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Brigati

For the few.
WHAT WE DID
Brand strategyCreative directionIdentity and logoCommunication pillarsCollection directionPhotographyPackagingEditorial ecommerceDigital designExperience designRetailPR and launch
SECTORLuxury fashion · footwear and ready to wear
DISCIPLINESStrategy · Identity · Creative direction · Photography · Digital · Retail
ORIGINGropparello, Italy · Miami, Florida
STATUSOwned brand · relaunched 2024
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THE CONTEXT

In 2024 Ricardo De la Blanca Brigati set out not to build a brand but to resurrect one. Alongside his son, the journalist and strategist Ricardo De la Blanca IV, and his wife Cheryl Herger, a veteran of fashion entrepreneurship, the family went looking for a legacy that had once dressed a continent.

The house began in the 1950s, when Ricardo De la Blanca II and Graziella Brigati built a fashion business that stretched across the Americas. Political shifts and social upheaval dissolved it, and left a beautiful silence behind.

For the few.
FOR THE FEW · THE LINE THE WHOLE HOUSE ANSWERS TO
THE CHALLENGE

Most fashion brands are born from trends. This one was born from memory.

The task was to turn a private inheritance into a global fashion identity without losing its soul, which is the part that usually goes first. Heritage brands fail in one of two directions: they either become a museum, or they become a logo with a date printed under it.

Brigati was not a name to invent. It was a name to reclaim. That distinction governed everything: no invented provenance, no borrowed Italy, no story the family could not personally stand behind.

THE INSIGHT
Fashion as remembrance. Every thread a tribute, every silhouette a story.
This was not nostalgia. It was inheritance. And the mission that came out of it, to revive traditions by awakening memories, became the north star for every touchpoint, from the design language to the tone of a caption.
The Brigati box, lined with a neoclassical painting, a velvet slipper inside
THE BOX · A PAINTING FOR A LINING, NOT A PATTERN
THE ARCHITECTURE

Three pillars, and the third one is the hardest to translate.

Heritage is anchored in real history, and only real history. Elegance is refined without being sterile. Gusto is the untranslatable spark that defines Italian boldness, and it is the one that keeps the brand from becoming a mausoleum.

To revive traditions by awakening memoriesTHE MISSION
HeritageANCHORED IN REAL HISTORY
EleganceREFINED, NEVER STERILE
GustoTHE ITALIAN SPARK
VISUAL LANGUAGE PULLED FROM AGED FRESCOES, ROMAN STONE AND MEDITERRANEAN SHADOWPLAY
THE VISUAL LANGUAGE

Neoclassicism, with palettes pulled from aged frescoes.

Ricardo and Cheryl built the collection, balancing neoclassical reference against contemporary taste. Ricardo IV unearthed the family's aesthetic DNA and carried it from Gropparello to Miami, fusing editorial vision with ancestral homage.

THE REFERENCE · WHERE THE PALETTE COMES FROM
THE PLACE · ITALY, WITHOUT THE POSTCARD
THE RED VELVET
WORN, NOT STYLED
THE RANGE BEYOND FOOTWEAR
Venice, gondola service
THE WORLD THE BRAND REMEMBERS, PHOTOGRAPHED AS IT IS TODAY
THE OBJECTS

Packaging that feels like an heirloom.

A logo drawn from Renaissance symbology, a box lined with a painting rather than a pattern, and a swing tag that carries the line the house answers to.

THE SWING TAG · BRIGATI, FOR THE FEW
THE BOOKLET · THE HOUSE, EXPLAINED WITHOUT SELLING
THE DIGITAL EXPERIENCE

A site that whispers secrets from the past in a modern voice.

From Instagram storytelling to editorial ecommerce, the experience was built to be tactile, tasteful and timeless. The shop reads like a magazine that happens to sell, because that is how this customer buys.

Every surface repeats the same restraint. If the object is quiet, the interface has no business being loud.

Brigati ecommerce
EDITORIAL ECOMMERCE · THE MAGAZINE THAT SELLS
SOCIAL · THE STORY, TOLD IN INSTALMENTS
RETAIL AND OUT OF HOME
THE RESULT
Brigati didn't arrive. It reappeared.
Leveraging RDLB's own PR and creative capability, the launch landed with resonance: early retail collaborations, boutique interest and industry press positioned the label not as a startup but as a return. Greatness does not expire. It waits.
THE PROOF
1950sWHEN THE FIRST HOUSE WAS BUILT
3GENERATIONS WORKING ON ONE COLLECTION
3PILLARS: HERITAGE, ELEGANCE, GUSTO
2024THE YEAR THE NAME WAS RECLAIMED