Alumni

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. 

Project Runway Winner and Fashion designer Sebastian Grey is no stranger to the high-end market, with 10 years of experience working with renowned designers like Lina Cantillo and Andres Otalora. 

She currently works in Lima where she created the visual merchandising and the shop windows for numerous outlets and the construction of exhibition stands. She teaches courses and seminars in shopping centres and design institutes in Lima.

She is only 26, and she is already a very influential figure in the world of Latin American fashion. Born in the United States and raised in Mexico City, Valentina Collado works as a Fashion Editor at Vogue México y Latinoamérica.

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 was included in the list of 140 Emerging Designers of Vogue Italia. In September 2010 her brand debuted internationally with the presentation of the first collection of bags (Spring/Summer 2011 collection).

Taking the Masters in Fashion & Luxury Brand Management helped me broaden my network, with professors, industry professionals, and classmates, who I now call my good friends.

It opened the doors to business opportunities and raised the level of the work I was doing. From the first semester, I began to notice the difference in the quality of the product that I offered to my clients and the 360 vision that I now have of the fashion industry.

Alessandro Sartori was born in Biella, Italy. He draduated from Istituto Marangoni, receiving his degree in 1989. By 2003 he was artistic director at Ermenegildo Zegna.

Born in 1988 in Istanbul, Merve Ucar graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University with a degree of Fashion and Textile Design in 2008. During her studies, she worked as an intern at Ramsey and Arzu Kaprol.

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.

Amina Aranaz is one of the Philippines’ most recognized accessory designers, with a passion for fashion and creativity handed down to her by her mother, who has been in the bag business for over 30 years manufacturing pieces for top designer labels.
 

Born in 1984 in Catanzaro, he matured with artistic promise. He studied Fashion Design at Istituto Marangoni, graduating with honors

Born in Lodi in 1982, after art and design studies, Armando attended DAMS in Bologna. A strong creative drive and the first professional experiences led him quickly into the world of fashion and, thanks to this passion, in 2003 he began attending Istituto Marangoni School of Fashion.

Barbara Grotto, daughter of the President and founder of GAS, Claudio Grotto, was born in 1974 breathing the scent of denim deeply. One of her most vivid child memories is the high pile of jeans ready for shipment that accumulated in the laboratory under her house. Over the years that laboratory has been transformed into an international firm bearing the family name that distributes its collections worldwide under the GAS brand.

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.

Marianna Senchina has been producing her own collections since she was very young. After she attended the University of Technology and Design in Ukraine, where she had also opened her first atelier with a number of loyal customers, she then attended Istituto Marangoni’s Fashion Design Program.

Julie de Libran 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.

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.

Soon as she graduated and held her first fashion show in London on July 2006 and Alberta Ferretti offered her a job. She was part of the design team of Alberta Feretti and she improved her skills in haute couture and artistry.

She got her Master’s in interior design in 2009 from the Istituto Marangoni. The following year she founded the design firm Davsar-Design in Milan for the design of high-quality interiors, focusing on innovation and on developing professional relations between Italy and Russia.

Gifted at drawing, Helena, born and raised in Gothenburg, suddenly decides she wants to study fashion at Istituto Marangoni.

Eddie Gavriilidis is a Greek born designer graduated from Istituto Marangoni London. He was nominated for the Global Fashion Awards in New York and worked with top industry designers like Alexander McQueen, Tom ford and Lady Gaga. His work has been featured in the most influential international press:Vogue, Figaro, In style, telegraph, Times among others.

Born in Arezzo, Italy, Manuela studied fa­shion and theatrical costume in high scho­ol and went on to get a degree in Fashion Design at Istituto Marangoni, graduating in 2000.

After attending a Fashion Business course at the University of Glasgow, in 2019 Tang Shuo graduated at Istituto Marangoni Shanghai, majoring in BA in Fashion Design.

A young Greek designer with an eclectic and biting style, Christina Economou recently founded her own independent brand and is ready now to dress an autonomous and fearless woman with her two collections, Spring/Summer 2014 and Fall/Winter 2014.

Naza Yousefi graduated in 2008 from Istituto Marangoni London, where she currently works as a tutor in the Fashion Design and Business programme. In 2015, she founded Yuzefi, a leatherwear brand launched through a tote bag collection she is currently selling on her online store.

Born in Cordoba, in Spain, in 1989, Miguel Garcia Abad studied Fashion Design at the Istituto Marangoni schools in Milano and London.

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.

After graduating in Fashion Design from Istituto Marangoni Milano, Cori Amenta started her career as a stylist at Class Editori and Il Sole 24 Ore, as well as she signed an exclusive rights contract as a Celebrity Stylist with Dolce & Gabbana, with whom she still collaborates.

Fashion designer from South America, Alexia Ulibarri currently lives in Mexico City, where she launched her namesake brand ALEXIA ULIBARRI in 2009. In the same year, she presented her first women’s collection titled “Dark Romance“.

