, Mandarin collars, noble yet understated fabrics. He dressed the body, but touched the soul.
In the 1980s, he created Emporio Armani, a younger, bolder line. In 2000, he launched Armani Casa, transposing his aesthetic into the world of interior design with pure lines, Art Deco accents, and Asian influences. And the Armani empire continued to expand: restaurants, hotels, concept stores&mdash;each project an ode to elegance.
His creations dressed the world&rsquo;s biggest stars: Madonna, Lady Gaga, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Julia Roberts, Christian Bale, Laura Pausini, Tom Cruise. They all called him &ldquo;Giorgio&rdquo;&mdash;not out of casual familiarity, but because he was one of those rare figures who inspired respect through simplicity.
His influence extended far beyond the runway. Armani was a builder, a visionary, an ambassador of Made in Italy. He received some of the highest honors&mdash;the L&eacute;gion d&rsquo;Honneur, recognition from the Guggenheim, and an honorary fellowship from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York&mdash;yet he never strayed from his guiding principle: to pursue beauty with humility, without ever giving in to frivolity.

Today, the fashion world mourns a master. Yet Giorgio Armani&rsquo;s legacy endures. It lives on in every flowing jacket, in every free-spirited silhouette, in every look that pursues elegance rather than mere appearances.
Farewell, Giorgio. Your style will live on just as you always intended: discreet, impeccable, eternal.

Giorgio Armani Dies at 91: Farewell to the Master of Italian Elegance

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