Born in Cavriago, Mariella Burani was trained to be a teacher before she became a fashion designer.

It was a chance meeting with photographer Peter Lindbergh that catapulted her to fame. The famed German photographer told Mariella Burani, “her clothes was like seeing his mother’s and grandmother’s on a chic, modern girl who wore army boots on her feet.”

It was her years in Reggio Emilia where she attended schools since fifth grade that inspired Mariella Burani’s designs.

The dainty Reggio girls who dressed in grays and subtle hues on one side and the women of Cavriago who went to work on the fields and weeded the rice paddies on the other evoked an image of delicate yet strong women to Mariella Burani, and eventually, the combination of these two worlds became her design philosophy.

Together with photographer Peter Lindbergh, Mariella Burani started a black and white theme on the “Mariella Burani woman” – a woman who on the move, a woman who laughs and cries, a woman who dresses like a woman but has an androgynous streak.

There’s nothing wrong with her, but she is not perfect either. But it’s her imperfections that gives her charm and makes her lovable.

And in the grand scheme of things, these little imperfections is what makes the world go round!

Spring 2007 Photo by Giovanni Pucci

Fall 2007 (Photo by Giovanni Pucci)

Website: www.mariellaburani.com

Address:
MARIELLA BURANI FASHION GROUP
Villa della Republica 86
42025 Cavriago (Reggio Emilia)
ITALY
Tel: +39 05 22 37 31 31
Fax: +39 05 22 57 69 22

Press Contact:
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