Born: Rome, Italy, 1966 Raised in Italy, Giambattista Valli attended one of Rome’s Vatican schools. In 1980, while studying art at a Roman liceo scientifico, Valli was introduced to Jean
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Born: London, England, 1981 Gareth Pugh originally trained as a dancer, beginning ballet lessons in 1990. On his tenth birthday Pugh’s mother took him to London to see The Phantom
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Born: Legano, Italy, 1944 Died: Milan, Italy, 2007 Born in northern Italy, Gianfranco Ferre was raised by his mother, a widow of an engineer, and his two aunts, who were
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Born: Rome, Italy, 1972 Frida Giannini studied fashion design at Rome’s Fashion Academy. After graduating, Giannini apprenticed at a small-scale fashion house in Italy. In 1997 Giannini was offered a
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Founded by Adele Casagrande in 1918 Adele Casagrande was born in 1897, when she opened a leather and fur shop in Via del Plebiscito in central Rome, Fendi was created.
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