GIORGIO UNVEILED: Giorgio Armani is renewing its partnership with Nomad, the invite-only itinerant art and design showcase, for the latter’s upcoming edition in the Hamptons, its first in the U.S., slated for June 25 to 28.
After debuting its “Giorgio Armani/Unveiled” project at Nomad’s Saint Moritz event in February, the Italian fashion house is hosting the second chapter at the storied Watermill Center in the Hamptons, the venue for Nomad’s American debut.
A renowned cultural hub founded by visionary artist and director Robert Wilson in 1992, the Watermill Center is dubbed an incubator of radical creativity. It was built on the site of the Western Union communication research facility near Southampton, Long Island, about two hours from New York City.
The venue resonates with Giorgio Armani, as the late designer notably collaborated with Wilson in 2000 on a retrospective of his fashion career, originally presented at the Guggenheim Museum, in New York, before traveling to other destinations in the world.
The Watermill Center in the Hamptons.
Courtesy of Nomad
Curated again by Abby Bangser, founder and creative director of Object & Thing, the new iteration of “Giorgio Armani/Unveiled” will exhibit items from the Armani/Casa interiors and home décor collection, as well as 13 archival fashion pieces drawn from the Armani/Archivio collection.
The Armani/Casa creations on display span furniture, such as the Trocadero table, Esagono stool, and Pretty dormeuse chair, tableware, including the Victoria Limoges porcelain and Victor Murano glassware collections, and home textiles, in addition to newly commissioned works. The latter include site-specific works by American artists Ariel Dearie and Jonathan Kline, inspired by The Watermill Center’s architecture, landscape and experimental ethos, such as sculptural tabletop flowers and candle holders as well as baskets and sculptural vessels.
Armani also supported the large-scale patchwork textile installation by American artist Rachel Hayes debuting on June 26 on the Watermill Center’s South Lawn.
Ariel Dearie, Candle Holder No. 1, 2025, hand-shaped patinated brass with repoussé detail and silver solder, displayed at the Giorgio Armani/Unveiled exhibit at Nomad in the Hamptons.
Michael Biondo/Courtesy of Nomad
The fashion house’s first participation at Nomad in February featured the exhibition “Through the Looking Glass: Jane Crisp and Yuta Segawa” curated by Bangser to spotlight the intersection of craft and the Armani/Casa world.
Since Nomad’s inception in 2017, its cofounders, design curator and architect Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte and avant-garde curator Giorgio Pace, have seen the fair resonate with the fashion world, while drawing chief executive officers from the sector’s biggest conglomerates.
Armani/Casa’s Esagono stool.
In addition to Giorgio Armani, Nomad will be collaborating with Bottega Veneta this year, for the second flagship event it will host at the Terminal 1 at the Abu Dhabi International Airport, a monument of Arabian modernism designed, from Nov. 19 to 22, marking its first edition in the United Arab Emirates.
Gucci has also previously collaborated with Nomad for “Artists in Flux,” a project that unfolded in Milan and took place during Milan Design Week in 2023, in a private home designed by the late architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni.
