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Franco Moschino was born in 1950, on February 27th. In 1978 for eleven consecutive seasons, he designed the Cadette collection. His work on it heralded what became some of his most famous personal and stylistic traits.

Project Runway Winner and Fashion designer Sebastian Grey is no stranger to the high-end market, with 10 years of experience working with renowned designers like Lina Cantillo and Andres Otalora.

She currently works in Lima where she created the visual merchandising and the shop windows for numerous outlets and the construction of exhibition stands. She teaches courses and seminars in shopping centres and design institutes in Lima.

Alessandro Sartori was born in Biella, Italy. He draduated from Istituto Marangoni, receiving his degree in 1989. By 2003 he was artistic director at Ermenegildo Zegna, where he created the “Z Zegna” range. In July 2011 he joined Berluti, holding the position of creative director until February 2016, when his return as artistic director of the…

Her career started with her collaboration with Gianni Versace fashion house as Junior Accessories Designer for creative research and design of leather goods for the women’s Couture and Prêt-à-Porter collections. In September 2009, Paula was selected for the ‘Vogue Talents’ project and was included in the list of 140 Emerging Designers of Vogue Italia. In…

Indonesian fashion designer Kleting Titis Wigati is CEO & Creative director at KLÉ, ready-to-wear fashion label she started in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2009. Her designs are brave and sharp, intended for non-conformist individuals who crave self-expression through their personal style. Kleting graduated in Fashion Design from Istituto Marangoni Milano School of Fashion in 2005. The…

Costanza Bacciocchi, a fashion specialist of extra-ordinary skill, currently works as an International Specialist PR Product Placement and Celebrity Dressing with Etro Fashion House. As she graduated from high school when she was only 17, she needed her parents’ consent to enroll at Istituto Marangoni, where she completed Cum Laude a Fashion Business degree at…

Born in 1986 in Bolzano, Italy, Valentina Modica has always been very fond of contemporary art and fashion. Willing to pursue a career in fashion and to hone her skills, she moves to Milan in 2005 to attend the 3-year course in Fashion Design at Istituto Marangoni: in 2008, she takes part in the exclusive…

Born in 1992 in Tolmezzo, a small town near Udine, Martina has always been fascinated by fashion. After studying fashion and art in high school, she moves to Milano to study Fashion Design at Istituto Marangoni, where she hones her passion for pattern-making developing a personal technique: geometrical shapes marked on the fabric and later draped on mannequins.

Martina Ceccherini Nelli was born in Milan, Italy, yet spent the majority of her life in London, England. After finishing high school in the UK, Martina moved to the States where she studied a short course in journalism at the University of Miami for one year, and then shortly after moved to New York City…

Gifted at drawing, Helena, born and raised in Gothenburg, suddenly decides she wants to study fashion at Istituto Marangoni. Here, in spite of a skin problem that requires frequent surgical treatments, thanks to valuable teachers and some amazing friends, she learns everything she needs to know to be a stylist: to research, to create collections,…

Lautaro Amadeo Tambutto was born in 1994 in San Nicolas de los Arroyos, near Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studies Fashion Design at the Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires and after his graduation, he moves to Italy to attend the Fashion Design Intensive course at Istituto Marangoni Milano · The School of Fashion. He launches…

From the childhood, Marco Angelo Mazzoran has shown his passion for the tailoring and for the textile. He obtained his Degree in Fashion Design at Istituto Marangoni Milano in 1981. Thanks to Istituto Marangoni he started his first work experience with Elio Fiorucci where he specialized in the denim manufacturing. The meeting with Giorgio Armani…

Fashion designer from South America, Alexia Ulibarri currently lives in Mexico City, where she launched her namesake brand ALEXIA ULIBARRI in 2009. In the same year, she presented her first women’s collection titled “Dark Romance“. Since then, she has actively participated in all the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Mexico editions, proving very successful at each…

Born in Salerno in 1989 Alessandra left her classical studies to join her dream and study fashion design, accidentally meeting a girl in Ibiza who was already attending Istituto Marangoni Milano. After her graduation in fashion design, three-year course, Alessandra started her career in Philipp Plein as an intern. After 10 months personal assisting the…

Barbara Grotto, daughter of the President and founder of GAS, Claudio Grotto, was born in 1974 breathing the scent of denim deeply. One of her most vivid child memories is the high pile of jeans ready for shipment that accumulated in the laboratory under her house. Over the years that laboratory has been transformed into…

Eddie Gavriilidis is a Greek born designer graduated from Istituto Marangoni London. He was nominated for the Global Fashion Awards in New York and worked with top industry designers like Alexander McQueen, Tom ford and Lady Gaga. His work has been featured in the most influential international press:Vogue, Figaro, In style, telegraph, Times among others….

