talents
of
istituto
marangoni
On the threshold of its 80th anniversary, Istituto Marangoni is proud to celebrate talent and success of its alumni, telling their
stories and remembering the steps into their prestigious careers. They are ex-students who attended and succesfully graduated the Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes at the Fashion and Design Schools in Milano, Paris, London and
Shanghai.
Founded in 1935, the mission of Istituto Marangoni is to develop abilities and grow new talents, always keeping an eye on
furnishing those who choose the school for their education with the skills most needed for creative self-expression.
Istituto Marangoni today is an established and recognized laboratory of aesthetic European-style culture with the finest
Italian imprinting, which collaborates with the most interesting names in the sector and where teachers are able to pass on
their expertise to the excellence of tomorrow.
In the classrooms of the fashion schools of Istituto Marangoni in Milano, Paris, London and Shanghai, four generations
of professionals from 92 countries, over 4,000 individuals, have tested their talents representing the historic patrimony
of the institute. Each year more than 3,000 talented students participate in the exhaustive offer of a multilingual set
of courses and enjoy an incomparable network of alumni, a precious source of work contacts, cultural exchanges and
inspirational projects.
The names shared into this book are just a small part of Istituto Marangoni’s uniqueness, students that over the years
have become internationally recognized: names such as Franco Moschino, Domenico Dolce (Dolce & Gabbana),
Maurizio Pecoraro, Alessandra Facchinetti (Tod’s), Alessandro Sartori (Berluti), Francesco Russo (Dior), Carolina
Castiglioni (Marni) and many more.
This, in brief, is ‘Marangoniness’, a unique and precious mix, born from the encounter between a historic school with
its foundations ‘inside’ the industry, with professionals coming from the best companies in the sector, teaching not
only their everyday work experience but inevitably bringing their pragmatic approach into the classrooms.
This is the mix that makes the dreams of students become their brillant careers of tomorrow.
Roberto Riccio
Group Managing Director
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moschino’s
creative director
& brand owner
franco moschino
Country
Italy
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Three Year Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
1980
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. In 1983 he made the first fashion show
of Moschino women’s collection, presented in Milano. In 1984, the second women’s wear
fashion show at the Fiera in Milano confirmed the success of the previous season. Then,
in 1985, the first Moschino men’s wear collection was presented at the Regal Palace
in Milano. His career was raising and, in 1986, he launched the first ‘Moschino Jeans’
women’s wear collection. After that, in 1987, the Maison launched its first fragrance and,
in 1988, the first Moschino ‘Cheap and Chic’ collection.
A very important year was the 1989, when he opened the first Moschino boutique in
Milano, via S. Andrea. The second boutique opened in 1990 in Via Durini, Milano, for the
‘Cheap and Chic’ and ‘Moschino Jeans’ collections. In 1991 Franco Moschino decides
to stop having fashion shows, and in 1992 he launched his first ‘social awareness’
advertising campaign. In 1993 an exhibition is held in Milano to celebrate the first ten
years of Moschino’s and the book ‘X years of Kaos’ is published. In this year a fashion
show of historical dresses is held at the National Theatre, in Milano.
In 1994 Franco Moschino dies on the 18th of September.
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tod’s
creative director
julie
de libran
Country
France
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Three Year Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
1991
alessandra
facchinetti
Country
Italy
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Three Year Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
1994
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 and co-ordinator for the brand
MiuMiu; Gucci, where she started working in 2000 as Design Director of women’s prêt-à-porter; Moncler, for which
she launched Gamme Rouge in 2006; the house of Valentino, who called her in 2008 to develop prêt-à-porter
and Haute Couture; and finally the launch, in 2010, of
her first personal project, ‘Uniqueness’, which is an experiment in ‘seasonless’ fashion, exclusively online. Today
Alessandra is Creative Director at Tod’s.
Julie 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 America. She spent the ‘80s in the United States.
Some of her earliest and happiest memories
are of visiting the tailor with her mother and
grandmother to be fitted for smock dresses.
