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Owner, chief executive officer, and designer, Diesel

Nationality: Italian.

Born: 1955, in Brugine, Italy.

Education: Graduated from an Italian textiles school, 1975.

Career: Moltex, 1975–1978, production manager; Genius Group, 1978–1985, designer; Diesel, 1978–1985, designer and partner; 1985–, owner, chief executive officer, and designer; La Maison Martin Margiela, 2002–, majority owner and investor.

Awards: Best Italian Company of the Year, Premio Risultati award of the Bocconi Institute, Milan, 1996; nominated by Ernst & Young as Entrepreneur of the Year, 1997; chosen one of the 100 Most Important...