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A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

This autumn, Brown Thomas will stock the Brunello Cuccinelli menswear collection for the first time. Its creator and namesake is an original thinker for whom quality of life comes before profit.

Brunello Cuccinelli, when he was a child, lived in one half of a crumbling house with no electricity and no running water in

Umbria in Italy. There were 13 in his family. On the other side of the house lived a family of 14. With 27 people living cheek by fashion business public. His boutiques in Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, jowl, the contemplative young schoolboy understandably craved London, Tokyo, Moscow, Geneva, Hamburg, Miami and Las Vegas attract the

silence and in his mid-teens, he started taking an interest in the monastic, the most discerning of clients. One thousand luxury boutiques and department spiritual, the philosophies of great thinkers. Seeing how his father and brothers stores carry his collections. and he employs 1,000 people. He has won countless were disappointed by how they were treated in the factories where they worked, he fashion awards, been named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2012,

the house lived a family of 14. With 27 people living cheek by jowl, the contemplative young schoolboy understandably craved silence and in his mid-teens, he started taking an interest in the monastic, the