Romeo Gigli
Italian romanticism in velvet and scent.
Romeo Gigli was born in 1949 in Castelbolognese, near Faenza, into a family of antiquarian booksellers. He established his fashion label in 1983 with manufacturing through Zamasport, and by the late 1980s was celebrated internationally for his revival of elaborate beading, draped luxury fabrics such as velvet and brocade, and a romantic sensibility that stood apart from the era's power dressing. His breakthrough in New York came in 1978 through menswear collections for Pietro Dimitri, and runway presentations throughout the 1980s confirmed his place among Italy's most distinctive designers. The house entered fragrance in 1989 with Romeo di Romeo Gigli, composed in collaboration with Alberto Morillas, Sophie Labbé, and Nathalie Feisthauer; the debut won the Accademia del Profumo prize for best packaging in 1989 and the American Fragrance Foundation award for best packaging in 1991. The fragrance line shares the fashion house's aesthetic: sensuous, layered, and quietly unconventional, with a preference for warm florals and soft orientals that mirror the hand of Gigli's textiles.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
