Brunello Cucinelli & family

Net worth over time

Biography

• The "king of cashmere," designer Brunello Cucinelli dropped out of engineering school and used a $550 loan to launch a fashion line in 1978.
• Inspired by brightly colored wool sweaters, he set out to create a similar garment in cashmere.
• Today his eponymous luxury brand is best known for those cashmere sweaters, but also sells dresses, suits, shoes, handbags and accessories.
• Cucinelli took the $1.6 billion (2025 revenues) company public in 2012, listing its shares on the Italian stock exchange.
• Since 1985 he has operated Brunello Cucinelli SpA from his headquarters in Solomeo, a medieval Italian hamlet that he has renovated for his employees.
• Cucinelli contributed to the reconstruction of several monuments in the central Italian town of Norcia, which was damaged in a 2016 earthquake.
• He does not allow work after 5:30 pm and serves 90-minute homemade lunches prepared by the housewives of Solomeo.

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