Lancetti

More than twenty licensing agreements have been concluded, and looking toward the future with a desire to modernise the Lancetti image several new labels have been created: "Miss Francesca" and "Lancetti & Company." A line of knitwear in cashmere for men and women was launched as well as the Lancetti dresses for brides. Lancetti has also turned his creative talents to creating mens shirts and ties, stockings, scarves, umbrellas, and promotional gifts for businesses. In 2000 he presented a final collection, elegant as ever, before selling his name and company to a Tuscan industrialist, Ugo Paci, who briefly, between 2003 and 2005, brought in the brilliant baby Brazilian Icarius de Menezes as creative director. His prints were almost up to the master's standard, although the master was by then painting quietly in retirement till his dead in March 2007.