Italo Zucchelli on Calvin Klein Men’s

There was never a doubt in Italo Zucchelli’s mind that he would become a designer. And over the past 13 years at Calvin Klein, the men’s creative director of Calvin Klein Collection has taken the lessons he learned from the “god and goddess of minimalism” to make his own mark on the fashion industry. Although Zucchelli dabbled with the idea of becoming an architect as a young man, “I knew fashion was my passion,” he said. In the early Eighties in Italy, the fashion business was booming and he became “obsessed” with the proliferation of magazines in the market. He traveled to London and absorbed everything that was happening with street style and music, and there was no turning back. “There was a new energy and I knew I wanted to do something creative.” He cut his teeth at Romeo Gigli and then moved on to Jil Sander, where he got a call from Calvin Klein telling him that he wanted Zucchelli to work on his women’s collection design team. “He’s a living legend and in my opinion, a genius,” Zucchelli said. “I worked with him for three years and learned a lot from him. He’s my mentor. He changed my life.” Being able

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