Romeo Gigli, born in 1949 in Castel Bolognese, is an important Italian fashion designer. He studied architecture, but soon developed a strong interest in the world of fashion and clothing. In 1979 he worked in an atelier in New York to learn the secrets of tailoring. He was immediately recognized as a great innovator thanks to his poetic clothes with clear artistic and cultural references, always feminine and minimalist.
Today his collections are famous all over the world and some of his creations have been exhibited at the Momu in Antwerp, the Fashion Textile Museum in London, the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
The designer's romantic inspiration comes from mythological tales, the history of art and the testimonies of disappeared cultures, in the exaltation of a poetic and minimalist femininity.