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CHAPTER 1 | The search for beauty with a commitment to sustainability
The search for beauty with
a commitment to sustainability
1.1. The legacy of a great history
Ratti’s history and the company today
1945, this was the year that Antonio Ratti powered up the machines of his business specialising in the production and marketing
of fabrics for ties and scarves in Como, the world capital of silk.
This is a commitment that has, for over seventy years, combined the skill of craftsmanship, design research and technological innovation to offer, in collection after collection, a range of designs and prints of extraordinary exclusivity and excellence: the preferred choice of the major fashion houses of the world.
If it’s true, as Roald Dahl wrote, that: “Time grows everything that is alive, leaving the rest to age”, Ratti has never stopped investing and improving without, in doing so, forgetting its own roots, its links with the region and its specialised craftsmanship. These are all elements that have allowed the Group to give life to a product that is synonymous with quality, luxury and attention to detail.
For over seventy years we have provided craftsmanship expertise, style research and technological innovation, offering, collection after collection, an exclusive range of prints and designs.
Every Ratti collection derives its raison d’être from an exclusive archive, reinterpreted by following suggestions from the contemporary world. In the same way, each accessory is designed and planned through the lens of tradition and ancient wisdom, so that the classic and the modern can merge without the slightest disturbance to the refined style that, as always, represents the beating heart of the Guanzate company. Over the years, Ratti has been notable for
its attention to detail and an international outlook, to the point where it has become one of the largest Italian fabric manufacturers and was listed, in 1989, on the Italian stock market (Meracto Telematico Azionario, MTA).
Towards the end of the 1990s, the industrialist
and philanthropist, Antonio Ratti, decided to pass the baton to the next generation. His daughter Donatella took the helm of the company, while also confirming her prowess in the art of printing, and adding to the sensory, artistic and aesthetic value that underpins each piece of work.
Ratti fabrics, with their elegance and artistic refinement are, more than anything else, the perfect embodiment of the spirit of this journey: a tribute to tradition as the starting point in
the creation of a new language imprinted on a
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From Ludovico il Moro
(“the Moor”) to the industrial revolution to Made in Italy
The history of the Ratti Group
is symbiotic with the centuries-old history of Como, city of silk
In the Como area the development of artistry
in silk dates back to the XV century, a golden age when Italian manufacturing became oriented toward luxury, something for which our country is still famous throughout the world, and the expression ouvrage de Lombardie became synonymous with an object of precious craftsmanship.