The Pinacoteca di Brera is extending the exhibition“Giorgio Armani: Milan, for Love” until May 3, 2026. A choice that comes after months of crowded halls and constant critical attention, and allows the continuation of an exhibition project that interweaves fashion and art: the designer’s clothes find a place alongside Italian works from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, establishing a dialogue between different times and languages.
Clothes among the paintings
The 133 selected creations accompany the visitor along the historical rooms of the Pinacoteca. Medieval tables, Renaissance altarpieces and 19th-century canvases alternate with the clothes, creating juxtapositions of materials, colors and shapes that invite the discovery of unexpected affinities and contrasts. Fashion does not interrupt history, but runs through it, offering new ways of reading the works and the atmospheres surrounding them.
The Archives as a narrative thread
Most of the garments come from Armani/Archivio, a platform dedicated to the preservation and study of the designer’s work. Alongside creations already exhibited at Armani/Silos and in international museums, new acquisitions appear that expand the narrative of the designer’s 50 years of research. The archive makes it possible to follow the evolution of Armani’s style, showing continuity and transformation without ruptures, as in an invisible thread connecting decades of creativity.
Milan inside Brera
The relationship between Giorgio Armani and Milan runs through the entire exhibition. Brera, the neighborhood chosen to live and work, is told through the designer’s looks: cultured and vital, capable of combining energy and rigor. In 1993, the Academy of Fine Arts recognized this link by conferring him the academic title, testifying to the consistency of his research and the way he combined function and invention.
Fifty years of style
Born in Piacenza in 1934, Giorgio Armani was one of the most influential Italian fashion designers of the 20th and 21st centuries. With his fashion house, founded in 1975, he redefined men’s and women’s elegance with understated lines and a constant balance between function and image. His vision also influenced cinema, art and lifestyle. His passing has ended a personal journey, but his legacy remains alive in collections, archives and exhibitions like this one.
Visiting the exhibition
Pinacoteca di Brera is hosting the exhibition in its historic spaces at 28 Via Brera, Milan, following the hours of the permanent collection, Tuesday through Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to 7:15 p.m. Admission coincides with that of the Pinacoteca, and it is advisable to check availability and book in advance, to walk calmly through the rooms and observe the dialogue between clothes and works up close.
Walking through the rooms means discovering how fashion can become a tool for reading the present, intertwining with art history. Armani’s clothes add an interpretive layer to the works, suggesting new connections and perspectives without interrupting the historical narrative of the Pinacoteca.
