Actors and fashion heavyweights including Ralph Lauren, Anna Wintour and Victoria Beckham honour the Italian designer
“I have always had the deepest respect and admiration for Giorgio Armani, not only as a designer who never strayed from his vision, but as a man who loved his family and friends, and his homeland in such a special way. Though he was an icon of the world of fashion, he lived with great humility and a love of living that inspired the way he worked and the way he lived. He created a world reflecting all the things he loved with a foreverness that will be his legacy,” the American designer said in a statement.
“I still can’t believe it. I mean, I was just told like 20 minutes ago that he had passed and I did not even know he was in ill health. And I did not think of him as that old, you know. For me, he was like eternal – this brilliant, kind man who was so talented and created this whole kind of sophisticated, understated glamour that really defined the 90s in a way. And he discovered me at the Venice Film Festival when Mighty Aphrodite premiered there and asked if I could, if he could dress me. And he started dressing me then. I wore his beautiful designs to most of my most important moments in my career and in my personal life. … I will really miss him and I think the world will miss him,” the actor said in an interview, recounting how Armani made her a retro-glam Oscar dress and her wedding dress.
