The world lost a giant today … He made history and will be remembered forever,” said Donatella Versace as she led tributes to the king of Italian fashion, Giorgio Armani, who died “peacefully” at age 91 on Sept. 4. “Indefatigable to the end,” his company, The Armani Group, wrote in a statement, “he worked until his final days.”
Poignantly, his passing came just weeks before the milestone 50th anniversary of his iconic brand at Milan Fashion Week.
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
Born in 1934 in the northern Italian city of Piacenza, Giorgio later reflected that, despite their limited means, his parents “possessed an inner elegance that shone through” in the clothes his mother made for him and his two siblings. “We looked rich, even though we were poor,” he recalled.
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