But when it came to shopping, she never
found what she wanted in stores. During
high school, she drew some sketches and
took them to a seamstress. Her father,
seeing the signs, enrolled her in fashion
school, at Istituto Marangoni Milano where
she studied Fashion Design. As soon as
she graduated in 1991, she found a place at Dior, before moving to Versace. And
then, in 1998, she joined Prada where she
stayed for 10 and a half years. After a long
experience in position of power at Louis
Vuitton, she moved to Sonia Rykiel, where
she is now channelling all that knowledge
into collections that show her concern for
detail and narrative.
sonia rykiel’s
creative director
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maurizio pecoraro’s
creative director
& brand owner
maurizio
pecoraro
Country
Italy
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Three Year Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
1988
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 Thierry Mugler house, for whom he worked in Paris. Back
in Italy to finish his studies, he joined Versace, taking over the ‘Art
of Alma’ collection in 1989. The extraordinary success of this collection led to a six-year collaboration with Versace and to designing
and creating for fashion houses of the calibre of Antonio Fusco, Les
Copains and others. He debuted in 1998 with the first collection in
his name, then went to India to work with the finest technical embroiderers and to form a new, contemporary ethnic style. Appreciated by
celebrities, his style is distinguished by tailoring and elegance expressed freely and lawlessly. The press included his name among the most
exclusive in international pret-à-porter. In August of 1991 he made the
cover of French Vogue. In June of 2000 his name was included among
those representing ‘The New Modern’ in the American edition of Elle.
HDP acquired the brand in 2001 and Valentino called Maurizio to direct the
launch of the Valentino Roma line. In the mean time, Queen Rania of Jordan
hosted the Queen Mother in one of Maurizio’s outfits and the two collaborated closely together on designs. This success was followed in January
2003 by the Best Italian Talent award from AltaRoma. In February 2014 he
opened his first store in Milano. Among his future projects is the opening of
a new concept store in Paris and the consolidation of his brand in the European market after clear confirmation of its popularity among Asian countries.
rodolfo
paglialunga
Country
Italy
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Three Year Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
1989
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 that experience, he
moved to Jil Sander, where he is now Creative Director.
jil sander’s
creative director
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marco mazzoran
berluti’s
artistic director
Country
Italy
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Three Year Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
1981
alessandro
sartori
Country
Italy
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Three Year Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
1989
Alessandro Sartori was born in Biella, Italy. He studied fashion and design at Istituto Marangoni Milano, 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 as artistic director. In his
personal Pantheon, his mother, a tailoress who gave him
the taste and the techniques of made-to-measure, has
a special place, just next to Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel
and the photographer Irving Penn. Creative imagination, disciplined technique and poetic elegance are
his keywords. From pattern cutting to the finishing of
a buttonhole, no detail escapes his eye. For Berluti,
he creates collections that blend rigorous control
with fantasy, a distillation of the soul and spirit of
the House.
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 signed another turn in his life: ‘Work next to Mr.Armani has been for me a
fashion university’. From the 1991 to the 1997 he started to move his attention and
his abilities from the style to the product department. After Giorgio Armani, Marco Angelo Mazzoran has opened his career to new experiences also in the merchandising
field: Jil Sander and Antonio Fusco (design and product development director) Loro
Piana and Aspery (product and production director) Warnaco, Calvin Klein Jeans
and Roberto Cavalli (merchandising and product development director). From May
2014, Marco Angelo Mazzoran is Menswear Fashion Director for Coin Group. His
challenge will be to use his managerial and creative skills to increase the processes of development for the ready to wear and accessories menswear collections.
coin group’s
menswear
fashion director
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umit
benan
Country
Turkey
Attended Course
Fashion Design Intensive • One Year Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
2003
andrea pompilio’s
creative director
& brand owner
andrea
pompilio
Country
Italy
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Master’s Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
1995
Andrea Pompilio grew up in a highly creative environment, his father
being an architect, his mother a passionate painter and hailing from
a family traditionally involved in the clothing industry. Born in 1973,
Andrea got in touch with the fashion system at an early age, at his
grandmother’s store in Pesaro (Marche) and started being familiar
with fabrics and trends. Still a child he decides that he will become
a designer. After graduating at the Art Institute in Pesaro, he moved to Milano to continue his studies at Istituto Marangoni where
he obtained a master’s course in Fashion Design. He then collaborated with renowned Italian and international brands, such as
Alessandro dell’Acqua, Prada, Calvin Klein and Yves Saint Laurent; these experiences enabled him to develop a personal and
sophisticated style, extremely focused on quality and details,
blending a rigorous sartorial character with a contemporary urban feel. In January 2010 Andrea was ready to start a personal path, hence launched his first namesake men’s collection
for season AW 2010/2011. Within two years the brand has
been recognized by both the Italian and international press
as one of the most remarkable and innovative realities in
menswear. The collections distributed world wide at some
of the world’s most prestigious multi brand stores.
