Diesel SpA

Diesel Logo 2015.png

Formerly called

Moltex[1]

Type

Private

Industry Fashion

Founded Molvena, Italy

(1978; 39 years ago)

Founder

Adriano Goldschmied

Renzo Rosso[1]

Headquarters Breganze, Italy

Key people

Renzo Rosso, president & founder

Nicola Formichetti, artistic director

Products Clothing and Accessories[2]

Revenue €2.9 billion (2015)

Parent OTB Group

Website www.diesel.com

History Edit

Diesel founder Renzo Rosso began stitching jeans on a sewing machine at the age of fifteen. He used his
mother’s sewing machine to produce low-riding, bell bottomed jeans, which he would wear himself and
sell to his friends for 3500 lira a piece. He later attended an industrial textile manufacturing college in
Padua.[5]