Guerriero

Stefano Guerriero (1966). Italian designer. Born in Naples (his father was Neapolitan aswell, his mother is Danish), he was attracted by fashion during his Summers spent in Capri. In 1984, after graduating from high school, he decided to leave Naples to go to Milan. He worked as a model for Giorgio Armani and attended fashion designing courses. He joined Gianni Versace‘s atelier. He began with a position in the Versace factory in Novara, then as part of the staff in Via del Gesù. In 1991 he became consultant of Alberta Ferretti and, later, of Donatella Girombelli for the brand Genny. In 1998 he made his debut with his own Collection, exhibiting it during Moda/Milan.
He was called to design the brand Les Copains.
The designer called his Collection’s exhibition, Holiday Couture, and he created a setting with a father, a mother, and a child on holiday in a meadow by a colored van. Stefano Guerriero’s woman, with a long Jamaican hairdo, is relaxed and tranquil, appreciated luxury and elegance, but without ostentatiousness: leather jackets to wear over soft and large cotton pants, embroidered T-shirts and flowered track suits, and silk skirts with pop patterns.
He replaced Simon Kneen at the artistic direction of Maska, a high fashion line inspired to the ‘working woman’.
Guerriero’s production joined the East. In Japan he signed a three-year distribution contract with Misaki that foresaw the opening, within 2007, of a Guerriero single brand store in Tokyo.
Debut of Guerriero’s bags with a line of his own for the Spring-Summer 2004-2005.
He reacquired 40% of his brand from BVM Italy.
In Taormina, the designer received an award during La Kore, the fashion Oscars. In the course of the event other protagonists were awarded by the international fashion system.