Milan, 4 September (LaPresse) – ‘I mourn the passing of a person I always considered a friend, never a rival. I can only bow down before his immense talent. Before the changes he brought to fashion and, above all, before his unwavering loyalty to a single style: his own.’ So wrote designer Valentino Garavani in a post on his social media profiles, remembering Giorgio Armani, who passed away on Thursday at the age of 91.