Sabrina is a Chinese designer born in Italy. She began her private journey as a fashion designer when she launched her own brand Ombra in 2013, in pursuit of her own design willingness. With the meaning of “shadow” in Italian, Ombra reflects the concept that everyone is born to be unique no matter what conditions…

Olga Vilshenko is a Russian fashion designer and entrepreneur who has been working in the fashion industry since 2008: Olga founded her own brand in 2011. Born in 1978 in Zlatoust, a city in the Ural Region of Russia, she was inspired by her mother’s talent in sewing and knitting: despite her job as an…

He currently designs accessories and furniture for “Versace” and “Versace Home”. Giulio was born in Como, an area of excellence in Italy’s furniture design industry. After his high-school diploma as Industrial Technical expert, he moved to the UK and worked as a textile designer for the London’s leading print design studio Westcott-Design Ltd. Here he…

She is only 26, and she is already a very influential figure in the world of Latin American fashion. Born in the United States and raised in Mexico City, Valentina Collado works as a Fashion Editor at Vogue México y Latinoamérica. After studying Fashion Styling in France, she studied Fashion Design at Istituto Marangoni. Back…

Born in Pasto, Colombia, Adriana Santacruz has focused her work as a fashion designer on the study of the weaving techniques, which the Los Pastos inhabitants have developed one generation after another. For them weaving is more than a job: it is a way of life and thought in which the technical knowledge and spiritual…

Naza Yousefi graduated in 2008 from Istituto Marangoni London, where she currently works as a tutor in the Fashion Design and Business programme. In 2015, she founded Yuzefi, a leatherwear brand launched through a tote bag collection she is currently selling on her online store. Yousefi kicked off her career designing collections in the studios…

Born in Istanbul, Burce Bekrek graduated from Istanbul’s Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Textile and Fashion Design, with an honors degree. Bekrek studied Image Consultancy at Istituto Marangoni. Later she decided to stay at Istituto Marangoni to follow a master’s course in Fashion Styling. Meanwhile, she worked on projects for D&G and Dsquared2. Upon completion of the Master’s…

Ines Barona Coghlan, young Fashion Designer with a passion for Italian design, already boasts as many as nine years of experience in the swimsuit industry at international level. In 2010, she launched the Ines Barona Swimmwear brand in her country of origin, Mexico, with an exclusive proposal of swimsuits praised by many industry experts, including…

Born in Palermo in 1961, Maurizio Pecoraro became interested in men’s tailoring while still a child. The budding young designer decided to consolidate his natural talent; he moved to Milano and studied at Istituto Marangoni while working as a buyer for a major Swiss chain of boutiques. His creative talents attracted the attention of the…

A lot of the School projects involved taking your own personal brand to the next level, which helped me hone in my idea, and by the end of the course, I had a much clearer vision of what I wanted to do. I launched my own swimwear brand, SAMMY, while still in School and I…

He graduated from Istituto Marangoni in 2009. In the same year, together with an industrial designer, he founded DAAFportal, the DAAFsociety portal for designers, architects, artists and fashion industry experts, which published online in 2011. Also in 2009, he opened Ouchstudio as an operational studio of interior design and product design. The studio developed Interior…

Born in Arezzo, Italy, Manuela studied fa­shion and theatrical costume in high scho­ol and went on to get a degree in Fashion Design at Istituto Marangoni, graduating in 2000. She was assistant designer for Juni­chi Hakamaki Milanoand then designed both mens’ and womenswear for Versace while using her experience of the fashion industry to tutor…

Her imagination is multifaceted, bringing her to experiment and find inspiration in nature and art. Interested in the research and development of sophisticated textures with three-dimensional effects and geometric cuts, she willingly enriches her clothes with original sculptural details. Backed by two years of experience in graphic and photographic studios in Italy, she studied fashion…

Benedetta De Mennato was born in Naples in 1992. After graduating from high school, she moves to Milano to study Fashion Design in Istituto Marangoni. Immediately showing her passion and love for fashion, she is chosen among the best graduating students for the exclusive end-of-the-year Fashion Show, where she presents her leather outfits sponsored by…

