Pier Paolo PITACCO

• Image consultant for international high fashion and design companies,
acting as their interface with advertising, fashion, packaging and corporate design.
• Photo shooting support, events and exhibitions.
• Editorial competence: conception and planning of new editorial projects, restyling of existing magazines.
• Currently former Art Director of Rolling Stone Italy and Mondadori Italia.

• Over 40 design and fashion brands styled: Agnona, Armani, Bellora, Best Company, Byblos, Closed,
Dondup, Enrico Coveri, Ermenegildo Zegna, Fay, Fiorucci, Fratelli Rossetti, Frette, Furla, Gianfranco Ferré, Gruppo Arcte, Gruppo Miroglio, Guardiani, Gucci, Iceberg, Krizia, La Perla, Laurence Steele, Loro Piana, Marzotto, Missoni, Prénatal, Stefanel, Tod’s, Valentino; Aldo Coppola, L’Orèal, Puig Profumi, Wella; Cartier, Gioiellerie Gavello, IWC, Montegrappa, Nouvelle Bague, Platinum Guild, Richemont Group; Alessi, Audi, B-ticino, Inter Football club, Lion Japan, Swatch;

• Collaboration with over 20 Italian and international publishing houses: Class Editori, Condé Nast Italia, Edizioni Ecomarket, Federico Motta Editore, Gruppo De Agostini, Hachette/Hearst France, Hachette/Hearst Italia, Hachette/Hearst Russia, Hearst Bazaar USA, Idea Books, Il Sole 24 Ore, Lupetti Editore, Magazine
International, Mondadori France, Mondadori Italia, PRS Editori, RCS Corriere della Sera, Rizzoli Italia,
Rizzoli USA, 22 publishing, Swan Group, Sportswear International.

• Collaboration with leader Advertising Agencies: Armando Testa, DDBI, Leo Burnett, Mc Cann EricKson, Red Cell, Saatchi & Saatchi, Walter & Thompson, Young & Rubicam.

• Former teacher at Politecnico di Milano, Fashion Department.

• 34 Italian and international awards and acknowledgements (mainly in the United States).

• Over 20 art and photography exhibitions have hosted his art projects in the last 10 years.

• Professional biography “Stile Italiano: Twenty years’ graphic design in Italian Fashion”, Italian and English editions, published in year 2000.

• Professional knowledge of English and French, mothertongue Italian.

Pier Paolo Pitacco lives and works in Paris and Milan, where he has been at the centre of the biggest publishing events connected with the success of Italian Style since the ‘seventies.
Art director of “Uomo Vogue“ from 1977 through 1979, he held the same position for “Elle Italia“ from 1988 until 1999. He came up with the editorial graphic project for “Io Donna“, a weekly magazine distributed with Il “Corriere della Sera“ (1996), “Cartier Art Magazine“(2002), “Vanity Fair“ Italia (2003), “Elle Russia“(2007) and “Grazia France“ (2009), to mention only a few of his most important projects.
He has worked as image consultant for top Italian and international companies, acting as their interface with advertising, fashion, packaging and corporate design. Pitacco has won 32 international awards and acknowledgements (mainly in the United States) and 23 Italian Art Directors’s Club prizes.
In 2000 he published the volume “Stile Italiano: Twenty years’ graphic design in Italian Fashion“ (Lupetti Editore) in two editions, Italian and English, tracing his career from its origins. His work appears regularly in international specialised publications. A lover of art, photography and music, in 2006 he began developing artistic and design projects drawing on his sensitivity for graphics, colour and the contemporary.
Currently in addition to performing the professional activity of his study, he is artistic director of Rolling Stone Italy.