Giorgio Armani Unveiled Turns a Hamptons Picnic with Rachel Hayes Into an Open Air Installation at Nomad Hamptons
Giorgio Armanihas brought the second chapter of Giorgio Armani Unveiled to the Hamptons, creating an open‑air experience that turns a picnic into an ephemeral installation where light, form and nature meet art and hospitality. Developed in collaboration with American artist Rachel Hayes and presented during NOMAD Hamptons 2026 at The Watermill Center, the project extends Armani’s ongoing dialogue between fashion, interiors and contemporary art.
Giorgio Armani Unveiled, chapter two
The second chapter of Giorgio Armani Unveiled continues the brand’s partnership with NOMAD, the invitation‑only collectible design fair known for its site-specific projects in locations like St. Moritz and the Hamptons. For this iteration, curated with NOMAD, Giorgio Armani conceives an environment as “a place shaped by imagination, experimentation, and creative exchange,” placing the House’s design language in direct conversation with artists and the surrounding landscape.
At The Watermill Center, the chapter unfolds as an outdoor experience that reframes Armani’s…
understated elegance in terms of space, texture and atmosphere, rather than a conventional runway or showroom presentation.
A picnic as installation Set within the natural landscape of the Hamptons, the Giorgio Armani Unveiled picnic becomes an ephemeral installation where colour, textile and atmosphere converge in a unified spatial language.
Instead of a typical brand dinner, the gathering is staged as a composed scene: textiles draped, layered and suspended to modulate light and movement; seating and table elements arranged to echo the geometry of the surroundings.
This approach aligns with NOMAD’s ethos of blending art, design, hospitality and nature into lived‑in environments, making the event feel both domestic and sculptural. The installation is documented through photography by Tinkaud, capturing the shifting relationship between fabric, sky, guests and landscape across the afternoon…
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