Overview
- In the ad he wrote that “it was not easy for me not to hear your applause live” and said he had “felt the embrace of those who thought of me.”
- Armani’s hospitalization in late June and early July marked the first time in his career that he missed his own runway shows in Milan and Paris.
- He concluded his birthday message with a promise to personally return to the runway at his brand’s September presentations.
- Armani founded Giorgio Armani SpA with Sergio Galeotti in the mid-1970s and has owned it outright since Galeotti’s death in 1985.
- Today the privately held empire employs about 9,250 people, operates over 2,000 stores and generates more than €2.3 billion in annual sales, while Armani’s personal fortune is estimated at €7 billion.