Aprivate funeral was held for Giorgio Armani on Monday in the province of Piacenza town of Rivalta where he grew up after the great Italian fashion designer died at the age of 91 on Thursday.
A day of mourning was declared in Italy's fashion-and-business capital Milan, where around 16,000 people paid their respect to Armani as he lay in state at the city's Teatro/Armani on Saturday and Sunday.
Armani stores closed at 15:00 on Monday as a sign of respect to the fashion house's founder.
"Giorgio Armani was the guardian of the garden of beauty created by God," said Giuseppe Busani, the parish priest of Rivalta's San Martino church, before presiding over the funeral.
"He experienced it with the noble simplicity that characterized him.
