Francesco Risso is an Italian fashion designer and has been the creative director of

Marni The name Marni originates from several languages, including Hebrew, meaning "rejoice", and Latin as a variant of " Marina", meaning "of the sea". It also has derivations from Gaelic and Swahili. "Marni" and "Marnie" are the two most common spell ...

since 2016.

Career

After attending Polimoda, the fashion school in Florence, he then attended Central Saint Martin in London where he studied under the notorious professor

Louise Wilson Louise Janet Wilson (23 February 1962 – 16 May 2014) was a British professor of fashion design. Louise Wilson was based at the Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London, where she was the course director of their MA in Fashi ...

, who passed away in 2014. After working for

Alessandro Dell'Acqua Alessandro Dell'Acqua (born 21 December 1962 in Naples) is a fashion designer. He presented his first prêt-à-porter collection at Milan Moda Donna in 1996 and his first men's line at Pitti in Florence in January 1998. Dell'Acqua took over as cr ...

in Milan, he worked for 8 years at

Prada Prada S.p.A. (, ; ) is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1913 in Milan by Mario Prada. It specializes in leather handbags, travel accessories, shoes, ready-to-wear, and other fashion accessories. Prada licenses its name and branding t ...

. Apponiate as

’s creative director in 2016, Francesco Risso presented his debut collection for Marni in Fall/Winter 2017.

References

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