Fashion career profile
Stefano Gallici
Stefano Gallici is an Italian fashion designer and Creative Director of Ann Demeulemeester. Born in 1996 in Teor, near Udine, he studied Fashion Design at IUAV University of Venice, enrolling in 2016 and graduating in 2018. Early experience included apprenticeships in sewing and pattern-making and a nine-month collaboration with Haider Ackermann in 2017. He moved to Milan in 2019 to work with Antonioli Group and joined the Ann Demeulemeester team in 2020, the year the group acquired the house. Appointed Creative Director in 2023, Gallici leads the label’s contemporary collections while drawing on its established archive and the founder’s design legacy. His path combines technical training, an early studio collaboration and a progression inside the organisation now responsible for the house.
- Role
- Creative Director, Ann Demeulemeester
- Nationality
- Italian
- Age
- 30
- Career appointments
- 1
- Fashion houses
- 1
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- Education: Fashion Design, IUAV University of Venice (2016–2018)The house’s press biography dates enrollment and graduation. · Ann Demeulemeester
- Selected career path: Haider Ackermann collaboration (2017) · Antonioli Group (2019) · Ann Demeulemeester team (2020–)These are dated steps in the designer’s path; only the Ann Demeulemeester role is represented as a formal house leadership appointment. · Ann Demeulemeester
- 2017 — Collaborates with Haider AckermannGallici’s official house biography records a nine-month collaboration while he was studying in Venice.
- 2020 — Joins the Ann Demeulemeester teamHe joins the team in the year Antonioli Group takes over the brand.
- 2023 — Appointed Creative Director of Ann DemeulemeesterThe house identifies 2023 as the start of Gallici’s creative direction.
- 2023–Present — Creative Director — Ann DemeulemeesterCurrent appointment · Ann Demeulemeester