A young Greek designer with an eclectic and biting style, Christina Economou recently founded her own independent brand and is ready now to dress an autonomous and fearless woman with her two collections, Spring/Summer 2014 and Fall/Winter 2014. In 2011 she graduated in Fashion Design from Istituto Marangoni Paris. Having been selected by Istituto Marangoni…

Andrea Bonini was born in Verona in 1985 and studied Interior and Product Design at the Istituto Marangoni in Milan. At the same time, he started working in design studios and then went on to collaborate with several design studios and brands in the industry in Verona and Milan, where he became project manager of…

She was raised between her native Finland and Belgium, where her family moved when she was 4 years old. They travelled a lot throughout her childhood, which gave her a curiosity for new cultures from an early age. She believes this open-mindedness and curiosity can still be seen in her work. She gets very inspired…

After attending a Fashion Business course at the University of Glasgow, in 2019 Tang Shuo graduated at Istituto Marangoni Shanghai, majoring in BA in Fashion Design. Her graduation work “A Lazy Choice” was selected to be one of best graduated work in Shanghai Fashion Week ss2020. Tang Shuo received an offer as top 20 applicants…

Designer and stylist, Cori Amenta launched her first shoes collection signed ‘coriamenta’ in 2012. After graduating in Fashion Design from Istituto Marangoni Milano, Cori Amenta started her career as a stylist at Class Editori and Il Sole 24 Ore, as well as she signed an exclusive rights contract as a Celebrity Stylist with Dolce &…

From her childhood in Brazil to the interview in Vogue UK. This is the path of Barbara Casasola, emerging designer already acclaimed for her style by stars of the calibre of Gwyneth Paltrow. Born and raised in Brazil, where her grandmother passed on to her her passion for fashion, she studied first in London and…

Born in 1988 in Istanbul, Merve Ucar graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University with a degree of Fashion and Textile Design in 2008. During her studies, she worked as an intern at Ramsey and Arzu Kaprol. In 2010 she started collaborating with Arzu Kaprol, designing Corporate wear within the Kaprol Group for companies such…

Jonathan Scarpari is a talented designer with an eclectic personality: born and raised in Brazil in a family of Italian origins, he graduated in chemistry at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre. It was only in 2010, when he met Helen Rodel and became her personal assistant, that he…

Born in Cordoba, in Spain, in 1989, Miguel Garcia Abad studied Fashion Design at the Istituto Marangoni schools in Milano and London. In 2010, he completed his training with a capsule collection inspired by the use of fibre optics, and went on to win the Swarovski Elements competition in 2010, establishing in this way a…

Zaid Farouki has always known that his future would be in the fashion world. He graduated in Business Administration in Washington, fed his passion for art by studying painting, sculpture and multimedia, and has been writing about fashion and style on his fashion blog zaiddor.com for some years now. Nonetheless, only when he got to…

Li Xuan Wang is 26 years old and of Chinese origin. She came to Istituto Marangoni Milano to study Fashion Design more than 5 years ago and is full of passion for fashion. She gave her best in the three-year fashion course and has had a lot of amazing opportunities to achieve her dream goal….

Umit Benan was born to Turkish parents in 1980 in Stuttgart, Germany. He moved to Istanbul when he was 2 years old and lived there until he was 15, dividing his time between school and work at his family’s textile company. After graduating from high school in Lugano, Switzerland in 1998, he moved to Boston…

Italian native Paglialunga’s career started at Romeo Gigli in the early 90’s where he served as the founder’s closest collaborator. In 1996 he joined Prada to collaborate for over 10 years arriving to assume the role as Womenswear design director. Early 2009 Paglialunga left Prada to become Creative Director for the house of Vionnet. After…

Born in Lodi in 1982, after art and design studies, Armando attended DAMS in Bologna. A strong creative drive and the first professional experiences led him quickly into the world of fashion and, thanks to this passion, in 2003 he began attending Istituto Marangoni School of Fashion. The time spent at Istituto Marangoni allowed him to…

Sofia Colasante, born in 1991 in the province of Salerno, is passionate about Art in all of its forms and since 2015 she has been designing women’s garments creating collections that bear her signature. Sofia attended the Fashion Design course at Istituto Marangoni Milano and completed her first academic path in 2012 winning the “Best…

