As a child in Messina, Italy, a port city in the northeastern corner of Sicily, Marco De Vincenzo, whose parents owned a vehicle registration agency, assumed that a career in fashion was, if not impossible, at least ambitious. And yet, “I remember hearing the story of Gianni Versace,” who grew up just across the sea in Reggio Calabria, says the 44-year-old designer, Etro’s creative director since last June. “I thought, ‘If he started from here and succeeded, so can I.’”
At 18, De Vincenzo left home to study fashion at Rome’s Istituto Europeo di Design. Three years later, he was hired at Fendi — where he remains head designer of
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