Designer Giorgio Armani has passed away today, September 4, 2025, at the age of 91. With him goes an era of Italian chic fashion that can never be recaptured.
The Italian designer established his company in 1975, bringing Italian sleekness to the world through clothing, fragrances and more. He pushed red carpet fashion into the mainstream, proliferating gowns and silhouettes starlets and actors still rely on today. Just this past week, Armani Privé dominated headlines at the Venice Film Festival, 50 years past his first menswear collection in Milan.
In a statement to the press, the Armani Group said: "Il Signor Armani, as he was always respectfully and admiringly called by employees and collaborators, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his loved ones. Indefatigable to the end, he worked until his final days, dedicating himself to the company, the collections, and the many ongoing and future projects.”
The work he poured himself into during his final days will live on forever, having helped pioneer the concept of "sleek and chic" that defined Italian fashion for decades. He is remembered as ruthlessly dedicated to the female form in fashion, glamor, and the suiting that came to be synonymous with menswear himself. That the signature cool of the Armani brand crossed the rigid boundaries of menswear and womenswear at all is testament to his impact on the industry, let alone utility of fashion in pop culture.
Below is just a sampling of the many images of Armani and his muses that live on in the Getty Archives, arranged below by subject and vibe.
The massive group portrait of Italian designers from 1977 is particular notable, including many familiar names and faces: Walter Albini for Trell, Jean Baptiste Caumont, Mariuccia Mandelli for Krizia, Muriel Grateau for Mario Valentino, Giorgio Armani, Anna Fendi, Tai and Rosita Missoni, Aldo Ferrante and Gianni Versace for Callaghan Complice
And here's a photo of him with Lil' Kim.
Here he is surrounded by his many Armani men, each in their own way a harbinger for the types that soon rock his clothes around the world.
The image that stood out to me most in the hundreds of Getty pages I clicked through today, however, is this. He stands with a model he's just draped in an eternal roll of fabric, check and print stretching out past the camera into eternity. His face is solemn, composed, while she seems close to fainting from the glamor threatening to overwhelm everything.
Rest in peace, Giorgio Armani. Make sure the angel's speedos are extra tight and chic up there.
Photos via Getty
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