Acting
Giorgio Armani
Born 1934-07-11 · Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Giorgio Armani (July 11, 1934 – September 4, 2025) was an Italian fashion designer, particularly noted for his menswear. He was known today for his clean, tailored lines. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, and by 2001 was acclaimed as the most successful designer to come out of Italy, with an annual turnover of $1.6 billion and a personal fortune of $7 billion as of 2012. Born in northern Italy, Armani originally studied medicine at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart before leaving the field of medicine after working in a hospital during his military service. After leaving the military, Armani started in fashion a window dresser at La Rinascente, a department store in Milan before quickly climbing store ranks. In the mid-1960s, Armani moved to the Nino Cerruti company, for which he designed menswear over the next decade while also freelancing for up to ten manufacturers. In 1973, he open a design office in Milan, leading to great personal success and networking among Italy’s fashion elite, leading him to found the Giorgio Armani Spa in Milan with his friend Galeotti, and presenting collections under his own name for the first time. In 1979, after founding the Giorgio Armani Corporation, Armani began producing for the United States, where the label became a leading names in international fashion introduced several new product lines. These successes would lead him to numerous commercial deals with notable fashion and beauty houses, such as L’Oreal. By the early 90s, Armani expanded his talents to cinema, both for personal and financial reasons. Designing costumes for more than one hundred films, including American Gigolo and The Untouchables, Armani quickly established himself as a go-to designer for Hollywood. Armani designed made-to-measure suits for Christian Bale's character Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight and subsequent “Giorgio Armani for Bruce Wayne” collections in 2008. His brand continues to succeed in the new century, with recognition for artistic merits, profitable commercial partnerships, and public work such as designing uniforms for Olympic Athletes.
Acting credits
6.9Documentary about British fashion designer Ozwald Boateng.
A Man's Story
2011
6.5Film which travels inside the singular world of one of Italy's most famous fashion designers, Valentino Garavani, documenting the colourful and dramatic closing act of his celebrated career and capturing the end of an era in global fashion. However, at the heart of the film is a love story - the unique relationship between Valentino and his business partner and companion of 50 years, Giancarlo Giammetti. Capturing intimate moments in the lives of two of Italy's richest and most famous men, the film lifts the curtain on the final act of a nearly 50-year reign at the top of the glamorous and fiercely competitive world of fashion. (Storyville)
Valentino: The Last Emperor
2008
5.6A documentary focused on former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief and fashion stylist Carine Roitfeld.
Mademoiselle C
2013
NRThe world of fashion, between the end of the Sixties and the beginning of the Noughties, had a key character that embodied its spirit and told the tale: journalist Anna Piaggi, living witness of that contamination between art, society and culture that changed fashion and sanctioned its success on a global scale. The daughter of a manager for La Rinascente (Milan's iconic high-end shopping mall whose foundation goes back to 1865), Karl Lagerfeld's muse, "a poet with her clothes" in the words of Bill Cunningham, her life is retraced through interviews with designers (Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Stephen Jones, Manolo Blahnik, and more) together with archival images from four decades of fashion history.
Anna Piaggi: Fashion Visionary
2016
7.8A documentary following Christy Turlington and other models during spring fashion week in Milan, Paris and New York.
Catwalk
1995
6.1As he prepares for a show, fashion designer Giorgio Armani discusses his principles of fashion, his family history and the city of Milan.
Made in Milan
1990
6.0Documentary exploring the formidable life and career of Italian film star Sophia Loren. With interviews with the actress herself, as well as thoughts from colleagues and admirers, including Woody Allen.
Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
2007
NRA private look at the fall 1994 fashion collections in Paris.
La Machine Mode
1994
NRNine famous photographers from the world of fashion and the new talents of 1998 tackle the upcoming edition of the prestigious magazine Vogue Italia, in and around the majestic cadre of Castle Square, Piazza Castello, No. 27, Turin, Italy.
27 Piazza Castello
1998
NRThe professional life of Roxanne Lowit, one of the greatest fashion photographers and a pioneer of backstage photography, covering her career from 1977 and the Studio 54 until now.
Roxanne Lowit Magic Moments
2016
'Giorgio Armani: A Man for All Seasons' is an unusual portrait of the world-renowned fashion designer Giorgio Armani. Usually avoiding the public eye, the Italian provides a close personal look into his private life in this documentary, taking viewers on a behind-the-scenes tour of the fashion runways.
Giorgio Armani: A Man for All Seasons
2003
6.1It's the most mythic of all American emporiums - and the scene of many an ultimate fashion fantasy. Now audiences get a rarified chance to peek behind the backroom doors and into the reality of the fascinating inner workings and fabulous untold stories from Bergdorf Goodman's iconic history in Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's.
Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's
2013