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EMANUEL UNGARO

bekasgumicuki
Dec 20, 2015
1 min read

Paris // Paris

The brand really emphasizes the classic masculinity in a woman through soft fabrics and embellishments.

At the age of 22, he moved to Paris. Three years later he began designing for the House of Cristobal Balenciaga for three years before quitting to work for Courrèges. Four years later, in 1965 with the assistance of Swiss artist Sonja Knapp and Elena Bruna Fassio, Emanuel Ungaro opened his own fashion house in Paris. In 2005, Ungaro retired and sold the label to internet entrepreneur Asim Abdullah . After the sale, the label was languished with a revolving door of designers,the last of which, Esteban Cortazar, who was appointed in 2007.