Julia Roberts, Anna Wintour & More Pay Tribute to Giorgio Armani

His death, announced on Thursday at age 91, elicited an outpouring of tributes

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Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani's work spanned the worlds of celebrity, fashion, and power. His death, announced on Thursday at age 91, elicited an outpouring of tributes.

Ralph Lauren: "I have always had the deepest respect and admiration for Giorgio Armani, not only as a designer who never strayed from his vision, but as a man who loved his family and friends and his homeland in such a special way. Though he was an icon of the world of fashion, he lived with great humility and a love of living that inspired the way he worked and the way he lived. He created a world reflecting all the things he loved with a foreverness that will be his legacy." - the American designer, in a statement to the Associated Press.

Anna Wintour: "Giorgio Armani had such a clear force of personality and vision that you knew his work instantly, wherever you found it. He understood power and attitude and elegance as well as anyone ever has in fashion and he understood women too: how they wanted to dress and what message they wanted to send as they asserted themselves through his rise in the 1970s, 1980s and beyond. He also never confined himself to one field or one discipline and understood that fashion can't exist in a silo. For him, fashion wasn't one thing: It was also film, music, sport, art, design and architecture and he left his mark in all these worlds and everywhere he went." - the chief content officer for Condé Nast.