Born: Riccione, Italy, 1950
That rarest of breeds - clever designer and top flight manufacturer - Alberta Ferretti is one of the most powerful women in Italian fashion. Owner of Aeffe, a high-tech computerized manufacturing complex near Rimini, Ferretti trained at her mother's small atelier before opening her first shop in Cattolica at 18 years old, selling Armani, Krizia and Versace. She switched from selling to designing, and today heads one of the most technologically advanced factories, which has produced collections for Franco Moschino, Rifat Ozbek, Narciso Rodriguez and Jean Paul Gaultier, while producing her own name lines. `One of my principles is there's no such thing as "It's impossible"', she told Vogue in 1992, `I always try.'
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