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 to study marketing and public relations at college.
During his time in the United States he decided to become a fashion designer and spent summers in Milano taking
drawing lessons. Upon earning his BA (Hons) Degree, he
moved to Milano to follow the master’s programme in Fashion Design at Istituto Marangoni. After gaining experience at Marc Jacobs, under Sophie Théallet at François
Nars’ Motu Tane label and with Rifat Ozbek at Pollini, he
launched his eponymous label Umit Benan in 2009 and
won the first men’s edition of the Who’s On Next competition by Alta Roma with his second collection.
Umit
Benan became fashion consultant for Trussardi 1911 in
2012, designing for both menswear and womenswear
lines. He showed his first menswear collection in Milan
for Spring/Summer 2013.
umit benan’s
creative director
& brand owner
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Country
China
chi zhang
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Master’s Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
2006
Born in Beijing, at the age of 16 he moved to
England to complete his secondary education.
After graduating from Istituto Marangoni Milano
with a masters in Fashion Design, he came back
to the United Kingdom and launched his
menswear brand. Back in Beijing, he opened his
own studio. He has won awards from prestigious
organizations, such as CCTV and China National
Garment Association. In 2009 and 2011 he was
declared ‘designer of the year’ by Esquire China.
original marines’
style & product
office manager
massimiliano
spadola
Country
Italy
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Three Year Course
School
Milano
zhang chi’s
fashion designer
& brand owner
Graduation Year
1994
Massimiliano attended the three-year course in Fashion Design at
Istituto Marangoni Milano and graduated in 1994. During his career,
he acquired different values and learnt important working skills, but
remained attached to a few specific companies, which have strongly
contributed to his personal and professional growth: Sergio Tacchini,
where he gained a thorough understanding of the process of building
a collection, both in terms of product and development, discovering the
true meaning of team spirit; Versace, where he improved his creativity
and learnt about the materials versatility and processing techniques;
Gianfranco Ferrè, where he had the opportunity to appreciate geometry
in its simplicity as well as aesthetic neatness, taste and the seemingly
most negligible finest detail. He is currently in charge of the style and
product office for Original Marines, undertaking a professional path that
has very different planning and production routes from those followed
in recent years.
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gabriella
busnelli
Country
Italy
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Three Year Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
1995
Gabriella Busnelli graduated from Istituto Marangoni MIlano in 1995. She started
drawing sketches, and today she design collections. She is Collection Director in
VF Corporation for the brand Napapijri women; she deals with all aspects of the
collection, from trends of the moment to market and competitor analysis, from price segmentation to defining the structure of the collection, colour planning and
management of the designers’ activity. After her graduation and two formative internships, she won a contest organized by United Colors of Benetton, which gave
her the opportunity to have a scholarship in an important company. Her adventure
in the fashion world began in the company based in Veneto and continued with
various experiences for brands such as Paul & Shark, Cerruti, Colmar and Marina
Yachting among others.
napapijri’s
collection director
harper’s bazaar
thailand’s
editor in chief
duang
poshyanonda
Country
Thailand
Attended Course
Fashion Communication & New Media • Master’s Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
2004
To many originality is an art, to “Duang” Wannaporn Poshyanonda it’s an institution. Currently an Editor in Chief of Harper’s BAZAAR Thailand, Duang is publicly well known by her signature scarlet lips with eccentric style of fashion.
Before taking a top position, she had been a contributing fashion editor of
Harper’s BAZAAR during 2006 to 2007. Duang has been titled as School
Director of Istituto Marangoni Information Center Thailand since 2004.
