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Biography

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His career started with F&B and Premium event services where he worked for over than 10 years.

From 2001 until 2006 he covered the role of Corporate HQ VM Coordinator for the EMEA region for Ermenegildo Zegna. Then became supervisor for the Americas and ultimately for the entire A PAC region. Meanwhile, he started collaborating with the Merchandising Department, obtaining very positive results in terms of VM quality and process efficiency improvement.

In particular, he managed both the Accessory Dept (Bags, Shoes and SLGs) and Licensing Dept (Fragrances, Watches, Jewelry and Underwear) Ermenegildo Zegna's collections. In doing so had the task of conveying the brand image and all its visual codes in terms of product display to the different markets through seasonal and corporate manuals.

Afterwards, Damiano was appointed as manager of all corporate events and on specific projects such as the Centennial Edition collection, the Jewelry and Fragrance collection, and special collaborations/partnerships as those with Maserati and others. In all of these cases he also had to deal with merchandising dept for finalizing the entire projects.

Then VM entrusted him with both the managing of styling for all its directives and its online shop and the coordination of the trade marketing operations and all planning activities concerning visual. He had so the opportunity to cooperate with the Travel Retail Dept in order to achieve the best possible results through visual and commercial policies.

In September 2018, Damiano started working for CP Company (a company having a similar DNA and same founder of Stone Island), a business well known for its great know-how in garment dying.

There Damiano assumed the role of WW Visual Merchandising & Store Planning Manager, managing all competencies about the Visual (window creativity and instore layouts) and following both the new openings and the existing stores within the new Retail project.

In 2019 he decided to accept a new challenge in Ludovica Mascheroni Couture (a young brand for men & women apparel) as Merchandising/VM & Image manager. In LM Couture Damiano takes care of all Merchandising activities, VM directives, E-Commerce and ADV catalogues.

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