Fashion designer Giorgio Armani flees wildfire on Sicilian island retreat

Flames burn beyond Giorgio Armani’s villa on the Sicilian island of Pantelleria (Armani Press Office Via AP)

Fashion designer Giorgio Armani and dozens of other people fled their holiday villas overnight as firefighters worked to extinguish the remains of two wildfires on the Sicilian island of Pantelleria.

A photo shows flames that appear to encroach on Armani’s villa, but his press office said they stopped short of the property.