{"id":2000522,"date":"2025-09-05T22:52:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T22:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2000522"},"modified":"2025-09-05T22:52:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T22:52:35","slug":"how-michael-ovitz-turned-armani-into-hollywoods-power-uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-michael-ovitz-turned-armani-into-hollywoods-power-uniform\/","title":{"rendered":"How Michael Ovitz Turned Armani Into Hollywood\u2019s Power Uniform"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Ovitz<\/a> says only one obstacle prevented him from becoming truly close friends with Giorgio<\/a> Armani<\/a>, the legendary Italian fashion designer who died at his home in Milan on Thursday: \u201cHe didn\u2019t speak English, and I don\u2019t speak Italian, so there always had to be an interpreter between us,\u201d explains Ovitz, the co-founder and former chairman of Creative Artists Agency. \u201cI couldn\u2019t just pick up the phone and call him. But I do feel like I got to know him. He was a great designer and an even greater person.\u201d<\/p>\n

As one of the cadre of uber-agents who famously departed William Morris and founded CAA<\/a> in 1975, Ovitz says there was an informal understanding from day one at the new agency. \u201cWe didn\u2019t create a rule, but we told both the men and women in our office that they had to dress a step up \u2014 a suit and tie for the men,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Michael Ovitz says only one obstacle prevented him from becoming truly close friends with Giorgio Armani, the legendary Italian fashion designer who died at his home in Milan on Thursday: \u201cHe didn\u2019t speak English, and I don\u2019t speak Italian, so there always had to be an interpreter between us,\u201d explains Ovitz, the co-founder and former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2000522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/How-Michael-Ovitz-Turned-Armani-Into-Hollywoods-Power-Uniform.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}