Private funeral service held for Italian designer Giorgio Armani

The hearse leaves at the end of designer Giorgio Armani’s funeral in the San Martino church in the small historic village of Rivalta (Luca Bruno/AP)

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.

Armani, one of the most recognisable names and faces in the global fashion industry, died on Thursday at the age of 91.