• book cover “Gaetano Savini: The Man Who Was Brioni”

    "Gaetano Savini: The Man Who Was Brioni"
    Image Credit: Copyright Gigliola Savini Perrone, from "Gaetano Savini: The Man Who Was Brioni"

    “Gaetano Savini: The Man Who Was Brioni”

  • brioni-book-02.jpg Gaetano Savini and his daughter, Gigliola, in Florence, 1963.

    Gaetano Savini and his daughter, Gigliola, in Florence, 1963.
    Image Credit: Copyright Gigliola Savini Perrone, from "Gaetano Savini: The Man Who Was Brioni"

    Gaetano Savini and his daughter, Gigliola, in Florence, 1963.

  • The headquarters of the Brioni store, late Forties.

    The headquarters of the Brioni store, late Forties.
    Image Credit: Copyright Gigliola Savini Perrone, from "Gaetano Savini: The Man Who Was Brioni"

    The headquarters of the Brioni store, late Forties.

  • brioni Gaetano Savini and the tailor Emidio D’Addazio at the Brioni workshop on Via Barberini, Rome.

    Gaetano Savini
    Image Credit: Copyright Gigliola Savini Perrone, from "Gaetano Savini: The Man Who Was Brioni"

    Gaetano Savini and the tailor Emidio D’Addazio at the Brioni workshop on Via Barberini, Rome.

  • brioni John Wayne tries on a jacket in the via Barberini boutique, watched by tailor Vandick Bortoli, left, and Gaetano Savini, right.

    John Wayne
    Image Credit: Copyright Gigliola Savini Perrone, from "Gaetano Savini: The Man Who Was Brioni"

    John Wayne tries on a jacket in the via Barberini boutique, watched by tailor Vandick Bortoli, left, and Gaetano Savini, right.

  • brioni Peter Sellers in a fur coat in the via Barberini boutique in the Seventies.

    Peter Sellers
    Image Credit: Copyright Gigliola Savini Perrone, from "Gaetano Savini: The Man Who Was Brioni"

    Peter Sellers in a fur coat in the via Barberini boutique in the Seventies.

  • brioni Rock Hudson and Angelo Vittucci during a fitting at the via Barberini shop, late Fifties.

    Rock Hudson and Angelo Vittucci
    Image Credit: Copyright Gigliola Savini Perrone, from "Gaetano Savini: The Man Who Was Brioni"

    Rock Hudson and Angelo Vittucci during a fitting at the via Barberini shop, late Fifties.

  • Clockwise from top left, a sketch of a Brioni dinner suit from the Sixties; a sketch of a Brioni dinner suit and a sketch of a Brioni suit, both from the early Seventies.

    brioni sketch
    Image Credit: Copyright Gigliola Savini Perrone, from "Gaetano Savini: The Man Who Was Brioni"

    Clockwise from top left, a sketch of a Brioni dinner suit from the Sixties; a sketch of a Brioni dinner suit and a sketch of a Brioni suit, both from the early Seventies.

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