In a move marked by sobriety and respect, producer Andrea Iervolino has officially announced the production of the film “Armani – The King of Fashion” only after the funeral of Giorgio Armani. The decision was described not as impulsive but as a carefully considered act of respect for a man who embodied the essence of Italian elegance.
The project was initially set up in March-April 2025, when Iervolino and his team began work on the screenplay and narrative structure. While an announcement was originally planned for June, it was suspended due to a precise ethical choice: to avoid speculating on the designer’s illness. The producer also chose not to make the news public immediately after Armani’s passing, waiting instead for the nation and the world to collectively pay their final respects.
In a statement, Andrea Iervolino said, “We had already started writing the screenplay for this film last spring, convinced that Giorgio Armani’s life and legacy deserved a broad and deep narrative. We never considered announcing the project during his illness, so as not to disturb him. It seemed right and dutiful not to do it at that moment, just as we chose not to announce it immediately after his passing. I chose to do it only now, after the funeral, because I wanted the man, the master, the icon to be celebrated first.”
Iervolino added that the film is “an act of love” for a personality who made Italy great in the world, calling it a tribute that will forever honor his memory. He described Armani as not just a designer who revolutionized fashion, but “a poet of fabrics, an architect of forms” who narrated Italian beauty with simplicity and rigor. The film aims to capture not just the image of a style creator, but the soul of a man who transformed his personal dream into a collective heritage.
Produced by The Andrea Iervolino Company, “Armani – The King of Fashion” is promised to be much more than a standard biopic, envisioned instead as an intimate and universal journey into the force of a name that marked the history of fashion.
Concluding, Iervolino stated, “The legacy of Giorgio Armani belongs not only to Italy but to the entire world. This film will be our way of saying thank you to a man who, with his talent, knew how to transform elegance into a universal language.”