Fashion Fame

Antonio Marras was born in 1962 in Alghero, Sardinia. Marras haven’t done any formal schooling in fashion. But, with the help of his father’s fabric store, he developed enough passion for textiles to convince an entrepreneur from Rome to create his first ready-to-wear collection in 1988. The collection was named Piano Piano Dolce Carlotta, after the Robert Aldrich horror movie of 1960s.

He won the Contemporary Linen prize for a wedding dress that revealed Sardinian influence which is now his trademark. In 1992, he decided to concentrate on one collection and finally made his haute couture debut under his own name in Paris in 1996. He presented his first eponymous ready-to-wear collection in Milan in 1999, with the shapes and colors of Sardinian costume again a major influence, together with Byzantine symbolism. Marras continues to live in Sardinia, and is working with his extended family in a home-workshop overlooking the sea.