Inspiration: For Women Only
“I’ve always said that I would like to mix rock and simplicity because this is fashion, they are the extremes,” – Gianni Versace.
Versace was founded in Italy by Gianni Versace in 1978.
He opened his first boutique in Milan’s Via della Spiga in 1978, and it became an immediate success. Today, Versace is one of the [...]
Romeo Gigli was born in Faenza, Italy on 12 December 1949 to a wealthy family.
Gigli produces clothes that are subtle and sophisticated. He blends colours with a fluid sense of cut and drape to give a feeling of balance and harmony to his [...]
Franco Moschino (February 27, 1950 – September 18, 1994) was an Italian fashion designer who used wit, color and provocative designs to poke fun at the fashion establishment. He was completely un-orthodox.
Ironically, he became famous for the very thing he was poking fun at…
Franco Moschino became an illustrator for Gianni Versace until [...]
Fendi was founded in 1925 in Rome by Edoardo and Adele Fendi.
Fendi has since exemplified the highest standards of original Italian fashion. Their exclusive handbags and scarves are crafted from the highest quality materials and are a must for the today’s woman of discriminating taste. It is best known for it’s ‘Baguette’ handbags.
Karl Lagerfeld is [...]
Diesel was founded by Renzo Rosso who was born 15 September 1955 in Brugine in Italy. He was an industrial textile graduate who moved into making his own clothes.
In 1978 he joined forces with other manufactures to form the Genius Group a group which created many successful clothing brands including Diesel. In 1985 Renzo took [...]
What started as a weaving shop has now grown into one of the worlds most distinguished designer brands of menwear, perfume and aftershave under the influence of Nino Cerruti.
Nino Cerruti was born on September 25, 1930 in Italy and is among the most famous designers in the world.
He founded his own haute couture house called [...]
Roberto Cavalli was born in Florence, Italy on November 15, 1940 and raised in modest surroundings. He had rather strong artistic traditions, his mother was a tailor and his grandfather a Florentine impressionist painter – whose work can be seen in the Uffizi Gallery.
Following in this tradition Roberto frequented the Academy of Art. Capricious, eclectic, [...]
Alberta Ferretti was born in 1950 in Cattolica on the north Adriatic coast of Italy, the daughter of a dressmaker. She is one of the doyennes of Italian fashion.
Aged just 18, Ferretti opened a boutique in her hometown, but in 1974 she exchanged selling for designing and launched her own label.
During the [...]
He was designated by Guy Laroche, shortly before his death, as his successor in haute-couture. Angelo Tarlazzi took up the offer from 1989 to 1993, while continuing to direct his own fashion house.
At the age of nineteen, Italian born Angelo Tarlazzi created his first fashion collection for the Roman [...]
In 1934, the brothers Giovanni and Giacomo Canali founded a Tailoring workshop dedicated to the manufacture of high quality clothing.
In the 1950′s – with the contributions of the family’s [...]
