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Dolce&Gabbana
Dolce&Gabbana is the Italian luxury house founded in 1985 by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. The founders remain the creative and stylistic source of the brand, while Alfonso Dolce is Chief Executive Officer. The group designs, produces and directly distributes clothing, leather goods, footwear, jewellery, watches and, since 2023, beauty products under the Dolce&Gabbana name; eyewear and some lifestyle categories are managed through licence partners. Its fashion language draws on Italian craft, Sicily, corsetry, tailoring, print, ceremony and theatrical image-making. The page preserves the founders’ shared creative authorship and separates it from executive responsibility and licensed categories, rather than turning a privately held group’s cultural scale into an unsupported revenue or valuation claim.
- Country
- Italy
- Founded
- 1985
- Creative lead
- Stefano Gabbana
- Ownership
- Founder-controlled
- Revenue scope
- Consolidated D&G S.r.l.
- Documented milestones
- 5
- Domenico Dolce — Co-Founder and Creative Director1985–Present · house · current · Dolce&Gabbana
- Stefano Gabbana — Co-Founder and Creative Director1985–Present · house · current · Dolce&Gabbana; Associated Press
- Alfonso Dolce — Chief Executive Officer2017–Present · house · current · Dolce&Gabbana
- 1985 — Group foundedDomenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana establish the house.
- 2012 — Alta Moda beginsThe first Alta Moda presentation is staged in Taormina.
- 2022 — Fur-free policy beginsThe house stops using animal fur in new products and collections.
- 2023 — Beauty moves in-houseThe group begins directly producing and distributing beauty products.
- 2024 — Group code updatedD&G S.r.l. approves the current group Code of Ethics.