Gian Marco Venturi is Italian fashion designer born in 1955 in Florence, Italy. He was educated at the Istituto Tessile Butti in Prato where he acquired a degree in economics and commerce from Florence University. He entered the fashion business in1974 and started working with some of the most popular Italian companies such as Domitilla, Lebole and Erreuno. Graziella Ronchi hired Venturi in 1979 to design for her Erreuno collections. He was in charge of developing and establishing the soft, neutral look combined with architectural correctness which later became trademark of the company. He est