Urban Tailored Menswear Hand-Made in Tuscany (IT)

 

SELF MADE is a project born from Gianfranco Villegas, who was born and grown up in Florence in 1990 from Filipino parents. He grew up alone with his mother not in the best conditions. This is the main thing that characterized his life and his personality. He started at the age of 14 to work to satisfy his huge passion for fashion, specially Men's wear, looking with enthusiasm at Mr. Raf Simons. But even if He was working during the weekends and summers He kept studying till his graduation at the prestigious Polimoda Fashion School, in Florence in 2013. There He started to express his dreams, his strong feelings, his struggle through his creations, till his BA collection that was inspired infact from his origins, the Italian and the Philippine culture, where He mixed luxury materials with very technical materials.

In his creations the Designer tries to experiment very classical and elegant pieces like suits, or shirts, by using unusual materials or cuts. The main thing is that every single detail, seam is carefully studied to be perfect and clean. He pays lots of attention to handmaded finishes, and luxury and elegant details. He also has a big passion for Art thats why he used to travel a lot around the most important Art fairs and contemporary museums. Now He moved to work in Paris.

The cllections are available in exclusive worldwide at the prestigious Boutique in Tokyo "Addition Adelaide" together with the leading brands.