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In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
  renzo rosso, interview with the creator of diesel
renzo rosso, the creator of diesel, the italian jeans fashion brand, famous for its motto: for successful living.................................................................
renzo rosso was born in 1955 in the north-east of Italy, he attended an industrial
it was thus that, in 1996, renzo rosso and
www.designboom.com /eng/interview/rosso.html   (1031 words)

  
 Italian fashion: Prada
Rosso was born in Padua, Italy in 1955, the son of a farmer.
Rosso and his company have won many awards for their products and their advertisements, including the Premio Risultat award in 1996 from the Bocconi Institute in Milan, for “Best Italian Company of the Year”.
Rosso was named in British music magazine “Select” as one of the “100 Most Important People in the World” who will contribute to the shape of the new millennium.
www.lifeinitaly.com /fashion/diesel.asp   (812 words)

  
 Montex Holdings Ltd. v. Controller....
Rosso declared that his company was incorporated in 1978 under the title Diesel S.p.A. and that it had been engaged, for many years, in the manufacture of a wide range of goods including inter alia casual clothing, jeans and jackets.
Rosso said that the trade marks DIESEL and DIESEL logo had been registered by his company in many countries throughout the world and that casual wear, jeans and jackets under the name of DIESEL had been sold in Ireland since at least the year 1982.
Rosso claimed that the trademark would be well known in Ireland, and that therefore, any registration of the trade mark at the suit of the plaintiff would be likely to lead to confusion amongst the trade and public and would, therefore, infringe section 19.
www.ucc.ie /law/irlii/cases/90_00.htm   (5577 words)

  
 ZODIAC :: Celebration of Unmatched Quality :: IMAGES Fashion BoF July '03 :: Success story :: Retail Outlets, Garments, ...
Renzo Rosso's fuel-injected fantasy of constructing a clothing lab that would spin out sparky youth-powered stuff, which the new generation would love to wear, is into its silver-jubilee year and the brand of his endeavours, Diesel, now occupies an enviable place among the world's most innovative and radical attires.
This was a time when Renzo Rosso was weaving other successful brands like Katherine Hamnett, Replay, and Goldie through his Genious Group of Companies until he finally took control of Diesel in the year 1985.
At the core of Diesel is the command of freethinking propagated by Renzo Rosso.
www.imagesfashion.com /back/profile/july03_2_profile_diesel.htm   (1240 words)

  
 The Ultimate Renzo Rosso - American History Information Guide and Reference
Renzo Rosso (born 1955) is an Italian clothing designer and founder of the Diesel clothing company.
In 1996, Renzo Rosso and Diesel received the "Premio Risultati" award from the Bocconi Institute in Milan for being the "Best Italian Company of the Year".
Renzo was also nominated by Ernst & Young as "Entrepreneur of the Year" for 1997 for the company's strong expansion in the U.S. In December 1997, the English music and trend magazine "Select" included Renzo in a special classification of the 100 most important people in the world.
www.historymania.com /american_history/Renzo_Rosso   (110 words)

  
 My Way - Fashion & Beauty
To top it off, Rosso treated the thronging crowd to a half-hour midnight fashion show that delivered Diesel fashions from the last 25 years, and re-created on stage (as well as on enormous video screens) some of the brand's most memorable advertising campaigns.
Rosso has made a habit of keeping a gang of trustworthy cohorts close by his side and most of these have been along from the start.
One look at Diesel's future with Rosso's two sons, 26-year-old Andrea and 24-year-old Stefano, is undeniable that these renegade street kids -- with their wild hair, unruly beards and laid-back style -- will continue the legacy of the brand for another 25 years of non-conformity.
fashion.myway.com /scene/id/scene|5733.html   (726 words)

  
 European Business: D I E S E L : BEYOND HIS WILDEST JEANS March 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Which is why 2005 should be such a memorable year for Renzo Rosso, founder of the jeans company Diesel, which is headquartered in Molvena, in the rural north-east corner of Italy.
Rosso shrugs: "It doesn't make sense to spend a lot of money to place ads on television when you are only talking to 5% of the audience." Instead, Diesel used spots on MTV and cinema ads - "because you can select the films your ads are shown with.
Rosso's motto is: "Diesel is not my company, it's my life." He lives this life to the max, wearing only his own products and hanging out with his young staff.
www.decision-maker.net /features/2005/mar/diesel.html   (1177 words)

  
 Metropolis [Tokyo] Looking Good: Visitor from another planet
Renzo Rosso is a walking advertisement for his fashion company Diesel.
The 45-year-old Rosso is a bundle of energy, jokingly describing himself and his empire as being from another planet.
Rosso took over as chairman in 1985, and from day one he and his staff have dared to be different, whether it' making jeans layered with a metallic mesh to giving them a permanent rumpled appearance, waistcoats designed to resemble life jackets, T-shirts with shark warnings or jackets featuring US tank manuals.
www.metropolis.co.jp /HealthandBeauty/368/healthandbeautyinc.htm   (891 words)

  
 Diesel Wrist Watches
When Renzo Rosso founded the company in 1978, he wanted it to be a leader, a company which took chances and carved out a niche for itself in its field.
Renzo wanted to come up with a more dynamic and imaginative line of clothing than was available anywhere.
Diesel people and their working methods are so unconventional, and yet productive, that they have been profiled in countless magazines, newspapers and documentary television programmes, and have been studied by international conglomerates, consulting organizations, universities and business schools.
www.wrist-watches.org /diesel.htm   (385 words)

  
 Diesel wear, FashionUnited news
This week the company's founder, Renzo Rosso, announced that it would be participating in New York Fashion week on the 10th February with its newest up-market collections.
Rosso continued by saying that the company was ready to showcase the brand on a global basis.
Diesel founder Renzo Rosso has been scouting locations, including in Notting Hill, but said he has not yet found the right site.There are currently Denim Gallery stores in Osaka and Tokyo in Japan and in SoHo, New York.
www.fashionunited.co.uk /news/diesel.htm   (413 words)

  
 iWon - Fashion & Beauty
Rosso seems to know a thing or two about the under-30 market, and not just because he hangs out with skate rats.
Rosso, on the other hand, views mass luxury goods as outdated and unrealistic in today's market, regardless of age.
Rosso cites Belgian brand Martin Margiela, which he acquired in early September, as a perfect example of this.
fashion.iwon.com /feature/id/ff|4508.html   (488 words)

  
 Interview: We take you to the leader - Diesel USA founder Renzo Rosso - Interview
Twenty years ago Diesel's Renzo Rosso had what turned out to be a fuel-injected fantasy: Create a laboratory for clothing that would turn out the kinds of sparky, youth-powered stuff he and his friends could wear.
That Rosso has achieved this without losing the spirit that originally inspired his company is testament to the power of free thinking.
RENZO ROSSO: No, my dream as a kid was just to be a little more than a simple workman.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1285/is_n11_v28/ai_21248650   (1670 words)

  
 Oxford University European Affairs Society
"Renzo Rosso is the single most important man behind successful clothing company Diesel.
Renzo Rosso will take us through an interactive presentation of Diesel’s concept and also address broader issues such as the state and future of the European fashion industry.
Renzo Rosso’s motto: 'Diesel is not my company, it’s my life'.
users.ox.ac.uk /cgi-bin/safeperl/eas/events.pl?id=33   (198 words)

  
 Diesel part 1
The enterprise is led by Renzo Rosso, founder and owner of DIESEL, whose intuition and knowledge of the markets drive the enterprise against competitors, such as Levi’s and Benetton.
Renzo Rosso is the heart of DIESEL: his charismatic presence influences the company in all its activities and decisions.
Rosso personally selects new people at managerial level and meets all candidates (selected by his managers) for any position within the enterprise.
www.unibw-muenchen.de /campus/LRT14/Part1/ve-course/lessons/diesel1/diesel1.html   (2905 words)

  
 CNN.com - Case study: How jeans power Diesel - Oct. 24, 2003
Renzo Rosso, from a poor farming family near Padua in Italy, was only 15 when he first stitched a pair of jeans.
Rosso co-founded a clothes label in 1975 which was renamed Diesel in 1978.
Rosso is also inspired by some of the giants of technology.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/10/15/globaloffice.diesel   (432 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Renzo Rosso, founder of jeanswear giant will serve as president of the company, while Belgian designer Martin Margiela will continue to maintain a minority holding and will stay a creative leader of the Maison Martin Margiela.
Rosso is going to invest actively in new purchase, to expand product line, which will most likely involve licensing development.
However, before you start hyperventilating at the thought of fashion"s most famous recluse going into global mass-production, rest assured that there will be no jeans and underwear lines with titcheds on them in corners of Diesel store"s worldwide.
www.leform.ru /eng/news.php?date=2002-09-13   (278 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Renzo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Architects such as Renzo Piano and Tadao Ando, both now in their early 60s, are deeply affected by Kahn's ideas.
But it is Renzo Piano's "Shard of Glass", a slender, 1,000ft pyramid planned for the south side of London Bridge, that is now making waves.
His former business partner, Renzo Macher, 32, of Miami, was given a year in prison and ordered to repay $500,000 after pleading guilty to one count of...
nametraq.org /Jan04/R/Renzo.shtml   (951 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Rosso   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Nova's Merrick and Rosso will try to correct last week's unexpected hiccup in their climb to the top; 2Day will be vulnerable as it beds in a new show with...
Jerry Rosso, the superintendent of the Mosinee School District, is optimistic that the teachers in his district will soon have a contract as well.
Graham Rosso, who lives four doors down from the block, expects it will soon be difficult to drive into his street despite being issued with a residents...
nametraq.org /Jan04/R/Rosso.shtml   (1694 words)

  
 rucool.com - profiles : diesel
In the case of Diesel, the individual who has powered the company's growth is Renzo Rosso.
It was thus that, in 1996, Renzo Rosso and Diesel received the "Premio Risultati" award from the prestigious Bocconi Institute in Milan for being the "Best Italian Company of the Year".
Renzo is an idealistic, passionate man whose motto is "Diesel is not my company, it's my life".
www.rucool.com /profiles-diesel-6.php   (353 words)

  
 housesdiesel.html
Diesel is the company run by Renzo Rosso, (shown on the left) who was born in North Eastern Italy in 1955.
In 1985 Renzo Rosso took complete control of the group and became the sole force behind the concern.
Renzo Rosso is pushing the company into a more uptown image, by deciding to show on the catwalk.
www.designerhistory.com /historyofashion/housesdiesel.html   (477 words)

  
 MFFashion 081 VI Wednesday 24 April 2002
The clothing company based in Molvena in Vicenza led by Renzo Rosso released figures for '01 which reveal results in net contrast to the general market trend following the events of 11 September.
Another interesting data concerns the number of staff employed by the group which rose from 1.506 in 2000 to 1.757 in 2001.
In order to realise this objective Diesel is extending its retail network with new openings of trademark stores covering on average 350 square metres.
www.mffashion.it /giornale/20020424/art/e-06-A01.asp   (494 words)

  
 Diesel is new competitor in Australian fashion market
The founder of the label Renzo Rosso has teamed up with Australia’s Mark Keighery who sold his successful label and chain of stores, Marcs, to the Oroton group 14 months ago.
Rosso believes there is a strong market for Diesel in Australia.
Rosso said the secret of Diesel's success was not worrying what people thought.
www.bandt.com.au /news/a5/0c0199a5.asp?print=true   (176 words)

  
 Renzo Rosso @ amfAR Cinema Against AIDS Gala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Renzo Rosso was seated at Sharon Stone's table with Lapo Elkann (Lapo is from the Agnelli family, and marketing manager of FIAT) and actress Dolores Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin's niece), who was dressed in Diesel jeans and Margiela's white smoking jacket.
Renzo Renzo donated the auction a Diesel 25th Anniversary Silver Time Frame and a box of 5 bottles of "Bianco di Rosso '99".
Renzo Rosso is in Cannes with his boat, the Lady May, where there are also Dean and Dan (DSquared) and Lapo Elkann.
www.hkclubbing.com /v4/content/view/1235/2   (291 words)

  
 Renzo Rosso, sole owner of Diesel
Indeed, each of the holes in Rosso’s jeans has been carefully put there by hand, using a Black and Decker sander, similarly applied to get the gently-frayed edges of the pockets just so, then repeatedly washed by hand, without chemicals, to get the perfect shade of faded blue.
Twenty-five years later, Rosso is still head and sole owner of Diesel, one of the most influential casualwear fashion companies of recent decades.
After eight years of average growth for the brand, by which point it had a turnover of just €3m, Rosso saw that Diesel had huge potential, befitting its name – which was carefully chosen because it is pronounced the same the world over – and in 1985 he bought it.
www.easyjetinflight.com /features/2003/sep/howdiesel.html   (1958 words)

  
 Interview with Renzo Rosso, founder of Diesel ("Al pret-a-porter servono manager") - Russian News - News From Russia
Asked about the most interesting markets for fashion today, Renzo Rosso, founder of Italian casualwear brand Diesel, said that the UK and Japan are his group's two primary markets, the places where fashion is most daring.
Asked how Italian products could regain competitiveness, Mr Rosso said that the "Made in Italy" label still attracts foreign consumers, but that the Italian government needs to offer more incentives and investment opportunities to younger entrants in order for the sector to grow.
As for the increasing trend of transferring production to less expensive countries, Mr Rosso said that it will be inevitable for some produciton lines due to market prices, but that the most important point is that the brains of a business remain in Italy.
www.gateway2russia.com /st/art_240964.php   (328 words)

  
 Disel Watches
Diesel, founded by CEO and owner Renzo Rosso, manufacturers products that are currently sold in more than 80 countries.
When Renzo Rosso founded the company in 1978, he wanted it to be a leader, a company that took chances and carved out a niche in its field.
Rosso strived to conceive a more dynamic and imaginative line of clothing and accessories than was available anywhere.
all-watches.com /diesel-watches.html   (390 words)

  
 ekathimerini.com | Renzo Rosso, denim’s royalty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Renzo Rosso’s passion for casual wear says a lot about his free-spirited style.
Confidence has always been central to the company’s development: From the desire to be creatively radical, to the search for novel cutting and stitching techniques, to singular advertising campaigns and a website created as early as 1995, Diesel has long been a fashion innovator.
Born in Padua in 1955, Rosso studied industrial textiles before co-founding the Genius Group in 1978, which developed brands such as Katharine Hamnett, Replay, Goldie and Diesel.
www.ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_547240_02/04/2004_41362   (1084 words)

  
 Renzo Masi 2000 "Erta e China" Rosso di Toscana - Wine Tasting Note
Renzo Masi 2000 "Erta e China" Rosso di Toscana
Renzo Masi 2000 "Erta e China" Rosso di Toscana ($12.99)
This Tuscan red demonstrates the flexibility of the IGT regulations with a non-traditional blend of half Sangiovese, half Cabernet Sauvignon, aged 14 months in a combination of French and American oak.
www.wineloverspage.com /wines/tn.phtml?id=236   (234 words)

  
 Diesel Clothing UK - Shopezze - Diesel Jeans - Diesel Shoes - Diesel Clothing UK
Diesel people and their working methods are so unconventional, and yet productive, that they have been profiled in countless magazines, newspapers and documentary television programs, and have been studied by consulting organizations, international conglomerates, universities and business schools.
Diesel's "historical moments" include mile-stones like 1978 (creation of the brand name), 1985 (Renzo's complete acquisition of the company), 1991 (beginning of the international marketing strategy) and 1996 (opening of Diesel's first flagship store on New York City's Lexington Avenue).
Ever since the beginning, Renzo Rosso believed in addressing the world with one product and one language, and one of his first steps was building a solid and vast distribution platform stretching across all 5 continents.
www.clothes-stores.co.uk /diesel-clothing-uk.htm   (509 words)

  
 EL TIEMPO.COM - Vida de hoy -> Renzo Rosso, creador de la marca de ropa Diesel, dice que los jóvenes de hoy son más ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Renzo Rosso creó todo un imperio de ropa casual y es un ícono para los jóvenes.
Renzo Rosso, creador de la marca de ropa Diesel, dice que los jóvenes de hoy son más despiertos
La revista inglesa Select incluyó a Rosso en la lista de las 100 personalidades que contribuyeron a darle forma al milenio pasado.
eltiempo.terra.com.co /vidadehoy/24demayode2005/ARTICULO-WEB-_NOTA_INTERIOR-2078724.html   (717 words)

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