Stefano Pilati

Stefano Pilati
Born	1965 (age 46–47) Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Occupation	Fashion designer
Known for	Head designer for Yves Saint Laurent fashion house (since 2002)

Stefano Pilati (born 1965) is an Italian fashion designer. Since 2002, he has been the head designer of the fashion house Yves Saint Laurent.

Career

Having seen his hometown grow into a fashion hotspot in the 1980s, Pilati gave up his course to qualify as a land surveyor, joined the fashion house Cerruti as an intern, and emerged without a doubt in his mind that his future lay in the industry he saw thriving. He has thus decided to embrace Milan's fashion scene and set out to learn everything there was to know about ready-to-wear apparel materials and production. A velvet manufacturer offered him his first job. A few months later, Pilati was designing that company's entire collection, and presenting it to Europe's leading ready-to-wear names.

The fashion house Giorgio Armani hired him as an assistant in its men's ready-to-wear department in 1993, and the fashion house Prada asked Pilati to run its fabric research and development in 1995.

In 1998, he was promoted to assistant designer at Miu Miu, a brand of Prada, working on men's and women's ready-to-wear clothing and reporting directly to Miuccia Prada.

In 2000, Pilati joined fashion house Yves Saint Laurent to run its ready-to-wear clothing design; he assumed his current position in 2004.

See also

• French fashion
• Italian fashion
• List of fashion designers
• List of Italian designers
• List of Milanese people

External links

• Stefano Pilati designer profile at Fashion Model Directory
• Stefano Pilati at the Internet Movie Database
• ysl.com, Yves Saint Laurent brand's official website