Overview
- Ludovico Einaudi performed live as about 700 guests watched a solemn tribute set in the museum’s courtyard.
- International attendees included Cate Blanchett, Spike Lee, Richard Gere and Samuel L. Jackson.
- The runway presented more than 120 men’s and women’s looks that linked Milan’s urban spirit with Pantelleria, long associated with Armani’s retreat.
- Valeria Mazza called the evening “súper emotivo” as her 20-year-old son Benicio Gravier made his international runway debut and posed afterward with his parents.
- Coverage described the event as presenting the last collection credited to Giorgio Armani, whose death was reported on September 4.