Galleria Vittorio Emanuele

Milan has a wonderful history as a laboratory of creative ideas. The Polytechnic and the Accedemia di Brera have trained fashion designers and other designers who are famous worldwide.

Here is a small selection of designers born in Milan, or who started their careers here, contributing to the great name of Italian fashion in the world:

Giorgio Armani: born in Piacenza in 1934, the king of Italian fashion started his career in Milan, working as a buyer for Rinascente. At the beginning of the sixties, he left his job to dedicate himself to creating patterns for well-known designers, even though he had no specific training. In 1975 he risked again, starting up the label Giorgio Armani for men and women and he was successful immediately. He built up a close relationship with the cinema world from the start, and was consecrated with his clothes made for "American Gigolo". A young Richard Gere was seen in front of a huge clothes closet, in the dressing ceremony scene, that was arranged in a maniacally perfect order. Foremost symbol of elegance in the 1980s, Armani is still king of world fashion today.