Armani jeans biography
By Armani's own estimation, the current management team is small and hasn't been in place for long. Only a couple of top managers are permitted to speak for the brand, largely because Armani doesn't trust others to do so. Some top executives who have left over the past few years say they felt there was limited upside career potential. "Giorgio Armani SpA has become huge, and there are few people managing it," says Armani. "I wouldn't say these people are on trial, but they haven't yet earned closeness" to his inner circle.Armani sees his business eventually in the hands of this group he calls I Fedeli, or the faithful. It includes his two nieces and his nephew—Silvana and Roberta Armani, the daughters of his late older brother Sergio, and Andrea Camerana, the son of his younger sister Rosanna—as well as Pantaleo Dell'Orco, known as Leo, a former model who has been a collaborator and friend of Armani's for 20 years. The 57-year-old Silvana, reserved and understatedly elegant in her slacks, button-down shirt and ponytail, started out as a model and swimwear designer for her uncle in the 1970s, and today oversees the women's collections. Armani sometimes pulls her with him onto the runway. "Two or three times, we've been backstage, he's grabbed my hand, said, 'Put on some makeup,' and taken me out with him for a bow," says Silvana. Dell'Orco, 59, is her counterpart for menswear. Together, they are probably closer to the designer than anyone else. And though he has ceded a great degree of creative control to both of them, when there are disagreements—and there are many—Silvana explains: "In the end, he's always right."
Roberta, 41, is a tall, gregarious figure with a mane of wavy brown hair who also started out as a model for her uncle and now manages events and red-carpet affairs. Often photographed towering affectionately over Armani, she has become the second-most-recognizable face of the brand. The 42-year-old Camerana joined Armani 12 years ago after cutting his teeth in the food industry. Holding the title of director, he works with Armani on the business side and describes his work as "smoothing over frictions between Armani and his managers." Camerana says that his family is working on strengthening the company's internal organization "so that it will work, whatever happens."
Yet at their biweekly office meetings, or over weekend family lunches at Armani's country villa in Broni, south of Milan, discussing tomorrow remains difficult. "There won't be a single new genius, or new Armani. Rather, there will be lots of little Armanis," says Silvana. "We can't talk about succession with him. It's like saying, In a while you'll no longer be here. It's terrible. Talking about it would be terrible."
Armani readily admits he wouldn't be where he is without the help of another man, Sergio Galeotti, a tall, mustachioed architectural draftsman from Italy's Tuscan coast with whom the designer became romantically involved in the mid-1960s. At that point, Armani had worked as a window dresser and buyer at Milan department store La Rinascente and was designing for Italian menswear house Cerruti. A decade younger than Armani, Galeotti was a bon viveur and free spirit who became an energizing force for the aspiring designer. "He woke me up from a sort of torpor, from the little life in which I was living," recalls Armani.
As they began to think about forming a business, Galeotti and Armani toyed with the idea of teaming up with Walter Albini, then an Italian designer who was becoming famous for his luxury women's sportswear. But even at that early stage, Armani feared someone stealing his spotlight.
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