Retail Industry
Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedTHE DO-IT-ALL DESIGNERS; USING THEMSELVES AS THE PROTOTYPE CUSTOMER, TODAY'S MODERN DESIGNERS ARE EQUALLY AT EASE IN CLOTHING, SPORTSWEAR AND FURNISHINGS. DNR LOOKS AT FOUR OF THE HOTTEST NAMES IN THE BUSINESS, SURE TO BE EVEN BIGGER IN THE NEXT DECADE.
Daily News Record, May, 2000 by Gellers, Stan
Roberto Menichetti: An Old World Touch for Today
"I have one foot in tradition and one in the future," says Roberto Menichetti, creative director at Burberry, who jolted it into the 21st century with his visionary Prorsum collection of men's clothing and sportswear a few years ago. He also oversees everything that's Burberry, the venerable British company with an icon plaid that was synonymous with trench coat linings and not much more.
That is, until former U.S. retailer Rose Marie Bravo came on board as CEO three years ago and it didn't take long for her to handpick Menichetti to call all of the fashion shots. Working out of his family's factory in Gubbio, Italy, Menichetti, 33, has a design philosophy rooted in the hip people he wants to dress --...
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