Armani celebrates 20 years of haute couture… and it’s not goodbye

A look back to honor a unique trajectory. From May 21, 2025, Giorgio Armani dedicates twenty years of haute couture creation to an immersive exhibition in Milan.

Armani/Silos, the showcase of a master of style

In his personal Armani/Silos museum, opened ten years ago, the Maestro looks back on two decades of haute couture with the exhibition “Giorgio Armani Privé 2005-2025”. A first: these gowns, usually unveiled in Paris, are presented for the first time in Milan, his home town.

Comprising around 150 creations, the exhibition retraces a career marked by the constancy of style, discreet refinement and silent demands that are Armani’s signature. Far from the spectacular, he defends a timeless vision of luxury.

Haute couture by Giorgio Armani

In January 2005, at the age of 70, Giorgio Armani unexpectedly launched his Privé line, even though he was already a master of ready-to-wear. Twenty years on, his designs have become benchmarks of contemporary elegance: precious fabrics, subtle embroidery, oriental influences, all driven by a highly personal idea of chic.

“Style is about wearing eveningwear with ease and casualness,” he recently confided to Harper’s Bazaar France.

This credo is reflected in every silhouette, where modernity rhymes with timelessness, and ornament never takes precedence over line.

A tribute, not a farewell

At almost 91 years of age, the man who recently announced his intention to retire offers a form of active assessment, without nostalgia or sadness. He revisits his archives, his legendary collaboration with Aldo Fallai, his own codes of chic, with the same rigor as when he designed his first dress.

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