Rocco Barocco

Rocco Barocco: Brilliant Italian Fashion Designer

Rocco Barocco, one of Italy's most beloved and successful fashion designers, offers a fine taste of Italian beauty in fashion wear, high-end accessories, and perfumes for women, men, and children. An inspirational and highly creative designer, Rocco Barocco spares nothing when designing clothing for the rich and famous. His clothing creations range from casual ready-to-wear to elite eveningwear.

Rocco, enamored with the beautiful women vacationing in Ischia, became consumed with a desire to create fashion. He created beautiful sketches for which he received high words of praise from the beautiful women vacationing there including Anna Magnani, Gianna Maria Canale, Maria Calla, and many more.

In the sixties, he began his whirlwind career as a fashion designer in earnest in Rome where he acquired a position at the atelier of Monsier Giles. Learning the trade at the hands of the best, Rocco Barocco longed for his own line of fashion.

In 1968, Rocco opened his own atelier in Rome and achieved the success and respect for his designs that he so craved. In fact, already well-known for his avant-garde style, he immediately experienced an international surge in popularity, particularly because of the jet sets immediate acceptance and enchantment with his creations.

Rocco Barocco's Fashion House, providing high fashion clothing for influential people throughout the world, is located at Piazza di Spagna 81, Rome, Italy. Barocco's tastes have always leaned to the daring and bold or over-the-top styles that are craved by so many of the jet set.

Rocco Barocco delights in using black, black and white, and optical effects in his line of fashion wear. In fact, Rocco delights in repeating his creative patterns throughout fashion lines, creating somewhat of a defining moment for himself. Moreover, Barocco pays exceptional attention to the detailing and design of each of his creations, something that he is well-known to do.

Rocco Barocco has had a long line of famous customers including Ursula Andress, Countess Claretta Agusta, Claudia Cardinale, Laura Antonelli, Liza Minelli, and many others. In fact, Liza Minelli was instrumental in bringing the fashion creations of Rocco Barocco to America. Today, Barocco designs are exported throughout the world, most notably, France, Japan, and the United States.

Rocco Barocco's clearly defined style is creative, glamorous, and avant-garde to say the least. He attempts to challenge the fashion of the day and step beyond the expected and ordinary to create the extraordinary- something every woman deserves. He credits his style partly to his training in fashion at the hands of the very best that Rome has to offer and to the experience he has garnered from the world of high fashion.

Barocco's long line of sensational products include jeans, knitwear, ready-to-wear, scarves, fashion accessories, leather wallets, leather bags, perfumes, and linens. Barocco's designs often utilize stripes and spots. The fabrics most frequently showcased in Barocco's creations are soft and flowing, giving way to an extravagant and luxurious feel.

Barocco fashions are often bold, bright, asymmetrical, startling, and distinctive. Fabrics and details in gold, glittering sequins and exquisite embroidering have held a constant fascination for Barocco. Moreover, Barocco prefers fine fabrics like satins, cashmeres, and crêpes to create a soft, sumptuous effect with his designs.

His contemporary fashions often combine the incongruous, as he chooses to pair strong styles with vibrant colors to create unforgettable fashion masterpieces. Whether his fashions are hinting at masculinity or portraying soft femininity, his styles are always perfection personified with their perfect cuts, superlative balance, and matchless detailing.

By Susan M. Keenan