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September 2026
Armani names Dario Vitale creative director of Emporio Armani and its accessories line — the first outsider to hold the post
Giorgio Armani Group has handed creative control of Emporio Armani and Giorgio Armani Accessories to a designer from outside the family for the first time in the house's history, putting Dario Vitale in charge of what reaches Armani's Japan floors — the Ginza Tower flagship and department-store concessions among them — just as the group's restaurant and residence projects expand across the country.
Armani stages a Todai-ji red carpet and a Kasuga Taisha dinner for Nara's international film festival
Giorgio Armani Japan turned two of Nara's most storied religious sites into a stage for its Nara International Film Festival tie-up, pairing its own restaurant arm with a Michelin two-star local chef for a diplomatic-anniversary dinner most guests would never otherwise reach.
A 200-year-old Kyoto teahouse breaks ground as a residence furnished by Armani/Casa
Tokyo developer Feed has broken ground on rebuilding a roughly 200-year-old former teahouse in Kyoto's Kamishichiken geisha district into a small luxury residence furnished by Armani/Casa, with architect Kengo Kuma as design supervisor.
Armani Ristorante Tokyo's regional tasting menu turns to Iwate for its third chapter
Giorgio Armani's Ginza restaurant continues its prefecture-by-prefecture tasting menu with an Iwate-themed course from September 16, its third stop after Ehime and Nagano.