Overview

• Mourners queued in Milan on Saturday to file past Armani’s closed coffin at the Teatro Armani, with public viewing hours set from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
• A private funeral in Milan is planned for Monday, with details kept confidential by the family and the company.
• Donatella Versace and Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala were among early visitors, as staff and the public paid respects in a candlelit hall with a carabinieri honor guard.
• Online interest in archival pieces jumped after his death, with Vinted searches nearly tripling, The RealReal reporting a 212% rise in Armani searches, and Google Trends showing a spike for “vintage Armani.”
• Succession attention centers on longtime collaborator Leo Dell’Orco and relatives Silvana and Roberta Armani and Andrea Camerana under the Giorgio Armani Foundation’s governance, while the company has not disclosed a cause of death amid Italian press reports of liver failure.