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Renzo Rosso Counsels Fashion Students

MILAN — “Believe in yourself and try to focus on your strengths and

on what you are good at,” OTB founder Renzo Rosso counseled

fashion students who flocked to the theater in Milan’s Triennale Design Museum on

Thursday night as part of the first Milano Moda Graduate event organized by the

Italian Fashion Chamber.

Camera Nazionale della Moda president, Costume National chief executive officer

Carlo Capasa, fashion designer Marco De Vincenzo and Nowfashion editor in chief

Jessica Michault also took part in the round table discussion.

Milano Moda Graduate is a one-day event promoting and celebrating the works of

graduates from a range of Italian fashion schools, including Accademia della Moda,

Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera, Accademia Euromediterranea, Accademia Galli,

AFOL Moda, Ars Sutoria, Domus Academy, IED Moda, Istituto di Moda Burgo,

Istituto Marangoni, Istituto Modartech, Istituto Secoli, NABA Nuova Accademia

Belle Arti and Politecnico di Milano.

“Young people have virgin blood, they haven’t been contaminated yet. They feel what

the others cannot feel,” continued Rosso, advising them to create customized

résumés to send to the companies in which they are interested. “Go into their stores,

check products and show companies your own personal vision of their brands.

Whoever gets a curriculum vitae like that says ‘wow.’ Honestly, it never happened to

me,” he said.

Rosso also put the accent on the relevant role that small companies can have in

today’s market, which is extremely segmented and differentiated.

“A business doesn’t need to be necessarily big, it can be small. Technology is making

things easier. But the most important thing is to do something you like and which is

different,” he added, highlighting the fact that in markets like China customers

are growing weary of big labels and are looking to other kinds of brands.

Asked about the biggest mistake from which he learned during his career, Rosso

explained that for many years he hadnt’ been able to fire people.

“I finally learned to take out the wrong person from a team,” he said. “Right people

make the difference. Everybody should row in the same direction, and when this

happens you go and win the Champions League.”

Rosso also praised John Galliano’s work as creative director of Maison Margiela.

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“He is a wonderful orchestra leader,” said Rosso. “He is not interested in generating

buzz around him. He just wants to talk about the dream and beauty. When he

creates a collection, he doesn’t focus only on clothes, but he starts imagining how the

model will walk, what kind of music she will be listening to and what her attitude

will be.”

After the speeches, select graduates from the different fashion schools unveiled their

creations with a collective runway show, and three of them scooped prizes assigned

by a jury of experts, including Rosso, Capasa, Riccardo Grassi, owner of the

prestigious namesake Milanese showroom, and designer agent Davide Dallomo,

among others.

NABA graduated Francesco De Carli, who presented a creative collection of knitwear

and leather pieces decorated with arty graphics with a childish feel, was awarded the

Camera della Moda prize involving an internship at Missoni. EID graduate Alice Illi’s

collection, featuring women’s clothes infused with an artisanal touch, won the Vogue

Talents prize that consists of a profile in Vogue Italia’s September issue. Meanwhile,

Istituto Marangoni’s Giulia Guadagno, who presented unconventional pieces with

woven colorful tapes, received the jury prize, consisting of an internship at a

company associated with the Italian Fashion Chamber.

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