Alessandro Sartori

Alessandro Sartori is an Italian fashion designer, currently being artistic director of Italian luxury brand the Ermenegildo Zegna Group. Previously, he was creative director of Z Zegna and artistic director of Berluti.

Alessandro Sartori
Born14 September 1966
Biella, Italy
NationalityItalian
OccupationFashion designer

Early life and education

He received a degree in textile engineering in Biella, Northern Italy, followed by a degree in Fashion Design in Milan in 1989.[1]

Career

In 2003, he became creative director of the newly created "Z Zegna" at Ermenegildo Zegna. He presented the Z Zegna first runway show in New York City in February 2007.[2] Z Zegna successfully appeared at five New York Fashion Weeks, and then moved to Milan starting in June 2009. On 1 July 2011 he was appointed as artistic director at Berluti with the aim of creating a luxury total wardrobe.[3]

On January 20, 2012 he unveiled his first collection at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, with footwear occupying rows of chairs lined up as if for a fashion show. Women's Wear Daily stated "It was an impressive debut." "Sartori’s collection was worn by a multigenerational cast of models in vignettes that telegraphed the Berluti lifestyle: playing chess in the library of a country chateau; having cocktails in a groovy apartment; gathering with friends under a full moon for a midnight shoe-polishing party, with Dom Pérignon as the shining agent (something serious Berluti devotees actually do)."[4]

His last collection for Berluti, presented during Paris Menswear Fashion Week, on January 22, 2016 was viewed as his best collection for the brand; Luke Leitch, on Vogue.com wrote: "This collection contained almost as many potential angles to elucidate excellence in menswear as there were grains of volcanic sand on the runway".[5]

On February 1, 2016 Women's Wear Daily confirmed the rumors about Sartori leaving Berluti. [6][7][8]

On February 5, 2016 Ermenegildo Zegna Group announced that Alessandro Sartori was appointed artistic director with responsibility across all Zegna brands and all creative functions. [9] [10] Sartori officially joined the Ermenegildo Zegna Group in June 2016. His first fashion show was the Ermenegildo Zegna Couture Autumn/Winter 2017 collection at Hangar Bicocca.[11] In 2019 Sartori chose wide, urban spaces in Milan – such as Stazione Centrale and former production plant Area Falck – as stages to his collections.[12][13]

In January 2019 for the first time, during the Ermenegildo Zegna XXX Winter 2019 fashion show, he unveiled a collection under the slogan #USETHEEXISTING, which is entirely made with innovative processes from pre-existing sources.[14]

Under his direction, in 2017 Zegna opened its first Bespoke Atelier in Milan.[15]

Collaborations

Since many years, Sartori has partnered with Benjamin Millepied, co-founder of the L.A. Dance Project.

In 2015/2016 he designed costumes for Paris Opera Ballet.[16]

In 2017 all the dancers of the L.A. Dance Project performed in Marfa, Texas, wearing Ermenegildo Zegna Couture custom made looks for a streaming life worldwide premiere.[17]

In 2018 Sartori made the suits worn by actress Tilda Swinton who played the role of Josef Klemperer in Luca Guadagnino’s movie Suspiria.[18]

In 2019, all dancers from the L.A. Dance Project performed the world premiere of Bach Studies (part 2) at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, wearing Ermenegildo Zegna XXX custom designed looks by Sartori.[19]

Since 2018 Sartori started designing the costumes for Genny Savastano, one of the main characters of the Italian series Gomorra, played by Salvatore Esposito.[20]

Awards and honors

In 2005 GQ Spain awarded Sartori the title of "Best International Designer" of the year.[21]

In 2015 GQ Spain awarded again Sartori as "Best Designer of the Year".

In 2019 Sartori was awarded the "I’m Alumni Award" by fashion school Istituto Marangoni, where he graduated in 1989.[22]   

Celebrities

Many celebrities have worn outfits designed by Sartori.