In a year 2010 she launched a limited line of handbags under her very own
brand ‘RougeRouge’. Inspired by Surreal Art, the line is popular among
Thai Fashionistas. A distinctive personal style together with trademark
red lips of Duang has enchanted many in the industry. Her influence
to the fashion trend in Bangkok could be proved particularly through a
fashion project featured Siam Paragon Department Store called ‘Blame
it on summer’. Awarded Distinction with Honors by Istituto Marangoni
Milano, a leading institute in a global fashion industry, she holds a master’s course in Fashion Communication & New Media.
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burce bekrek’s
creative director
& brand owner
burce bekrek
Country
Turkey
Attended Course
Fashion Styling • Master’s Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
2006
Born in Istanbul, Burce Bekrek graduated from Istanbul’s Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts,
Textile and Fashion Design, with an honors degree. Bekrek then relocated to Italy to study the Image
Consultancy course at Istituto Marangoni Milano. Later she decided to stay on at Istituto Marangoni
to follow a master’s course in Fashion Styling. Meanwhile, she worked at the projects for D&G and
Dsquared2. Upon completion of the Master’s in Fashion Styling, with honors, she moved back to
her hometown of Istanbul to take up the role of trend and concept advisor, working alongside her
father at ‘Burce Textile’, a family-owned textile company. In 2008, Burce received Fashion TV Turkey’s ‘Most Promising Fashion Designer’ award and started working as an instructor at Yeditepe
University Faculty of Fine Arts, Fashion and Textile Design Department. As a freelancer, her
commercial fashion designs were used by major brands such as Porsche, Audi and Bentley,
for the AutoShow fair. In December 2010, Bekrek established her own brand, ‘Burce Bekrek’.
With her first collection, she showed at a catwalk show organized in the Netherlands Consulate General in Istanbul, Turkey. And she has also been nominated in the Elle Style Awards
Turkey for Young Designer. Over three years she developed a unique signature style among
modern designs with a focus on clean cuts, excellent fit and high quality fabrics. In 2013,
Burce Bekrek became a part of the ‘Fashion Incube Istanbul’ project and was a consultant
for CFE London. She also showcased her Spring/Summer 2014 collection at ‘Paris Sur
Mode’ during Paris Fashion Week and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Istanbul. Recently,
she designed a ‘White Shirt Line’ for the famous multilabel brands store Bilstore under
the name of ‘Burce Bekrek for Bils’ in Istanbul and showcased her new Fall/Winter
2014 collection at Who’s Next Paris.
giorgio armani’s
senior designer
rocco
iannone
Country
Italy
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Three Year Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
2006
Born in 1984 in Catanzaro, he matured
with artistic promise. Then he moved to
Milano and studied fashion design at Istituto Marangoni, graduating with honours.
After an experience in 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 talent by Vogue Magazine
in 2010, he took part in the Mango Fashion Awards in Barcelona.
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valentina
di pinto
Country
Italy
Attended Course
Fashion Styling • Three Year Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
2004
Valentina attended the three-year course in Fashion Styling at Istituto Marangoni Milano and graduated in 2004. At the end of 2004 she had her internship
in Condé Nast, where her story begun. She started as Stylists Assistant, following some fashion stylists who were working with the magazine, after that
she moved her first steps as a fashion stylist. At the end of 2009 she went
ahead with her career, shooting the main stories of Glamour Italia. In 2011
she moved to New York, where she had her own projects, but she kept her
collaboration with Glamour Italia. When she was still living in the States, she
received the proposal to become Fashion Senior Editor in Glamour and,
since April 2012, she is in charge of it. In these years she collaborated
with many fashion companies, working on their catalogues and on their
advertisign campaigns.
karl lagerfeld’s
product development
manager
veronica ambrosetti
glamour’s
fashion editor
director
Country
Italy
Attended Course
Fashion Business • Three Year Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
2005
Veronica attended the three-year course in Fashion Business at Istituto
Marangoni Milano and graduated in June 2005. Her pathway started immediately in 2005 as Product Manager in some fashion companies, but
was in 2007 when she reised her career with Hugo Boss, where she
worked for 5 years covering important positions as Creative Manager
and Coordinator Manager for man’s and leather accessories. At the
beginning of 2012 she started a new adventure, moving to Amsterdam and working for Karl Lagerfeld, as product development manager man’s and women’s shoes, leathers and soft accessories.
