CORMIO

Jezabelle Cormio was born in 1990 in New York to an Italian father and American mother. Her worldly childhood led her to live in big cities like Paris, Rome, and London as well as small towns across the Italian countryside, a duality embedded in the core of her creative process. She studied fashion at the Royal Academy of Antwerp in Belgium. In 2019 she felt it was time to design a broader collection focused on embroidered knitwear, with an all-encompassing head-to-toe perspective. The first spring-summer collection of CORMIO was launched that September with the support her business partner Giordano Franchetti. Growing steadily ever since, it introduced more than a line of garments, but an alternative approach to fashion design. Reclaiming the Italian tradition of transmission and its love of grandmothers — CORMIO creates pieces inspired by Italy’s vast cultural heritage working in decentralized areas of the country where she can contribute to sustaining the community in a meaningful way. Her greatest creation to date, her daughter Leonilde, was born in November 2020 just about a week after filming the brand’s short film for Gucci Fest which aired the same month. CORMIO lives and works in her design studio in Milan and produces everything she creates in Italy.