Marco zanini biography

“What I am trying to do,” says Marco Zanini via video call from Milan, “is almost like doing a self-portrait”. And while this statement may at first suggest his use of pens, paper and paints, Zanini’s toolkit is somewhat different. It is at his Milan home, an art-and books-filled apartment that has since the 2019 setting-up of his “little business” moonlighted as design studio, press office and showroom, that Zanini has made cotton poplins, washed silks and British wool his mediums of choice. These, the Italian-Swedish designer uses to evolve his offering, much like a painter gradually completing a canvas. “I work with subtle elements – new fabrics, new colours – but in the same kind of palette, season after season,” Zanini explains.

For this spring, biscuit-tone dresses are cut loosely, feature balloon sleeves and are fashioned in Italy from a cotton and silk blend; come fall, Zanini suggests pale sweaters knitted b Marco zanini tenor.