MARNI is a luxury fashion brand founded in Milan in 1994
MARNI is a luxury fashion brand founded in Milan in 1994. Innovative and multifaceted, Marni celebrates individuality through an unpredictable visual language. Marni’s is an artistic, life-embracing, colour-savvy, off-beat world of luxury that expresses a unique flair for mixing prints and shapes.
Founded in Milan in 1994, Marni is renowned for experimental craftsmanship techniques and the creative misuse of color, material, and silhouette. At Marni elegance is not perceived as something to be achieved, but the wild fauve that lives in the space between a gown and a canvas.
Creative director since 2016, Francesco Risso, invokes a new, 21st-century Renaissance through phantasmagorical mythos and sartorial storytelling. Bridging the gap between the conceptual and the wearable, Risso approaches design as a “gesamtkunstwerk”— a total work of art. By shaping through intuition and emphasizing hand-made processes, every Marni garment is imbued with its own unique sentience and personae.
Marni’s first boutique opened in London in 1999, followed by New York, Paris and Tokyo. Today its 96 stores across the world challenge the banality of the typical retail experience— simultaneously acting as galleries, artist residencies and havens for the eccentrics who comprise the Marni family. The flagship store in Via Montenapoleone in Milan exemplifies this innovative approach, acting as a multifunctional, free-standing installation space that hosts revolving artists. Marni conceptualizes “the shop” as a doorless, roomless vehicle for artistic communion, manifesting in special collaborations and capsule collections.
After embarking on a world voyage—starting under the Dumbo Bridge in Brooklyn, then Yoyogi gymnasium in Tokyo, followed by Karl Lagerfeld’s private home in Paris—Marni returned to Milan in 2024 to show for the brand’s 30th anniversary. Hosted in a hand-made paper cave in the tunnels of the Milano Centrale Railway Station, the show was both a celebration of the brand’s rich history and an inauguration of the next chapter in Marni’s design lexicon.
OTB Group is celebrating its presence in Venice with the official opening of the stores of all its brands
Customers of the Diesel, Jil Sander, Maison Margiela, Marni and Brave Kid direct stores across Europe will be able to make cashless donations to help raise funds for the projects of the Group’s Foundation
Some of the most memorable and iconic creations of the four OTB Group brands have been selected by the exhibition curator, Maria Luisa Frisa, as examples of dialogue between art, museum and contemporary fashion