Known as China’s youngest independent designer, Haotian Wen moved to Paris when he was only 18. There he studied fashion design at Studio Berçot and then took a three-year course at Istituto Marangoni.

He graduated from Istituto Marangoni in 2009. In the same year, together with an industrial designer, he founded DAAFportal, the DAAFsociety portal for designers, architects, artists and fashion industry experts, which published online in 2011.

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.

Louise takes the inspiration for her creations from situations beyond fashion: from architecture, biology, graphic effects on TV shows, as was the case with her collection “Decayed Pethio” which refers to the drama series “True Blood”.

Born and raised in the mountains of south-eastern Brazil, since his childhood Francisco Terra showed a strong passion for fashion magazines. After his studies in business administration, he attended film school and took a degree in video and photography.

He graduated from the Art Institute Ballardini in Faenza. He attended a course in fashion design at Istituto Marangoni, where he perfected his technique, graduating in 2009.

From her childhood in Brazil to the interview in Vogue UK. This is the path of Barbara Casasola, emerging designer already acclaimed for her style by stars of the calibre of Gwyneth Paltrow.

Elizaveta works in Burberry’s headquarters in London as a wholesale executive in charge of the development of emerging markets and as director of Burberry’s Prorsum line.

He currently designs accessories and furniture for “Versace” and “Versace Home”. Giulio was born in Como, an area of excellence in Italy’s furniture design industry.

Ines Barona Coghlan, young Fashion Designer with a passion for Italian design, already boasts as many as nine years of experience in the swimsuit industry at international level.

Interior designer for the showroom Herricasa in Crema, where she performs on-site inspections, preparation of two-dimensional designs, design consulting and finally the processing in 3D and cost estimates.

Her imagination is multifaceted, bringing her to experiment and find inspiration in nature and art. Interested in the research and development of sophisticated textures with three-dimensional effects and geometric cuts, she willingly enriches her clothes with original sculptural details.

When I decided to study at Marangoni Miami I had a vague idea of what I wanted to do, and the course helped me fine-tune it until I was ready to launch my own swimwear brand.

Born in Bergamo 1972, Alessandra Facchinetti studied art, sculpture and architecture, before dedicating herself to fashion, graduating at Istituto Marangoni Milano. 

Sofia Colasante, born in 1991 in the province of Salerno, is passionate about Art in all of its forms and since 2015 she has been designing women’s garments creating collections that bear her signature.

Zaid Farouki has always known that his future would be in the fashion world. He graduated in Business Administration in Washington, fed his passion for art by studying painting, sculpture and multimedia, and has been writing about fashion and style on his fashion blog zaiddor.com for some years now.

Li Xuan 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.

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 womenswear, he came back to the United Kingdom and launched his menswear brand.

Indonesian fashion designer Kleting Titis Wigati is CEO & Creative director at KLÉ, ready-to-wear fashion label she started in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2009. Her designs are brave and sharp, intended for non-conformist individuals who crave self-expression through their personal style.

Sabrina is a Chinese designer born in Italy. She began her private journey as a fashion designer when she launched her own brand Ombra in 2013, in pursuit of her own design willingness.

Born in Palermo in 1961, Maurizio Pecoraro became interested in men’s tailoring while still a child.

KAI founded his own fashion studio in 2012 and named it after himself KAIXIANG. He strives for detail-orientated methods in cutting and designing, resulting in a delicate and luxurious style which is comfortable and yet simple at the same time.

Andrea Bonini was born in Verona in 1985 and studied Interior and Product Design at the Istituto Marangoni in Milan.

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.

Born in Pasto, Colombia, Adriana Santacruz has focused her work as a fashion designer on the study of the weaving techniques, which the Los Pastos inhabitants have developed one generation after another.

Olga Vilshenko is a Russian fashion designer and entrepreneur who has been working in the fashion industry since 2008: Olga founded her own brand in 2011.

Born in 1992 in Tolmezzo, a small town near Udine, Martina has always been fascinated by fashion.

Martina Ceccherini Nelli was born in Milan, Italy, yet spent the majority of her life in London, England.

Jonathan Scarpari is a talented designer with an eclectic personality: born and raised in Brazil in a family of Italian origins, he graduated in chemistry at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre.

Francesca Bellavita is a freelance designer born in Bergamo, Italy. In 2006 Francesca decides to pursue her passion for fashion and attends the three-year course in Fashion Design at Istituto Marangoni Milano, graduating in 2009.

Costanza Bacciocchi, a fashion specialist of extra-ordinary skill, currently works as an International Specialist PR Product Placement and Celebrity Dressing with Etro Fashion House.

Lautaro Amadeo Tambutto was born in 1994 in San Nicolas de los Arroyos, near Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Born in 1986 in Bolzano, Italy, Valentina Modica has always been very fond of contemporary art and fashion.