Family members and close friends attended a private funeral service on Monday for Giorgio Armani in a 14th-century Italian church located within a medieval hamlet near the legendary fashion designer’s native city of Piacenza.

Hundreds of ordinary admirers and VIPs have paid their last respects to fashion icon Giorgio Armani. The designer was remembered by Milan’s mayor as a “man of extraordinary elegance” who left an indelible mark on the city and the global fashion world.

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.