Alessandro De Benedetti
About
Alessandro De Benedetti is an Italian fashion designer, born in Genoa on December 12, 1973.
During the Nineties Alessandro De Benedetti studied graphics and comic art in Milan, inspired by authors such as Guido Crepax and Frank Miller, and fashion at Marangoni Institute.
He entered the fashion world through a series of important experiences of international scope. Having worked with Saverio Palatella, and in 1992 he moved to Australia where he designed the George Cross Sportswear brand. In 1994 he moved to Paris to work for French designer Thierry Mugler, and participated in the organization of the maison's twentieth anniversary.
In 1998 he returned to Italy to make his debut on Milan’s catwalks, with a brand that bears his own name, and a series of “inspired collections” that combine artistic sensitivity with careful attention to cut and details.
In September 2004 he was appointed creative director of the women's collections of the Exté brand by It Holding.
In 2005 he won the Fashion Award Oscar 'La Kore' as best New Generation designer and marked the arrival of a new financial partner, Gentex of Milan, which, through its G-Fashion section, focuses specific know-how in terms of research, distribution and market segmentation on Alessandro De Benedetti’s work.
The Look
The alternative punk music of the ‘Eighties, the shadowy gothic sensitivity, a love for the alternative cinema of Russ Meyer and Alejandro Jodorovski, the noir style of Joan Crawford and Siouxsie Sioux, ‘Fifties French couture and the musical street-style of the last twenty years. Women drawn on paper for underground magazines come to life in collections where dress is the ultimate expression of a world made up of contrasting elements, of icons and personal legends that take shape and transform into ironic, sensual madams, shuffling the cards of style. Beguiling, evocative and mysterious, De Benedetti’s women move between the lines of the stories that inspire his collections and put the woman herself centre-stage, with all her contradictions and her desire to seduce through role-playing games.