“One of the most influential creative forces working in
fashion today” (business of fashion)
If you don’t know the name already – you should! Lady Gaga’s superstar stylist and
collaborator Nicola Formichetti is the epitome of high-fashion mixed with avant
garde and darkism. The 35 year old,
Japanese/Italian mixed Formichetti has an impressive roster under his
belt. Some of his other work and
achievements:
·
DIESEL artistic director
·
MUGLER artistic director (recently left his
position for the brand)
·
Vogue Hommes Japan fashion director
·
Uniqlo fashion director
·
Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator 2010
winner (britishfashionawards.com)
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Formichetti was born in Japan, grew up in Rome and Tokyo,
and moved to London to go to school. He
became heavily involved in the London nightlife and street fashions. Dazed & Confused picked him up and he
became its creative director in 2008.
Working for the magazine led to others such as V, Another Magazine,
Arena Homme +, and Harper’s Bazaar US.
He has also worked with fashion brands such as Alexander McQueen, Gareth
Pugh, Prada, Topman, and H&M.
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He also has an obsession with pandas, and therefore created
his line of panda-influenced and heavily characterized products under the
Nicopanda label. He sells everything
from zombie panda rings to phone cases to t-shirts. The name came from his friends calling him
Nico Panda due to the fact that he is half-Asian, was a little chubby, and had
a beard – basically resembling a bear.
Even though the latter two circumstances have definitely changed, the
name stuck and Nicola capitalized on such and branded himself as Nicopanda!
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