Born in Istanbul, Zeynep Tosun studied Business Administration and continued her academic training at Istituto Marangoni, studying Fashion Design, also attending summer-school. In the summer of 2005 she did her first intern-ship at Derishow-Turkey. After attending fashion designing courses for a year, she was accepted to masters program study at Marangoni. During her masters degree…

Marianna Senchina has been producing her own collections since she was very young. After she attended the University of Technology and Design in Ukraine, where she had also opened her first atelier with a number of loyal customers, she then attended Istituto Marangoni’s Fashion Design Program. Thanks to her talent and strong commitment, Marianna was…

After graduating in law in Moscow, she discovered her artistic aptitude and changed her sphere of interest, participating as a painter in art exhibitions in Russia and Brazil. She then studied interior design at the Moscow Architectural Institute and started designing both in Moscow and in St. Petersburg, where in 2007 she opened her own…

Known as China’s youngest independent designer, Haotian Wen moved to Paris when he was only 18. There he studied fashion design at Studio Berçot and then took a three-year course at Istituto Marangoni. In 2011, he founded the namesake brand HAOTIAN WEN in Paris, and a year later he released HAOTIAN WEN’s 2013 Spring/ Summer…

Born and raised in the mountains of south-eastern Brazil, since his childhood Francisco Terra showed a strong passion for fashion magazines. After his studies in business administration, he attended film school and took a degree in video and photography. In 2007, he finally achieved his dream of moving to Paris. He then entered the Center…

She currently works in London as a designer associated with Puma by Hussein Chalayan. Louise takes the inspiration for her creations from situations beyond fashion: from architecture, biology, graphic effects on TV shows, as was the case with her collection “Decayed Pethio” which refers to the drama series “True Blood”. She carefully mixes heavy materials…

KAI founded his own fashion studio in 2012 and named it after himself KAIXIANG. He strives for detail-orientated methods in cutting and designing, resulting in a delicate and luxurious style which is comfortable and yet simple at the same time. Women who wear KAIXIANG are said to be blessed with a unique understanding of fashion…

Born in 1984 in Catanzaro, he matured with artistic promise. He studied Fashion Design at Istituto Marangoni, graduating with honors. After an experience at Dolce & Gabbana in 2006, he joined the creative team of Giorgio Armani to design the men’s collections. He was also appointed director of the Emporio Armani red line. declared an emerging…

He graduated from the Art Institute Ballardini in Faenza. He attended a course in fashion design at Istituto Marangoni, where he perfected his technique, graduating in 2009. He began working as a freelance designer creating collections of fancy ornamental headwear that bear his name, they are unique pieces made ​​by hand. Combining his passion for…

Born in Bergamo 1972, Alessandra Facchinetti studied art, sculpture and architecture, before dedicating herself to fashion, graduating at Istituto Marangoni Milano. Her versatile aesthetic and international background led her to seek different experiences in some of the most prestigious fashion houses, including the Prada Group, where she made her debut in 1994 as a designer…

Julie de Libran was raised in Vernègues, a small village close to Baux de Provence in the south of France, by her wine producer turned restaurateur father and interior designer mother who was perpetually decked in Yves Saint Laurent, Hermès, and Sonia Rykiel. When she was 8 years old, her father moved the brood to…

Interior designer for the showroom Herricasa in Crema, where she performs on-site inspections, preparation of two-dimensional designs, design consulting and finally the processing in 3D and cost estimates. She graduated in interior design from Istituto Marangoni. In December 2010, she began working with the company Herricasa, a furniture showroom in Crema (CR), which has world-class…

Amina Aranaz is one of the Philippines’ most recognized accessory designers, with a passion for fashion and creativity handed down to her by her mother, who has been in the bag business for over 30 years manufacturing pieces for top designer labels. In 2014, she was listed among the 20 Philippine Fashion Forces by Preview…

Elizaveta works in Burberry’s headquarters in London as a wholesale executive in charge of the development of emerging markets and as director of Burberry’s Prorsum line. Previously she was an assistant at Givenchy and a consultant for Harrod’s department store for jewellery and luxury watches. She studied Fashion Business at Istituto Marangoni in London. “Without…

Taking the Masters in Fashion & Luxury Brand Management helped me broaden my network, with professors, industry professionals, and classmates, who I now call my good friends. It opened the doors to business opportunities and raised the level of the work I was doing. From the first semester, I began to notice the difference in the…