Giorgio Armani

Born
11 July 1934 (age 74) Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Nationality Italian Labels Awards

Giorgio Armani S.p.A. CFDA International Award for 1983

Giorgio Armani born 11 July 1934 is an Italian fashion designer particularly noted for his means were .he is known to day for his clean tailored lines he formed his company Armani in 1975 and buy 2001 was acclaimed as the most successful designer to come out of Italy with an annual turnover of $1600 billion and a personal fortune of $ 5 billion

Contents
y 1 Fashion career y 2 Innovations y 3 in sport y 4 other businesses

Armani
Giorgio Armani S.P.A. is an Italian fashion company. The company designs and manufactures products in several categories including fashion accessories, apparel, cosmetics, fragrances, home interiors, jewellery, eyewear and watches

Labels
under several labels including Giorgio Armani, Armani Collision, Emporia Armani, Armani Jeans, Armani Junior, Armani Exchange, and Armani Casa. End of year sales for 2005 were $1.69 billion.

Armani hotels
Armani is also planning together with Omar Properties to launch a chain of luxury hotels and resorts in several big cities including Milan, Paris, New York, London, Tokyo, Shanghai and Dubai. The company already operates a range of cafes worldwide, in addition to a bar, restaurant and nightclub.

History
Giorgio Armani and Sergio Galati founded the company in Milan in 1975 with capital of $10,000. Armani today employs about 4,700 employees and has 13 factories around the world. It has nearly 300 stores in 36 countries. Recently, the house has begun an haute couture operation, showing in Paris during the Haute Couture fashion week, under the name of Armani Prove. Unlike much of the fashion industry, which is held by massive multi-nationals like LVMH and relies heavily on licensing, Armani is held privately by Giorgio Armani and produces the vast majority of its products in house.

Line Armani Casa

Armani Casa ("Armani Home" in Italian) is the high-end home collection by Armani features furniture, lamps, linens, and dining essentials. The Home Collection is expensively priced. Armani Casa is available at its 40 worldwide boutiques and select Neiman Marcus stores.

Armani Collision

A design board of an Armani Collision t-shirt

Armani Collusion is a high-end line from fashion designer Giorgio Armani. The line is more expensive than the Armani Exchange and Armani Jeans and Emporia Armani lines but less expensive than the high end ready-to-wear line, Giorgio Armani (sometimes referred to as Armani 'black label') and the haute couture line, Armani Privet. The line is typically aimed at an older customer who does not desire 'trendy' design, but places emphasis on high quality more classic items. It replaced the Giorgio Armani Le Collusions line. In addition to being sold in freestanding boutiques (which feature the Collision line exclusively), it is also sold in high-end department stores such as Harrods, Harvey Nichols, David Jones, Saks 5th Avenue, Bloomingdales and Neiman Marcus.

Armani Cosmetics

The beauty brand by Armani features cosmetics, skin care, perfume, and cologne. It is produced and distributed by the luxury division of L'Oreal, with which Armani has a longterm partnership agreement. It is available at many department stores worldwide and has very few boutiques.
Armani Exchange

Armani Exchange Created in 1991, Armani Exchange (often A|X) is geared towards younger customers and features urban style, prt--porter products, especially T-shirts, jeans, polos, and sports coats. Armani Exchange is the most affordable of all the Armani lines and mainly targets the American market. It is geared toward older teens and young adults with a contemporary fashion style. The line features 73 stores and 8 outlets in the United States and 82 stores internationally. The United Kingdom's first stores opened in Blue water, Kent, the Met quarter, and Liverpool and in the Trafford Centre, Manchester. And in 2007 it opened its biggest store in the Bullring, Birmingham. The brand has expanded to some countries recently. In 2006 a new store was opened in the Moresby Mall in So Paulo and in 2007, other store was opened in the Atbara Fashion Mall in Mexico City, Mexico. More recently in August 2008, new locations opened in the Eaton Centre, York dale Mall and Vaughan Mills, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Kings Plaza in Brooklyn, NY. A store was opened at Pavilion Kuala Lumpur in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The Armani Exchange Presents Trieste In Search of Sunrise Summer Tour 08 is a partnership tour between Ties to and Armani Exchange. The purpose of this junction between both is to promote them; Armani will offer exclusive apparel to Ties to and a special limited edition release containing 3 CD's of his In Search of Sunrise 7: Asia compilation which is due June 10. The In Search of Sunrise: North American Summer Tour 2008 is only taking place in North America on May 23 and ending on July 4.
Armani Hotels

Armani and Omar Properties signed an agreement in 2004, for Omar Hotels to build and operate at least seven luxury hotels and three vacation resorts under the Armani name. Armani would be responsible for overseeing all aspects the interior design and style of the hotels. One of their famous hotels is located in Dubai.

The bottom 37 floors of the Burg Dubai skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, will house the world's first Armani Hotel. Giorgio Armani is also designing the interiors of the 160 Armani Residences, also within the skyscraper, and its specially designed line of products from the Armani Casa home furnishings collection. The Burg Dubai Armani Residences Road Show toured Milan, London, Jeddah, Moscow and Delhi. The exhibition was designed by Brash Brands winning an International Design Award for its Signs, Exhibits and Point of Purchase (POP) Displays. The London event was housed in the Armani Casa Showroom in New Bond Street.

Armani Jeans

Armani Jeans is a bridge-line collection of denim-related clothing created in 1981 by Giorgio Armani. Unlike Armani's lower-end collection Armani Exchange, Armani Jeans is mainly sold in department stores instead of freestanding stores, although there are fifteen freestanding Armani Jeans stores in the world, in addition to an Armani Jeans Cafe in Milan. Its price line matches Emporia Armani Line, selling over US $1,000 items in the collection. Some Armani Jeans items are sold in Emporia Armani Stores and Armani Jeanss stores sell Emporia Armani items in the Asian Market. In terms of design, the clothing from this line does not feature Giorgio Armani's signature simplicity and often has larger logos than the clothing in any of his other collections. The colours used for Armani Jeans are more diverse than those found in his higher end lines or Armani Exchange, which feature monochromatic colour schemes and focus on cut and material over colour. There are several Armani Jeans freestanding stores throughout the world, including several in Italy, Dubai, Lebanon, Japan and Spain. The brand is particularly popular in Asia, where it is often sold in Takashimaya department stores.

Armani Junior

This line that features clothing for children. It can be purchased at its 15 worldwide boutiques and select Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue stores.
Armani Privet

Armani's haute couture line made history being the first haute couture Paris fashion show to be streamed live online. The label is strictly made to wear and only available for purchase in selected stores such as Harrods at a high price.

Emporia Armani

Emporia Armani store, Tokyo

Emporia Armani is a more youthful inspired Armani Line that markets for younger adults. The line is the third-least expensive Armani Brand and can be bought at its 13 American boutiques and over 140 worldwide boutiques, making it the largest distributed Armani brand. Products encompassed by this brand include ready-to-wear clothes, sunglasses, perfume, accessories and watches. The line is considered a "bridge line" as it features higher-end products than Armani Exchange or Armani Jeans but is not as expensive as the exclusive Armani Collusion or Giorgio Armani ('black label') lines. Emporia Armani is sold in freestanding Emporia Armani boutiques, in high-end department stores, and through their
Giorgio Armani

The Armani signature label is the most expensive Armani label and is available in its 75 worldwide boutiques.