Who I am

I’m a journalist, writer, essayist and curator. I began working in fashion as a stylist since the mid-1980s, for important magazines and international advertising campaigns.

I have been costume and fashion critic for the daily newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, from 1991 to 2012; editor-in-chief of L’Uomo Vogue and Editor at large of L’Uomo Vogue, Vogue Italia and Casa Vogue. I am and have been also a contributor to numerous titles of Mondadori, Hearst, Rizzoli and Condé Nast publishing groups. I’ve taught several courses in fashion journalism (IULM, IED, Istituto Marangoni, Università Cattolica, University of Urbino). Among my books, I’m the author of the first and only biography of fashion designer Giorgio Armani, “Essere Armani” (“Being Armani”), published by Baldini & Castoldi in 2006 (republished in two new updated editions in 2015 and 2019) and translated into ten languages; of the monograph “21 Costume National” (Assouline, 2007), the volume “Lozza, a history of glasses” (Electa, 2009) and “Etro” (Rizzoli, 2014). I was editorial coordinator of the book dedicated to Elio Fiorucci, “Caro Elio” (“Dear Elio”, Rizzoli International, 2020). Recently I collaborated on the volumes “Ken Scott” (Rizzoli International, 2022) and “Mr. & Mrs. Clark – Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell – Fashion and Prints” (Silvana Editoriale, 2022). From 2012 to 2015 I have organized and coordinated the Cashmere District Award, for the Umbrian Foreign Center. In 2018 I curated the exhibitions “Fashion Stories. Campari and Style” (Campari Museum, Campari Head Quarter, Sesto San Giovanni) and ‘Etro 50 – Generation Paisley’, (Mudec Museum, Milan).

In 2022, IMG Group commissioned me to select and flag a number of Italian fashion houses in order to organize exhibitions worldwide. The result was Dolce & Gabbana’s major exhibition “Dal Cuore alle Mani” (“From the Heart to the Hands”) in 2024 at Palazzo Reale of Milan, which in January 2025 will be staged at the Grand Palais in Paris: the first step of a major international tour.

In 2019 I have published a small book of short stories, “Vite laterali” (A&B Editrice) and in 2024 my first novel, “Elegante da morire” (Baldini+Castoldi).