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Domenico Vacca is an Italian fashion designer, creative director, costume designer and entrepreneur. He launched his eponymous luxury brand in 2002. (menswear, womenswear, accessories, eyewear, fragrance, watches, tableware)

Early Life

Domenico Vacca was born in Andria, Italy, the son of Nicoletta Di Bari and Michele Vacca, he spent his early life in his hometown and he graduated in Laws at Bari University, School of Law, with Honors, and he got admitted to the BAR. He moved to Milan where worked at the Milan office of the prestigious American law firm Baker & Mckenzie. In 1989 he won a Baker & Mckenzie scholarship to study abroad. In the summer 1990 he studied Comparative Law at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and in 1991 he graduated from New York University with a Master of Laws, LLM.

In 1991 joined the office of Baker & Mckenzie in New York City where he represented and adviced many Italian companies and fashion brands including Tod’s, Versace, Hugo Boss, Ermenegildo Zegna, Malo, Byblos, Gentry Portofino, the Italian Trade Agency, the Italian TV Networking RAI, in doing and expanding their business in the US.

Publishing Career

In 1995, after the death of cancer of his father Domenico Vacca decided to leave his successful career at Baker & Mckenzie and follow his passions: publishing and fashion. He founded a publishing company in New York and launched Italia Magazine, the first glossy magazine dedicated to Italian culture and to its best products and brands. “The idea was to create for the first time a beautiful publication about the best Italy offers” - said Domenico Vacca. The magazine reached the circulation of 200,000 copies and was available at newsstands nationwide and in all luxury Italian boutiques and restaurants in New York, Miami and Los Angeles. Domenico Vacca was also the founder of “The Made In Italy Awards” in 1997, an event that takes place in New York City where the best Italian companies doing business around the world are recognized. Vacca sold Italia magazine in 2001. Domenico Vacca, creating Italia Magazine and “The Made In Italy Awards” became an ambassador of Made In Italy in the world, promoting constantly Italy, Italian culture and made in Italy products, everywhere in the world.

Fashion Career

Born in a family deeply rooted in fashion since 1920, Domenico Vacca’s grandmother, Sabina Orciuolo, was a successful designer and seamstress since 1920 in Domenico’s hometown Andria, in Puglia, in the South of Italy. She owned an atelier with 30 seamstresses creating beautiful women’s dresses with her male relatives, all master tailors, making beautiful handmade suits and jackets. Vacca grew up in this tailoring wonderland playing since his childhood with fabrics and helping his relatives marking, cutting and sawing their creations. After Vacca got his education and his degrees in Italy and in the United States, six years practicing law and five years of publishing career, in 1997 Vacca decided to go back to his family roots and invest in an Italian sartorial company, based in Naples, Italy. of which he developed the first full men’s collection and designed the first U.S. store and launched the brand in the US achieving instant success.

The Domenico Vacca Label

In 2002 Vacca, after 5 years of full immersion in the “Neapolitan school” of tailoring, launched a line of menswear, womenswear, shoes, handbags and accessories named after himself, “Domenico Vacca.” Domenico Vacca opened its first flagship store in New York on Fifth Avenue, bringing for the first time in the US a “true” Italian style and fit with no compromise to pleasing the American Market. He brought to the US the “close to the body” fit for men that become very popular around the world in the following years. Vacca also created the “power suit” for men and women making the everyday suit powerful, chic, flattering and sexy. The leading Italian newspaper La Republicia named Domenico Vacca “The Ferrari of Fashion” a title that since 2002 has been attached to Domenico Vacca and picked up by the international press around the world. Domenico Vacca has dressed many Hollywood stars at the Oscars, Golden Globes, Sag Awards, Bafta Awards and Cannes Film Festivals, including Daniel Day Lewis when he won his third Oscar for Best Actor for the movie Lincoln, and also, Forest Whitaker, Alan Arkin, Jeremy Piven, Frank Langella, Mickey Rourke, Melissa Hertridge. At the 2007 Academy Awards Domenico Vacca dressed 11 Hollywood male stars and the Italian newspaper La Stampa wrote an article with the following headline “Italian tailor challenge King Giorgio on the Oscars’ Red Carpet” underlined that Vacca dressed more male stars than Giorgio Armani at that year. In 2013 Vacca dressed Daniel Day Lewis and won a survey of The Academy on who was the Oscar’s best dressed actor prevailing over Alexander Mcqueen, Gucci and Tom Ford.

The Domenico Vacca

The Domenico Vacca brand is showcased in a prestigious location in New York City. The New York Flagship Store is a unique ten-story luxury building on 55th street, right off Fifth Avenue, 15 West 55th street, featuring the full brand’s lifestyle concept. The space hosts the Domenico Vacca men’s and women’s boutique, an Italian style café, an art gallery, a beauty salon, a barber shop and a members only private club. Domenico Vacca is also available online at www.domenicovacca.com

Hollywood

A favorite of Hollywood costume designers, directors, producers and studios, Domenico Vacca has collaborated with them to create the wardrobe of leading actors and actresses in blockbuster films and TV series such as: Empire (TV Series 2018) (wardrobe: Terrence Howard) The Kominsky Method (TV Series 2018) (wardrobe: Michael Douglas, Alan Arkin) Entourage (2015) (wardrobe: Jeremy Piven) Damages (TV Series 2012) (wardrobe: Glenn Close, Ted Danson, Tate Donovan, Michael Nouri) Entourage (TV Series 2005-2011) (wardrobe: Jeremy Piven) The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) (wardrobe: Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei) The Son of No One (2011) (wardrobe: Al Pacino) In Treatment (TV Series 2010) (wardrobe: Gabriel Byrne) Morning Glory (2010) (wardrobe: Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton) Just Wright (2010) (wardrobe: Queen Latifah, Common, Paula Patton) Our Family Wedding (2010) (wardrobe: Forest Whitaker) Lipstick Jungle (TV Series 2008-2009) (wardrobe: Brooke Shield) Street Kings (2008) (wardrobe: Forest Whitaker) Secret's Out (TV Series 2007) (wardrobe: Shaun Toub, Homayoun Ershadi) American Gangster (2007) (wardrobe: Denzel Washington) August Rush (2007) (wardrobe: Jonathan Rhys Meyers) Nothing But the Truth (Video 2007) (wardrobe: Matt Dillon, Angela Basset, Alan Alda) Stranger Than Fiction (2006) (wardrobe: Will Ferrell, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah) Inside Man (2006) (wardrobe: Denzel Washington, Christopher Plummer, Jody Foster)

Awards and Recognition

-2005 Best Fashion Collection, Robb Report Magazine “BEST OF THE BEST AWARDS”, -2007 Best Fashion Collection, Robb Report Magazine “BEST OF THE BEST AWARDS”, -2008 Best Tie Collection In The World, Best Life Magazine, -2017 Pugliesi Nel Mondo Award, -2017 Italy On Screen “EXCELLENCE” Award, -2018 Made in Italy “EXCELLENCE” Award, -2018 Made in Italy “EXCELLENCE” Award Association of Italians In The World, -2018 San Nicola Apulia Region Medal