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manuela
boneto rodriguez
paula cademartori’s
creative director
& brand owner
Country
Brazil
Attended Course
Fashion & Luxury Brand Management • Master’s Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
2006
Manuela was born in 1979 in Brazil, with Italian descendance and a true
passion for Design. Her studies and career choices led to a specialization in
Luxury Leather Goods Merchandising, having lived in NY and Milano for the
past 9 years. In 1997 entered the Universities of Business and Architecture.
Studied Business Administration for 3 years and graduated with a Bachelor’s
Degree in Architecture & Urbanism in 2002/3. After 4 years of Architecture
school, a trial semester of Fashion Design in Florida at the Art Institute of Ft.
Lauderdale (2001) convinced her to focus her career in Fashion. Back to
Brazil, her Final Year and Graduation Project in the Architecture University was
a ‘Fashion School’, awarded with the possibility to partcipate at the National
Contest. In 2003 spent a year in Europe to study Spanish, Italian, and French,
strenghthening language skills to live abroad and work in Fashion. In 2004
worked on a few architecture/interior design projects. Late 2004 pursued a
Master’s Degree in Fashion Design at Parsons NY in the US, with multiple
awards and projects selected for exposition. Within the next 2 years, worked
with Anna Sui and Coviello, collaborating in every aspect of the collections
from sketching illustrations to designing patterns, from researching materials
to following up production. Moved to Milano in 2006 to pursue a Brand Management Master’s Course at Istituto Marangoni. In 2007 developed a Marketing/
Merchandising Project for Italian brand “Sweet Years” during final semester at
Istituto Marangoni, earning an invitation to work at FGF, licensee of Sweet Years
and Blauer brands. In 2008 started working for Sergio Rossi and Gucci Group,
where collaborated for 5 years, initially as Merchandising Assistant, being promoted Merchandising Manager for all lines in 2011. After 2 years is invited to work
for Giorgio Armani as Merchandising Manager for the women shoes lines, position
held since November 2012.
paula cademartori
Country
Brazil
Attended Course
Fashion Accessories Design • Master’s Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
2006
Paula, with Italian and Brazilian origin, moved to Italy in 2005, after
having graduated in Industrial Design in Brazil. In Milano, she continued her academic training, obtaining a master in Fashion Accessories with Magna cum Laude at Istituto Marangoni and then
the certificate of ‘Young Fashion Manager’ from the Università
SDA Bocconi. 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 she was included in the list of 140
Emerging Designers of Vogue Italia. September 2010 marked the
international debut of her brand with the presentation of the first
collection of bags created for Spring/Summer 2011.
giorgio armani’s
women shoes
merchandising
manager
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larusmiani’s
woman’s collection
head of design
alice etro
Country
Italy
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Three Year Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
2009
With fashion in her blood, Alice Etro entered the fashion business as a designer very young,
at the age of 25. She was born in Milano on 15th August 1987, her mother, Monica Bottigelli
of the Miani family, and her father, Kean Etro of the Maison family, carrying the same name.
Growing up in the ‘City of Fashion’, Alice graduated from the German school and then successfully completed the three-year course of Fashion Design at Istituto Marangoni, nurturing family
talents. Her creations, the collection designed for her final examination, showed on the catwalks
of Milano and Paris. On graduating at Istituto Marangoni, she started working at Larusmiani, a
family-run business where her uncle Guglielmo Miani is Managing Director. Alice began as Liborio Capizzi’s assistant and then, after having co-operated with many young creative designers, she
debuted with her first collection, creating FW2013/14 Larusmani’s Women’s Collection.
