Gandini

Remo Gandini (1893-1965). Italian haute couture tailor. The French considered him to be the best of the Italian tailors after the decline of the house of Ventura. He arrived in Milan from Fontanellato di Parma at the young age of 14 and worked at the Roveri fashion company. By the age of 17, he was head cutter. After four years of war, from 1915 to ’18, and another period as an employee, in 1922 he went out on his own. At first he was on via San Paolo, then on Corso Monforte, and then, in the early 1930s, at via Senato 29, with a second entrance on via della Spiga, the street that, half a century later, would become the world’s crossroads of fashion. He would choose the models in Paris and then recreate them for his private clients and for other Italian tailors. But he also designed his own models, according to a classic taste and with great rigor of line. His tailored suits were very famous, true status symbols indicating membership in high society. Until the last years of his life, he wanted to cut the cloth. He had a very bad temper and established with the clients that he chose (not everyone was welcome) a relationship based on a brusque tyranny, but also one of real friendship. His son, Giovanni Gandini, is the founder of Linus.