Giorgio+Armani

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 * Giorgio Armani** (born [|11 July] [|1934]) is an [|Italian] [|fashion designer], particularly noted for his menswear. He is known today for his clean, tailored lines. He formed his company, [|Armani], in 1974, and by 2001 was acclaimed as the most successful designer to come out of Italy,[|[1]] with an annual turnover of $1.691 billion, and a personal fortune of $4.1 billion.[|[2]]

Giorgio Armani was born in [|Piacenza], [|Emilia-Romagna]. He originally trained in [|medicine], but found his passion in [|photography], before being called up for national service in 1957. He then worked in a [|department store], La Rinascente, as a [|window dresser].

Fashion career
From 1961 to 1970, Armani worked as a designer in well-known fashion house [|Nino Cerruti], after which he left to pursue freelance work. In 1974, with his partner Sergio Galeotti, he established [|Armani] with a menswear label, introducing a womenswear line in 1975. His sister Rosanna Armani joined him in the company; Galeotti died of [|AIDS] in 1985. Armani achieved his international breakthrough by tailoring for numerous Hollywood names and especially for [|Richard Gere] in the title role of //[|American Gigolo]// in 1980. In 2001, //[|Forbes]// named him the most successful Italian designer, estimating his net worth at $1.7 billion; in giving him the same title five years later, the magazine estimated his fortune had grown to $4.1 billion.

Innovations
Armani was among the first designers to ban models with a [|body mass index] (BMI) under 18, after model [|Ana Carolina Reston] starved herself to death due to [|anorexia nervosa]. In January 2007 Armani became the first designer to broadcast a haute couture fashion show live on the Internet. The Armani Prive spring/summer 2007 fashion show was broadcast via Microsoft Corporation’s MSN and Cingular cellular phones.

In sport
Giorgio Armani has a keen interest in sport; he is an [|Inter Milan] fan, a president of the Milan basketball team,[|[4]] and has twice designed suits for the England national football team.[|[5]] He has been responsible for the suits worn by [|England]'s [|Chelsea FC] since August 2007.[|[6]] He designed the ceremonial Italian flag-bearers' outfits at the [|2006 Winter Olympics] Opening Ceremony in [|Turin].

Charity work
In 2002 he was appointed a [|Goodwill Ambassador] for the [|United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees].