Emanuel ungaro designer biography examples

French fashion designer (1933–2019)

Emanuel Ungaro (13 February 1933 – 21 December 2019) was a French fashion designer who founded the fashion house called the House of Emanuel Ungaro in 1965.^[2]

Early life

Ungaro's Italian father fled to France from Francavilla Fontana of Brindisi province because of the fascist dictatorship in Italy.

Ungaro's father was a tailor and he gave his son a sewing machine when he was young.^[1]

The House of Emanuel Ungaro

At the age of 22, Ungaro moved to Paris. Three years later he began designing for the House of Cristóbal Balenciaga^[2] 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, Ungaro opened his own fashion house in Paris.^[3]

During the mid- to late 1960s, Ungaro was known as one of the Space Age designers, along with Andre Courrèges, Pierre Cardin, Paco Rabanne, Rudi Gernr Emanuel Ungaro - Biography - IMDb ZOZO