{"id":43422,"date":"2025-09-04T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/43422\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:02:08","slug":"giorgio-armani-italian-fashion-designer-dies-aged-91-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/43422\/","title":{"rendered":"Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer, dies aged 91 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Italian fashion designer Giorgio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/armani\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/armani\/\">Armani<\/a> has died, the company said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">\u201cWith infinite sorrow, the Armani Group announces the passing of its creator, founder and tireless driving force: Giorgio Armani,\u201d the fashion house said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Armani, who was 91, was synonymous with modern Italian style and elegance. He combined the flair of the designer with the acumen of a businessman, running a company that turned over some \u20ac2.3 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He had been unwell for some time, and was forced to drop out of his group\u2019s shows at Milan\u2019s Men\u2019s Fashion Week in June, the first time in his career that he had missed one of his catwalk events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Known as \u201cRe Giorgio\u201d \u2013 King Giorgio \u2013 the designer was known for overseeing every detail of his collection and every aspect of his business, from advertising to fixing models\u2019 hair as they head out on to the runway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A funeral chamber will be set up on Saturday and Sunday in Milan, the company said, followed by a private funeral at an unspecified date. \u2013 Reuters <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has died, the company said on Thursday. \u201cWith infinite sorrow, the Armani Group&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[32701,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-43422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-armani","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}