Giorgio Armani’s ‘Crossroads’ Returns: A Tribute to Five Women’s Stories

Giorgio Armani presents the fifth season of Crossroads. The Italian firm once again gives voice to the story of five women “architects of their own personal and professional evolution” in the Crossroads series. The artist Tecla Insolia, the dancer Tan Yuanyuan, the actress Chloe Fineman, the multifaceted artist Alissa Jung and the actress and singer Sheila Atim, make up the five new episodes of the project, which are already available on the brand’s social networks.

Through deep and authentic accounts of the lives of each of them, the new Crossroads series explains the story of their lives, developed through a refined visual environment, spaces suspended in time that become places of introspection and a dialogue between the past and the future.

Tecla Insolia, born in 2004 in Varese (Italy), showed a strong predilection for the arts from an early age. Multifaceted, intuitive and emotionally authentic, she is one of the most promising young Italian actresses and singers. Winner of the David di Donatello 2025 award for best actress, Insolia is now a role model for a new generation of artists.

On the other side of the world, in Shanghai, Tan Yuanyuan began studying classical ballet at the age of eleven and later continued her training at the prestigious John Cranko Schule in Stuttgart (Germany). Among her many awards are the first prize at the International Ballet Competition in Paris in 1992 and the Nijinsky Prize at the First International Modern Dance and Ballet Competition in Japan in 1993.Two years later, at the age of twenty, she became the prima ballerina of the San Francisco Ballet, to which she belonged for twenty-nine years.

Giorgio Armani Crossroads is now available on the brand’s social networks

Also in Germany, although in a city further north, the versatile artist Alissa Junt was born in 1981. The actress managed to make her way into television at an early age, and in the years that followed, she played roles in several successful films in the country. In 2010 she founded the Ong Pen Paper Peace, dedicated to education that encourages young people to reflect on European colonialism. Six years later, she graduated in medicine and worked as a pediatrician, but her acting journey was not over, and she returned to filmmaking as a screenwriter and director.

Born in Uganda, Sheila Atim moved to England at the age of five, where she managed to graduate in biomedical sciences from King’s College London, although following her artistic vocation, she also studied singing and acting. A meeting with playwright Ché Walker led her to make her professional debut on the Globe Theatre stage with The Lightning Child in 2013; three years later, she joined the cast of Shakespeare’s triology, directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Although her big leap to fame came in 2017, with the musical Girl from The North Country, where her portrayal of Marianne Lane earned her the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Los Angeles was the city where Chloe Fineman began her career as a stage actress. In 2018 she was recognized as a New Face at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal and was nominated for Best Comedian at the 2019 Shorty Awards. Fineman has appeared in films such as Babylon (2022) and Megalopolis (2024), praised for their precision and wit, which have earned her numerous nominations, including Breakthrough Performer of the Year at the Gold Derby TV Awards and Best Actress at the London Fashion Film Festival.

With filmmaker Celine Song directing the project, Giorgio Armani Crossroads captures the emotions of the protagonists and creates an intense and immersive visual narrative in which fashion intertwines with their personal stories. The five chapters are already available on the brand’s social networks, and the epilogue and behind-the-scenes of the project will be published in the coming weeks.

In mid-October, the Italian group appointed Giuseppe Marsocci as the new CEO, replacingthe founder and designer who died on September 4th at the age of 91. The decision, taken unanimously by the Armani Foundation, seeks to ensure the continuity of the company and the management model defined by the creator himself.