Overview

• Thousands queued at Via Bergognone 59 to file past the closed coffin, with more than 6,000 visitors by Saturday evening and VIPs including Donatella Versace and Mayor Giuseppe Sala in attendance.
• The viewing chamber featured white flowers, carabinieri honor guards, flickering lanterns and Ludovico Einaudi’s piano music, with Armani’s parting message projected behind the casket.
• The public viewing runs through Sunday before a private burial on Monday, and Milan has declared the funeral day a day of mourning.
• Armani’s fashion house said he worked to the end, and the Giorgio Armani 50th‑anniversary show is scheduled to close Milan Fashion Week later this month as a posthumous tribute.
• The company has not disclosed a cause of death; Italy’s Corriere della Sera reported liver problems and a June hospitalization, and family and longtime colleagues have pledged to carry the independent group forward.