Carlo Brandelli

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Carlo Brandelli (born December 1969) is a British artist, and creative director. He received the Menswear Designer of the Year award from the British Fashion Council in 2005. [1] [2] [3]

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Menswear career

Brandelli founded Squire in 1991, combining elements of art, architecture, and fashion design. The project established one of the first "creative director" roles in British menswear. [4] He also worked as a freelance designer for Burberry and Valentino in Japan.

In 2003, Brandelli joined Kilgour, a Savile Row tailoring house, as creative director. [3]

Brandelli was named GQ's Most Stylish Man in 2005. [5]

Artist career

In 2009, Brandelli founded his own studio, focusing on design consultancy and sculpture. [6] His first solo sculpture exhibition, "Permanence," opened in June 2010 at RCM Galerie in Paris.[ citation needed ]

In 2013, he created the Floating Series of glass works in Murano, all of which were acquired by a private collection. He followed this in 2015 with Glass Forms, his first series experimenting with found and discarded glass, and in 2016 he presented his second experimental series, Left Glass. [7]

That same year, Brandelli was invited as a guest designer at Pitti Uomo, where he showcased an installation of coloured glass at the Palazzo Medici in Florence, Italy. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "The Fashion Awards - Archive". Archived from the original on 2015-07-03. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
  2. ↑ "Carlo Brandelli Studio". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
  3. 1 2 "Carlo Brandelli returns to Kilgour". GQ. April 15, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Carlo Brandelli". SHOWstudio. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  5. ↑ Bilmes, Alex (2017-09-05). "Carlo Brandelli: GQ's Most Stylish Man 2005". British GQ. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
  6. ↑ Ella Alexander (25 June 2010). "Brandelli's Sculptures". Vogue.
  7. ↑ "Carlo Brandelli Studio works with clients on design projects offering Creative, Design and Artistic direction. Based in London Carlo specialises in Menswear design. Since his Squire Gallery in the late 1990s, Carlo has always worked in a creatively open and multi disciplined way, perhaps pioneering the first type of 'Creative Director' role, drawing on artistic influences to shape the language and visual communication of fashion design. Carlo is an award winning menswear designer.The studio also focuses on more Artistic projects and applied arts based work". www.carlobrandelli.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
  8. ↑ "Carlo Brandelli illuminates the Medici Palace". Wallpaper. Retrieved 2025-03-16.

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