Fashion Designer Romeo Gigli was born at Castelbolognese, Faenza, in a beautiful country house. After classical studies at high school he read architecture at university, by which time he had already acquired a taste for travel. Curious to know other countries, he away was from Italy more and more often and for increasingly long periods. He had not yet perhaps begun to think about fashion. But from his travels he regularly brought back objects, clothes or jewels, as gift. Little by little, more out of passion than by decision, he moved closer to design, fabrics and colours.

1979. He settled in New York and worked at Dimitri's atelier, where he learnt many technical secrets of fashion design. After returning to Italy, he started moulding his new ideas of "fashion" which had been riperning in his mind for some time, almost without his realising.

1986. Came celebrity. His clothes were fashion news worldwide. Right form the very first collections it was plain that Gigli had found a distinctly personal path, far from any cliches. His necklines, cut across the shoulder and fastened by a soft satin bow, established a new point and a new way of revealing the female body. His
destructured jackets and coats, with only the faintest hint of a shoulder (just when richly padded shoulders were all the rage in Italy), were a prelude to the natural lines that he was to continue designing in the future. His fabrics, men's fancy weaves, tweeds and sober woollen boucles, matching shades and tones heralded success that were to make him one of the most prominent representatives of international fashion design.

1993. Agreementc with a company of Olmetto Group for the production and distribution of scarves, foulards and Women's fabric accessories. Cooperation with Christopher Farr's "Handmade rugs" for the carrying out of carpets in a limited edition

• Rugs by this designer