8. Dolce & Gabbana
Founded in 1985 in Legnano by Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, Dolce & Gabbana is an Italian luxury industry fashion house.
After dropping out of a three-year course in fashion design at Marangoni Institute, Domenico Dolce began his career in the fashion industry.
He wanted to work for Giorgio Armani, basically, this was his dream, so one day, he carried his book of sketches over to Armani’s headquarters with the intention of showing the designer his work.
He handed the book to the receptionist and to this day, Dolce doesn’t know if Armani ever saw the sketches.
And now he runs a luxury industry fashion house with 3,150 employees and operating worldwide.
