Renzo Rosso

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Renzo Rosso (born September 13, 1955 in Brugine , Province of Padua , Italy ) is an Italian fashion entrepreneur who founded the DIESEL fashion brand in 1978 and still owns it today.

Life

Rosso grew up in the countryside in the Po Valley and from 1971 attended the textile school in Padua, which was founded at the time. After graduating from the technical college, he worked from 1975 under Adriano Goldschmied (now a well-known jeans brand) for his company Moltex. Rosso finally joined forces with Goldschmied and other textile producers in 1978 to form the Genius Group. Various fashion brands that are still known today (2011) emerged from this group, such as Katherine Hamnett , Goldie , Martin Guy , Ten Big Boys and Diesel .

1985 paid Rosso opened the other shareholders in the company Diesel and took over the company itself. In 1996 he made his first store in Manhattan on Lexington Avenue opposite the flagship store of Levi Strauss .

In the years that followed, the company began to expand, and Rosso founded Only the Brave (OTB) holding . Via the subsidiary Staff International (acquired in April 2000) based in Noventa Vicentina (near Padua ), the holding is responsible for production and sales, and in some cases only for the sales of the following brands: Dsquared² (owned by the holding), Maison Martin Margiela (owned by the holding company; all collections except Haute Couture ), Viktor & Rolf (owned by the holding company), Marc Jacobs (men's main line until 2017; under license), Just Cavalli (under license since 2011) and Vivienne Westwood (' Red Label 'for women and men; under license). Rosso is the President of the Holding; The former DIESEL CEO Marina Tosin has been CEO since 2010. Seating is OTB, like that of DIESEL, since 2010 Breganze (previously 8 km away Molvena). At the end of 2012, OTB acquired the majority of the Marni brand established by fashion designer Consuelo Castiglioni .

For 2014 Rosso plans to go public for the company, which has been trading under the symbol OTB since 2013 .

Rosso lives in Bassano del Grappa in Veneto and has owned the local football club Bassano Virtus 55 Soccer Team since 1996 .

Honourings and prices

  • 1996: with Diesel : Premio Resultati of the Bocconi Institute, Milan , as the best Italian company of the year .
  • 1997: Entrepreneur of the year for the appearance of Diesel in the USA and especially in New York City by Ernst & Young .
  • 2000: The British music and trend magazine Select Rosso named one of the 100 personalities who will shape the new century.
  • 2005: Man of the year of the German-language edition of the quarterly GQ .
  • 2011: Awarded the Italian Order of Merit with the title Cavaliere del Lavoro

social commitment

  • 2006: Life Ball , event in Vienna for the benefit of HIV- infected and AIDS sufferers, among other things in connection with a fashion show.
  • Development of the village of Mali in Central Africa by supplying the approx. 20,000 inhabitants with water, schools, internet and farmland.
  • 2010: Donation of US $ 500,000 to Yéle Haiti to support the victims of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti .
  • 2011: Repair of the Rialto Bridge in Venice supported by 5 million euros

Others

In 1991 Rosso fell in love with the Pelican Hotel in the Art Deco district of south Miami Beach , Florida . By 1994 he had the hotel rebuilt so that each room shows a different character. With this renovation, the hotel pioneered the structural development of this part of Miami Beach.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The blue miracle from Italy in FAZ of September 20, 2013, page 19
  2. ↑ Diesel: New CEO to drive growth , textilwirtschaft.de, May 7, 2010
  3. ↑ Better to be cool than big in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on September 8, 2013, page 51
  4. ^ The blue miracle from Italy in FAZ of September 20, 2013, page 19
  5. ↑ Beauty carries weapons. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . July 10, 2011, p. 27.
  6. ↑ Rialto Bridge Rescuers in FAZ from July 29, 2011, page 33
personal data
SURNAME Rosso, Renzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian fashion manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Brugine , Padua Province , Italy