Guillermo Mariotto
Guillermo Mariotto is a Venezuelan designer and artistic director of the Maison Gattinoni born in 1963 in Caracas. He took a degree at the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco. After moving to Paris and later to London, he arrived in Milan at the age of 21. A collaboration with an interior design studio opened the doors to the world of fashion and, for two years, he worked on women’s prêt-à-porter for Basile.
In 1988 he designed the first haute couture line for Gattinoni. After the death of Raniero Gattinoni, he was appointed artistic director. In 1994, he created a scandal by sending a nude model down the catwalk, intended as a biblical reference to Eve. The following year he presented a Mona Lisa, swathed in white organza with her face veiled in lace. The Fragile collection appeared in 2001: the Israeli model Moran Athias appeared arm-in-arm with a Palestinian model. In 2002, a pregnant Nina Moric modeled, crowning a summer of features on the covers of Italian magazines.
In July 2003, Guillermo Mariotto paid homage to the 700th anniversary of La Sapienza University in Rome and to the first year of the Science of Fashion course, with a lecture to the students, covering the important developments in twentieth-century fashion, and with an exhibition of 32 garments from the new winter collection at the university’s museum.
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