Stefano Ricci, Clothier to the 0.001 Percent
But as he later recounted to the Ricci family, Filippo said, the queen told him, "You have a very nice shirt." As much as Milan has come to dominate the Italian fashion
landscape, locals consider Florence a cradle of Italian fashion, and, in a sense, of capitalism itself, thanks to ruling families of the Renaissance like the Medicis.
That eastward expansion — a reversal, of sorts, of the Silk Road
that once led from Asia to Italy — has been a company strategy since it opened its first outpost in China in 1993, when a Stefano Ricci tie cost about four months’ salary of the average Chinese worker, Stefano said.
Since 1972, this Falstaffian Florentine — who hunts buffalo in Tanzania, keeps falcons on his Tuscan country estate, and wears a set of ivory cuff links presented to him by a shaman in Africa — has charted his own course, one
that seems to cry out for satellite navigation, given that, among its 54 stores worldwide, the company operates boutiques in Yerevan, Armenia; Baku, Azerbaijan; and Astana, Kazakhstan, in addition to those in the standard fashion capitals like Milan and London.
Filippo said that He had his first son’s wedding one year, so he bought a pair of three-carat diamond cuff links that we made in our workshop,
Many suits are made from limited-edition fabrics, "so there might be maybe 10 suits around the world made of that fabric," Filippo added.
" he said, "but it’s like preserving a fine wine." It is interesting, then,
that Stefano Ricci’s most famous client, Nelson Mandela, eschewed such attire when attended a 1996 banquet in his honor at Buckingham Palace with Queen Elizabeth II. that They are beautiful to look at,
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