Giorgio Armani’s life to be adapted into TV series, director says ‘opportunity to tell his story is exciting, challenge’

LOS ANGELES: The life and career of late fashion designer Giorgio Armani are all set to be developed into a high-end TV series.

It is produced by Italy’s Lux Vide, which is collaborating with the fashion house founded by the iconic designer. The yet-to-be-titled Armani biopic series has further enlisted Turkish-born Italy-based director Ferzan Ozpetek, reported Variety.

Ozpetek, who shared a good bond with the late designer, recently won acclaim for his 2025 release ‘Diamonds’. It follows a group of warm-hearted women in a Rome atelier rushing to fulfil a demanding order from an Oscar-winning costume designer client in the 1970s. Other TV credits for Ozpetek are 2022’s first Disney+ Italian original series, ‘The Ignorant Angels’.

The Italian town of Piacenza unveiled ‘Tribute to Giorgio Armani,’ a mural painted on the facade of a residential building on the city’s outskirts, on the eve of the late designer’s birthday pic.twitter.com/jsqf3Bb833

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“I knew, admired and spent time with Giorgio for many years, both on official occasions and in more private settings. We talked about cinema, of which he was notably passionate and an expert. But also about art, costumes, architecture, and, I would say, life itself. I could see within him a visionary and a brilliant artist. But also a down-to-earth and very determined man. The opportunity to tell his story is both an exciting honour and a challenge that involves capturing the many facets of such a complex, original and captivating personality,” the director said in a statement, as quoted by Variety.

Ferzan Ozpetek is also co-writing the upcoming Armani series in collaboration with Lux Vide’s head writer Francesco Arlanch.

Giorgio Armani passed away at the age of 91 in September, 2025. Born in Piacenza, Italy, on July 11, 1934, the lifelong cinephile enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with Hollywood. Known among fashion cognoscenti for his innovations in men’s tailoring beginning in the 1970s, he became a global sensation practically overnight after designing Richard Gere’s wardrobe in 1980’s American Gigolo, as per The Hollywood Reporter.

In the decades since, costume designers have turned to Armani to create some of the most swaggering looks in film, from Leonardo DiCaprio’s duds in The Wolf of Wall Street, Kevin Costner’s 1930s trench in The Untouchables, Christian Bale’s power suits as both Patrick Bateman and Bruce Wayne; Brad Pitt’s white tux in Inglourious Basterds, Jessica Chastain’s camel hair coat in A Most Violent Year; and the fang-like shirt collars in Goodfellas. (ANI)