Giancarlo di risio biography
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RENAISSANCE MANIT HOLDING&#;S GIANCARLO DI RISIO MANAGES A MOTLEY MIX OF BRANDS,..
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IT HOLDING&#;S GIANCARLO DI RISIO MANAGES A MOTLEY MIX OF BRANDS, AND HE INTENDS TO KEEP IT THAT WAY.
Byline: SAMANTHA CONTI
MILAN &#; Ask Giancarlo Di Risio to define luxury, and he&#;ll säga it&#;s all about luscious cashmere knits &#; but also quilted nylon motorcycle helmets. The managing director of IT Holding, one of Italy&#;s newest mode groups, Di Risio believes luxe comes in many shapes and sizes, and he fryst vatten pinning ITH&#;s future on that belief.
&#;We view the luxury goods market as highly segmented,&#; said Di Risio, speaking from ITH&#;s headquarters in the southern Italian town of Isernia. &#;At the top, there&#;s Malo&#;s pure luxury, and at the bottom there&#;s Husky&#;s technical luxury. In between, there is mode, experimental and contemporary luxury.
&#;In our segmented group,&#; he explained, &#;there&#;s no danger of brand cannibalization, and we can spre
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Former Fendi, Versace CEO Giancarlo Di Risio Dies in Rome
MILAN — Former fashion executive Giancarlo Di Risio has died in Rome. He was in a coma after he suffered a heart and respiratory collapse in
A funeral service will be held on Wednesday in Isernia, in the Italian Molise region. Di Risio was born nearby in the small town of Pettoranello del Molise in
He spent 15 years working under Tonino Perna at IT Holding, which owned manufacturing arm Ittierre, and was once one of Italy’s fastest-growing fashion groups.
As chief executive officer of Isernia-based Ittierre, Di Risio was instrumental in developing the younger lines&#; business for designer brands such as Versace, Trussardi, Roberto Cavalli and Dolce & Gabbana in the Nineties. Ittierre pioneered the idea of designer jeans and diffusion line licenses.
Di Risio forged a strong relationship with Versace, convincing the fashion house in the late Eighties to launch the Versus collection. A few years la
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Versace
Italian luxury fashion house in Milan
For other uses, see Versace (disambiguation).
Gianni Versace S.r.l. (Italian:[ˈdʒanniverˈsaːtʃe]), usually referred to as Versace (vər-SAH-chay),[a] is an Italian luxury elite fashion company founded by Gianni Versace in [7] The company produces Italian-made ready-to-wear and accessories, as well as haute couture under its Atelier Versace brand[8] and licenses its name and branding to Luxottica for eyewear.[9] Gianni Versace being a native of Calabria, in the ancient Magna Grecia (Greater Greece), the company logo is inspired by Medusa, a figure from Greek mythology.[10]
The Brand was founded in by Gianni Versace and run after his death by his family: his brother Santo Versace and sister Donatella Versace while Donatella's daughter, Allegra Versace Beck, became the controlling shareholder having inherited her uncle Gianni's share. Her brother Daniel inherited much of