Armani says he feels “marvelously” well after months-long battle with hepatitis

Armani feeling great after hepatitis battle

MILAN — Designer Giorgio Armani said Thursday he was feeling “marvelously well” after winning a months-long battle with hepatitis.

Armani attended the Vogue Fashion’s Night Out in Milan and a perfume launch Thursday. The ANSA news agency quoted him as saying his liver was in such good shape that he can now stop taking the medicine he has been on.

Armani told ANSA in May that he had been battling hepatitis. Several missed public appearances in the spring, and a gaunt appearance at the June Italian menswear shows, had raised concerns about his health.

“I’m marvelously well, I beat my problem, the data about my liver are nearly perfect — some even better than perfect — such that I can stop taking my medicine,” he said, ANSA reported.

The bronzed designer said he had also just returned from a long, relaxing vacation cruising around Croatia, Italy’s southern coast and the islands off Sicily before ending up at his home on the island of Pantelleria.

“It was the longest vacation of my life. I needed it. I deserved it,” Armani said, ANSA reported.