After more than 30 years of extraordinary success, Giorgio Armani will go down in history as the man who defined the working wardrobe of the late 20th century and taught Hollywood how to dress. As president, chief executive and sole shareholder of his company, he is considered by many to be the world’s wealthiest fashion designer, with a fortune estimated by Forbes in March 2008 at $5 billion.
Mr. Armani was born in 1934 in Piacenza, an industrial city in northern Italy. He did well at school and won a place to study medicine at university. After serving in the military for two years, he abandoned his studies and in 1957 found a job as a display assistant and buyer at La Rinascente in Milan, then one of Europe’s chicest department stores. Shortly afterward, he fell in love with the architect Sergio Galeotti.
After seven years at La Rinascente, Mr. Armani joined the men’s-wear designer Nino Cerruti, where he was drilled in tailoring and production. In 1975 Mr. Galeotti persuaded Mr. Armani, then 40, to start his own label for both men and women. He would run the business, while Mr. Armani designed.
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