Luciano Benetton: Famous fashion to cultural controversy
Luciano Benetton rose from poverty in Italy to become a billionaire, founding a global fashion brand and creating some of the most controversial advertising campaigns in history.
Luciano Benetton rose from poverty in postwar Italy to found a chain of 7,000 high street fashion stores and create some of the most controversial advertising campaigns in history, becoming a billionaire along the way.
Journalist Zing Tsjeng and 麻豆社 business editor Simon Jack discover how it all started for Luciano Benetton with a yellow sweater knitted by his sister, on a journey that takes in Benito Mussolini, Dolce Vita, Formula One, and Princess Diana. But Benetton wasn鈥檛 just about fashion; with photographer Oliviero Toscani, the entrepreneur launched a series of highly controversial ad campaigns that tackled race, religion, AIDS, and the death penalty, that made the fashion brand infamous.
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