Celebs Attend Giorgio Armani Style Present in Milan Weeks After Designer’s Loss of life

Celebrities got here collectively at Milan Style Week to rejoice Giorgio Armani simply weeks after information of the namesake designer’s Sept. 4 loss of life.

The Giorgio Armani Spring/Summer season 2026 present came about on Sunday, Sept. 28, and was attended by many celebrities on the Pinacoteca di Brera museum. It closed out the circuit of ready-to-wear displays and concluded the fiftieth anniversary occasions for the Italian vogue home.

Cate Blanchett, Glenn Shut, Lauren Hutton, Spike Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, Richard Gere, Alejandra Silva, Anna Wintour, Leslie Bibb and extra movie star buddies of Armani, 91, attended his model’s vogue present.

Jackson, 76, beforehand paid tribute to Armani on the day he died.

“Thanks, Mr. Giorgio Armani, in your numerous years of friendship, collaboration and dedication to your visionary craft. Could GOD BLESS YOU as you might be welcomed into everlasting peace. 🙏🏾,” the actor wrote on Instagram.

As for the present itself, the Giorgio Armani model described its essence in a sequence of Instagram captions posted on present day.

“Suspended in anticipation, these silhouettes carry the emotional cost of what’s about to be revealed,” the model wrote. “With textures formed by sea mild and hues echoing mineral warmth, every⁣ look anticipates … drawn between shadow and brilliance, every silhouette turns into a passage towards the disclosing of the Giorgio Armani Spring Summer season 2026 Girls’s Style Present at Pinacoteca di Brera.⁣”

Giorgio Armani kicked off festivities on Aug. 30 on the Venice Movie Pageant with the launch of its digital archive website, Armani/Archivio, and an accompanying A-list dinner attended by Blanchett, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Molly Gordon and Gemma Chan.

On Sept. 24, the Brera Artwork Gallery in Milan debuted the “Giorgio Armani, Milano, for love” exhibition, housing over 100 items made up to now 5 many years and hand-picked by the designer, per Vogue Runway.

The Emporio Armani vogue present on Sept. 25 marked the home’s first runway presentation following Armani’s loss of life. It was held on the Armani Theatre, the house to most of the home’s exhibits and not too long ago the place those that beloved the designer went to mourn on Sept. 6.

In an announcement shared by the Armani Group and reported by WWD, it was revealed that Armani himself “labored till the very finish” on the “common staging of the style exhibits and the inauguration of the exhibition,” due to this fact reflecting the “dedication to hold ahead a legacy of dedication, respect and dedication to work, values which have at all times outlined Mr. Armani and which he has instilled in all his collaborators over time.”

In Armani’s final interview printed on Aug. 29 by the Monetary Occasions, he admitted that his “solely remorse in life” was “spending too many hours working and never sufficient time with family and friends.” 

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He additionally opened up about his imaginative and prescient for the model after his loss of life.

“My plans for succession encompass a gradual transition of the obligations that I’ve at all times dealt with to these closest to me, similar to Leo Dell’Orc [the head of men’s design for the Armani Group], the members of my household and the whole working workforce,” Armani stated. “I would really like the succession to be natural and never a second of rupture.”

The designer’s loss of life got here after a interval of lacking key occasions for the style home. In June, he missed the menswear present throughout Milan Style Week for the primary time in 50 years, per the Related Press. Nonetheless, per the outlet, the designer was watching the present’s dwell stream whereas he recovered from an “undisclosed situation”

Armani additionally instructed the Monetary Occasions how he managed to supervise the behind-the-scenes workings of his exhibits whereas recovering from house. “Remotely by way of video hyperlink, from the fittings to the sequence and the make-up,” he stated. “All the things you will notice has been executed underneath my route and carries my approval.”