zeynep
tosun
Country
Turkey
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Master’s Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
2006
Born in Istanbul, Zeynep Tosun studied Business Administration and continued
her academic training at Istituto Marangoni Milano, Italy, studying Fashion Design, also attending summer-school. In the summer of 2005 she did her first
internship at Derishow-Turkey. After studying fashion design for a year, she
was accepted onto the Master’s Course at Istituto Marangoni Milano. During
her master’s she took illustration, digital fashion and pattern and fashion history classes. On graduating, she held her first fashion show in London on
July 2006, after which Alberta Ferretti offered her a job. She was part of the
design team at Alberta Feretti, where she improved her skills in haute couture and artistry. After a year she moved back to Turkey, where she participated
in ITKIB’s young designers contest in 2007 and won the 3rd place. In the
meantime she took part in Esin Maraslioglu’s Designloft project. This gave
her a platform on which to present her 15-look collection with 8 other young
designers. In addition she worked as a design consultant. Following the Design Loft project, for three months she worked as an assistant to Ece Ege,
the creator and designer of the Dice Kayek brand. In September 2008
she established her own brand. At present, she designs custom-made
haute couture outfits and has her own ready-to-wear collection. Zeynep
Tosun has a store in a shopping mall called Akmerkez and a showroom in
Akatlar. Her goal is to expand her brand in the Turkish market and to be a
globally known brand in 5-6 years.
zeynep tosun’s
creative director
& brand owner
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katja loustarinen
Country
Finland
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Three Year Course
him and her’s
creative director
& brand owner
ploi horwang
Country
Thailand
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Four Year Sandwich Course
School
London
Graduation Year
2008
She started her the four-year course in Fashion Design in 2004 at Istituto Marangoni London and graduated top of her class in 2008. She
moved back to Thailand right after she graduated and started her own
business. She has been working with various brands in Bangkok such
as NASHA (sports brand) and Viera by Raggazze (leather handbags
and shoes) for the experience, and started her own brand in 2010 called Him and Her. Ploi has also worked in various fields such as Radio
(DJ on fashion tips and trendy places to hangout) and TV hosting for
fashion programs. In 2013, she had the opportunity to work for Harper’s Bazaar Thailand as a social media editor.
School
Paris
Graduation Year
2010
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 by foreign cultures, their traditional attires and
patterns, and finding ways to transform those into modern fashion. Being always interested
in art and in culture in general, she started thinking of fashion as a career possibility in high
school. She enrolled on a short course in Istituto Marangoni Milano, and a year after the
three-year course in Fashion Design at Istituto Marangoni Paris. She knew before starting
her studies that menswear design was her true passion, and she chose to specialize in it.
During and after her studies, she interned at several places, which were great experiences
in learning how different types of companies work and structure themselves. In September
2012 she became a junior Menswear Designer at Givenchy.
‘My experience in Istituto Marangoni was of three great years of fulfilling my curiosity,
pushing to find something new, exciting and creative, and discovering the true professional
requirements of fashion design. It also gave me great friendships and contacts and an
invaluable skill-set as a designer’.
givenchy’s
menswear designer
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philipp plein’s
senior fashion designer
lixuan wang
Country
China
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Three Year Course
Fashion Design Menswear • Master’s Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
2012
alessandra
macellaro
Country
Italy
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Three Year Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
2011
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 Chief of Design, she had
the possibility to become the Head of Design for the whole office. Today at Philipp Plein
Alessandra supervises all the collections of the
brand, working really close with Mr.Plein, trying
to catch the best ideas of the designer himself.
Alessandra says: ‘the school period was the best
period of my life, where I met all my best friends
and where I learned everything to be a good designer.
Istituto Marangoni is where everything started’.
Lixuan 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 course in Fashion Design and has had a lot of amazing opportunities to achieve her dream goal. She was the finalist of the Gala London Graduate Fashion Week, representing Istituto Marangoni Milano, and was one of the protagonists of
the docu-talent show in SKY: The Fashion School. After graduating she won a scholarship to do master’s course in Fashion Design Menswear, and after becoming a winner
of her year on the master’s course, she started working in Ermenegildo Zegna as designer where she remained for two years. Today she is menswear designer for Dolce
& Gabbana. She took inspiration from rubber, looking at its sturcture, multiple curvy
lines that it takes on according to its use, she has imagined a collection that retakes
its silhouettes maximum the volumes, transform the idea of shape and volume to the
collection’s garments and enriched the garments. She wanted to use knit to create
soft armour, focusing on the idea of change and transformation, she worked on the
layering and volumes creating a high ability of adaptation that can be turned, transformed, braided and worn differently according to the man who wears it.
dolce & gabbana’s
menswear designer
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fashion stylist
antara
motiwala
Country
India
Attended Course
Fashion Styling & Portfolio • Master’s Course
School
Milano
Graduation Year
2007
Fashion has always been like a religion to her: she
used to eat, sleep and dream fashion as a child.
