Stefano Ricci

Stefano Ricci was founded in 1972 in Florence by Italian designer Stefano Ricci as a luxury menswear brand specifically focused on what Ricci described as 'the highest-tier Italian-mill silk-and-cashmere men's accessories craft.' The brand's foundational thesis was specific: produce the highest-tier Italian-mill silk-tie-and-accessories category at a price tier well above the broader Italian menswear-accessories category — anchored to hand-finished construction at the Florence workshops and exclusive Italian-mill silk-and-cashmere fabric partnerships. The Stefano Ricci vocabulary settled around several specific products: hand-finished Italian-mill silk neckties at the highest-tier luxury price (typically €300-€500 per tie), hand-stitched silk pocket-squares and scarves, hand-finished Italian-cashmere sweaters and overcoats, Italian-leather shoes and luxury accessories, and a colour palette anchored to deep navy, oxblood, washed-cream, charcoal, plus the brand's recurring use of saturated red, royal-blue, and the iconic Stefano Ricci hand-painted silk colour combinations. The brand has dressed multiple US presidents, European heads-of-state, and broader global political-elite figures. Stefano Ricci is independent and family-controlled by the Ricci family through three generations (Stefano Ricci's son Filippo Ricci is the current CEO). The brand operates approximately 70 flagship retail stores globally — anchored to Florence (the brand's home flagship), Milan (Via Montenapoleone), Paris (Avenue Montaigne), London (New Bond Street), New York (Madison Avenue), Beverly Hills, Tokyo (Aoyama, Ginza), Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Doha, Riyadh, Moscow (until 2022), plus international wholesale through Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue, Harrods, the major luxury department stores globally. The brand has been one of the defining post-1972 Italian-anchored highest-tier-luxury-menswear-accessories brands.