ABOUT

Visionary, determined, extroverted and self-taught, Antonio starts painting on cloth and garments at 14. He starts working at his uncle’s couture tailor’s shop in Padua and gradually assimilates and masters various techniques to create handmade coats and jackets. After his artistic studies, he attends the Institute of Fashion and design Marangoni, and while he studies he starts working for some important fashion maisons and also takes part in famous world-wide and European contests in Tokyo, Paris and Barcelona. He wins the XV NOVEL PRIZE FOR FASHION, Gremio de las Industrias de la Confección de Barcelona, Spain, 1989 and is one of the finalists at the VI ONWARD NEW DESIGNER FASHION GRAND PRIX, Onward Kashiyama Co. Ltd , Tokyo, Japan, 1990. In 1990, he wins the contest Borse Europèenne de la Création in Paris granted by the Variance Group and also wins the “XI ONWARD NEW DESIGNER FASHION GRAND PRIX” an award granted for excellence in the “men’s wear category”, Onward Kashiyama Co., Ltd, Tokyo 1994.
He makes Haute Couture garments for the exhibition “L’abito oltre la moda“ held at Ca’ Foscari, Venice.
 He is a fashion designer and makes RTW collections, designs women’s and men’s beachwear for a well-known Italian company. In 1995, he presents his first collection, which he self-finances, a women’s capsule RTW Luxury collection produced in Italy and distributed in Japan by Ichida Co., Ltd until 1998. He also collaborates with Japanese firms by whom he is commissioned prêt-à-porter collections, sweaters, footwear, bags and company uniforms. In 1999, he obtains a position as product manager in the company Staff International S.p.A. in Noventa Vicentina and is in charge of style design, fabric research and co-ordination of men’s and women’s RTW collections for the brand New York Industries. In 2001, he creates his first knitwear collection produced by a small couture firm in Vicenza. He patents a genial round beach towel, a multi-functional round-shaped beach towel, manufactured by Itochu Corporation, using cotton and an anti-bacterial fibre known as chitosan obtained from the exoskeleton of an ocean crab used, above all, in the field of surgery. With great enthusiasm for the project, the firm Warner Bros. Entertainment Italy grants him the rights to make some samples bearing the Batman logo. In 2007, he returns to Japan, where he undertakes a project with a well-known knitwear company for a luxury hand-knitted mini collection with inlaid work using precious natural fibres such as  cashmere, qiviuk, guanaco, silk, etc..

Antonio loves experimenting with alternative fabrics and yarns and is attracted to purposefully audacious lines and shapes; the woman he conceives is a sensual and contemporary figure.

In 2019 he launches an exclusive project, the only one of its sort in the world, known as ‘u ‘mpernu. It is an Alchemic brand with the Rock-A-Couture spirit created by companies that also produce for Givenchy, Tom Ford, Chanel, Chloe 'etc. It is a line that adapts to the shapes of the body.

Besides, he creates cock, a refined brand of great attention to detail with the exclusive use of top-quality materials. Cock is Los Angeles  street  couture, rock, dynamic and innovative at the same time, a provocative and most intriguing line.

Today, Antonio works as a freelance consultant collaborating with both Italian and foreign companies for well-known brands.