At Milan Fashion Week, Giorgio Armani presented his final dreamscape

FOR THE DEDICATED Giorgio Armani acolyte, the late Italian designer allowed us to dream. That rang true for John Potvin, the owner of the @myarmaniarchive Instagram account, when I recently asked him about the lasting legacy of Armani’s iconic campaign images.

“I was a teenager in the ’80s and dreamt of a more glamorous place,” Potvin told me, “Of course, in those fictional images, that place never really existed, but they certainly allowed me to dream.”

On the last day of Milan Fashion Week, the brand presented Armani’s final collection in a lantern dreamscape at the Pinacoteca di Brera art gallery. The Renaissance style courtyard was transformed into “two important places in Giorgio Armani’s world: Milan, the city of modernity and work, and Pantelleria, the Mediterranean island on the border between Europe and Africa, a land of exotic charm and wild nature,” the label wrote in a statement.

Present throughout were these global influences that Armani cultivated over half a century. With most of the looks presented with a male and female model, the co-ed pairings emphasised that Armani has never been discussed in binaries. The deconstructed jackets; long fluid pants; the power and elegance derived from greige and opulent navy.

The only retrospective element was the literal one happening in a nearby space at the museum, the Giorgio Armani, Milano, Per Amore exhibition, which opened after the show to mark the brand’s 50th-anniversary. (The exhibition is open until January 11, 2026.) Up until the spring/summer 2026 menswear show in June, Armani would walk out after all the models to receive his audience. Here, Silvana Armani and Leo dell’Orco, Armani’s niece and design collaborator, respectively, took the bow in his stead.

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