Giorgio di santangelo biography

Sometimes shocking, often game-changing, always visionary, certain designers become the name on everyone’s lips for a millisecond.

Then they’re gone, no longer part of contemporary conversation, and barely even a footnote in the fashion history tomes that threaten the slender legs of the chicest coffee tables. If we stumble upon their names, we sit back and wonder, How can we not be talking about them anymore? In this series, Fashion’s Unsung Designers, I will spotlight some of those who, I believe, deserve not only to be remembered, but perhaps name-dropped over cocktails.

Fashion’s nomadic nobleman

Born in Florence in 1933, the son of a count, Giorgio di Sant’ Angelo, or to give him his full title, Count Jorge Alberto Imperatrice de Sant’ Angelo e Ratti di Desio, was raised on a vast Argentinean cattle ranch, obtained a degree in architecture, studied art at the Sorbonne, ceramics and sculpture in Spain under Picasso, and worke