Her dreams came true when she got admitted to
Milano, where she graduated with a masters in
Fashion Styling, only to be recruited by Vanity Fair
Italia, which, at that time, made she feel like she
achieved all her dreams. It was a great experience as
she worked with artists such as Monica Belluci, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Riccardo Scamarcio, amongst
others celebrities. After working for a year, it was time
to head back, and she landed up with GQ India the
very next day. In 6 years of rising in ranks, she became
one of the youngest Fashion Editors for a Conde Nast
Publication globally. After working with almost every
Bollywood personality in India, she decided to venture out and start her own consulting. Now, she regularly contribute to many magazines including GQ, Vogue,
AD, Filmfare and Traveller to name a few. Her biggest
fashion highlight was being featured a few times in the
Sartorialist and having the pleasure of working with Scott.
eddie
gavriilidis
Country
Greece
Attended Course
Fashion Design • Three Year Course
School
London
Graduation Year
2011
Eddie Gavriilidis is a Greek-born designer who graduated at Istituto
Marangoni London. He was nominated for the Global Fashion Awards in
New York and worked with top industry designers such as Alexander McQueen, Tom Ford and Lady Gaga. His work has been featured in the most
influential international press: Vogue, Figaro, In Style, The Telegraph and
The Times among others. The gown part of his graduation collection at
Istituto Marangoni (where he had the honor to open his year’s show) was
sold for 29.000 dollars to a client in Beverly Hills. After working as a
creative consultant for upcoming brands, he created products that are
now stocked in the best boutiques in the world, giving the enterprises he
served the creative/commercial direction and base they needed. Eddie
has expanded his business into the manufacturing side of fashion. Eddie
understands the needs of a fashion brand when it comes to sampling
and production, and how important it is to offer attention to detail and
commerciality without losing the creative elements. He works continually on new projects along with his couture-bridal line, which is all about
elaborate luxurious gowns for celebrities and private clients. Among
the occasions when his creations were worn was the international
Skyfall premiere at the Royal Albert Hall by the beautiful Bond girl Tonia Sotiropoulou on the red carpet in the presence of the royal family.
Currently Eddie is looking to expand into menswear and ready-to-wear womenswear. Eddie lives in London and is always looking for new
projects and challenges to fascinate him.
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art director
& fashion stylist
nikhil
mansata
Country
India
Attended Course
Fashion Styling • Three Year Course
School
London
Graduation Year
2009
Nikhil trained as a stylist at Istituto Marangoni London.
He gained experience at TANK magazine and Russian
editions of Vogue, Glamour and Tatler in London before
relocating to Bombay to work as a stylist for Vogue India.
Nikhil is now a freelance creative director and stylist based in Bombay. He collaborated with Vanity Fair France,
The Business of Fashion and Vogue India, GQ and Architectural Digest. He is also a visual merchandiser for the
multi-brand fashion and home store, Le Mill. He has also
styled numerous Bollywood celebrities including Sonam
Kapoor, Kalki Koechlin and Chitrangada Singh and advertising campaigns for brands such as Gemfields, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Smirnoff and Amrapali among others.
katy garbuz
Country
Russia
Attended Course
Fashion Styling • Three Year Course
School
London
Graduation Year
2012
Katy Garbuz was born in Kazan, Russia. She graduated from Fine Arts School &
Banking college there, then moved to Cambridge to do her foundation in photography and got at Istituto Marangoni London the following year to do the three-year
course in Fashion Styling. While she was studying at Istituto Marangoni she did lots of
internships and work experience at Tom Ford, Mawi, Temperley London, Idol magazine
and Browns Focus among others. After graduating she moved to Paris to study at the
Sorbonne and work for Temperley London; after a year in Paris, she went to Kiev where
she was offered the job of curator of the Fashion Styling course at Kiev Fashion Institute.
Along with this she became a personal stylist for Daria Shapovalova and later, art director
for Mercedes Benz Kiev Fashion Days, which includes Fashion Scout London, Kiev & Paris.
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