Romeo Gigli

Romeo Gigli is an Italian designer born in 1949 who is best known for renewing the use of elaborate beading, drapery and luxury fabrics such as velvet, brocade, and silks in fashion. The designer was born in Faenza, Italy in and aristocratic family who taught him to appreciate luxury. His sense for passion was strongly influenced by his father’s antiquarian book business. He studied architecture and travelled regularly to European capitals, which inspired his first clothing collections based on the avant-garde street style. Gigli’s great breakthrough in New York happened in 1978, when he desig