by High honor: A number of fashion entrepreneurs and managers were awarded with the “Cavaliere del Linvoro” or “Knight of Work” in Italy.
These include the chairman of the Prada Group and Executive Director Patrizio Bertelli; Francesco Milleri, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from Essilorluxottica; Alfonso Dolce, Chairman and CEO of Dolce & Gabbana; Maria Giovanna Paone, chair and co-CEO of the parent company Ciro Paone from Kiton and Salvatore Ferragamo chairman Leonardo Ferragamo. The latter was recognized for his guest business as President of the luxury hotel chain of the Lungarno Collection.
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Anna Beatrice Ferrino, CEO Textile Company, and Federica Minozzi, CEO of the Tile-Maker Iris Ceramica Group, was also honored in the categories of fashion and design.
The title was founded in 1901 by King Vittorio Emanuele III and is one of the highest recognitions that the President of the Italian Republic, currently Sergio Mattarella, and 25 Italian entrepreneurs recognized, who have contributed in various sectors of the economy and social development, employment, technology and growth of Italy growth.
In honor, the cohort follows in the footsteps of other personalities in the fashion industry, including Pietro Becari, chairman and CEO of Louis Vuitton; Ferruccio Ferragamo; Remo Ruffini, chairman and CEO of Moncler; Federico Marchetti; Gildo Zegna, chairman and CEO of the Ermenegildo Zegna group; Rosita Missoni; Claudio Marenzi, President and CEO of Herno; Roberto Colombo, President of Lanificio Luigi Colombo, producer of cashmere and high-quality fibers, and Alberto Barberis Canonico, CEO of the Italian high-end mill Vitale Barberis Canonico, founded in 1936 on the city of Biella.
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