Fashion: Armani equips Milan competition from Turin

The Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani once again equips a soccer team with suits on his old days – one of the greatest competitors of the two first division clubs from his hometown Milan. The 91-year-old and the Italian record champions Juventus Turin announced their cooperation for the next two seasons. Armani will provide the men’s team with a “formal wardrobe” for outside the field, it said in a joint message.

Juve got an old jersey from 1975 out of the closet for his internet channels and provided it with the number 75 – the year in which Armani had released his first own collection.

The fashion designer used to have football teams. He also acted trouble in his home country because he was tailored to the English national team at the 2006 World Cup.

Not included because of health problems

Due to health problems, Armani has had to stay away from the big fashion shows in Milan and Paris for the first time in recent months. He announced his return for September.

The star designer mostly spends the summer in Milan or in his villa on the Italian Mediterranean island of Pantelleria. His private assets are estimated at seven billion euros.

The Italian has been one of the most important fashion designers in the world for decades. After the first years in which he worked for other houses, he founded his own company in the mid -1970s with his partner Sergio Galeotti: the Giorgio Armani Spa.

That was the nucleus of a group that is worth many billions today. Around the globe, this includes 9,250 employees and more than 2,000 businesses with annual sales of more than 2.3 billion euros.