In 2003, actor Adrien Brody wore Zegna to the Golden Globes and the Oscars. Brody also featured in Zegna campaigns that year.[23]

Actors and celebrities who wore Zegna outfits designed by Sartori include: Mahershala Ali and Javier Bardem;[24] Jake Gyllenhaal;[25] Chadwick Boseman, Sterling K. Brown, Lakeith Stanfield and Chris Pine, Quincy Taylor Brown, Ben Hardy, Daniel Brühl, Mena Massoud, Riz Ahmed, Will Poulter and models Joan Smalls, Toni Garrn, Karrueche Tran.[26]

Many other celebrities have worn Zegna outfits as part of a four-chapter campaign called Defining Moments, launched in 2017.[27] The campaign featured Robert De Niro, McCaul Lombardi, Benjamin Millepied, Park Chan-Wook, Yoo Ji-Tae, Wang Deshun, Sunny Wang, Javier Bardem, Dev Patel.[28]

In 2019 Zegna launched the new “What does it mean to be a man today?” campaign, featuring Mahershala Ali and Nicholas Tse, focused on the definition of modern masculinity.[29]

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References
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  2. esarni@class.it. "Sartori — Milano Fashion Global Summit". www.fashionsummit.it. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  3. "EXCLUSIVE: Alessandro Sartori Vision For Ermenegildo Zegna". A&E Magazine. 2018-10-04. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  4. Socha, Miles; Socha, Miles (2012-01-21). "Berluti Men's RTW Fall 2012". WWD. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  5. Berluti Fall 2016 review on Vogue.com
  6. Alessandro Sartori Exits Berluti Women's Wear Daily
  7. Alessandro Sartori's 5 Years At Berluti Women's Wear Daily
  8. Menswear is now frantic as Women's
  9. Ermenegildo Zegna Hires Alessandro Sartori vogue.com
  10. Zegna Confirms Alessandro Sartori Return wwd.com
  11. "Alessandro Sartori Exits Berluti, Heads for Zegna". LUXUO. 2016-02-05. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  12. Magazine, Wallpaper* (2019-01-13). "Ermenegildo Zegna A/W 2019 Milan Fashion Week Men's". Wallpaper*. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
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  14. DeAcetis, Joseph. "Ermenegildo Zegna XXX Fall/Winter 2019 Presents A Favorable Rise Of Social Good". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
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  16. Medina, Marcy; Medina, Marcy (2015-12-12). "Benjamin Millepied Teams with Berluti's Alessandro Sartori for Ballets, RTW". WWD. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  17. Feitelberg, Rosemary; Feitelberg, Rosemary (2017-05-31). "L.A. Dance Project Partners With Ermenegildo Zegna Couture for Marfa Performances". WWD. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  18. Tashjian, Rachel (2018-09-07). "82-Year-Old "Suspiria" Actor Is Your New Menswear Icon—Because He's Tilda Swinton?". Garage. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  19. "Ermenegildo Zegna XXX Outfits Royal Ballet Flanders Performers". Flaunt Magazine. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  20. "Gomorra 4, lo stile dei boss punta sull'eccellenza made in Italy". Il Sole 24 ORE (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  21. El Pais
  22. Carrera, Martino; Carrera, Martino (2019-07-02). "Alessandro Sartori Receives Istituto Marangoni Award". WWD. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  23. "GETTING BRODY". British Vogue. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  24. Evans, Jonathan (2019-02-28). "An Inside Look at How Mahershala Ali Masters Red-Carpet Style". Esquire. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  25. "Best-dressed men at the 2019 Tony Awards". Esquire Middle East. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  26. Benjamin, Mark (2019-06-18). "Ermenegildo Zegna XXX Spring/Summer 2020". RAIN Magazine. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  27. Kurutz, Steven (2017-02-10). "A New Designer (and Robert De Niro) for a Re-energized Zegna". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  28. "Classing up selvedge denim". Augustman. 2019-08-01. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  29. "Ermenegildo Zegna launches the 'What Makes A Man' Campaign". Esquire Middle East. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
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