ABOUT

Manuela Mazzanti graduated in 1999 with a Bachelor's degree in Fashion Design at Istituto Marangoni Milano. She started her career working with several fashion studios and companies, where her creativity and dedication were soon recognized with the Rosa Camuna Award from the Lombardy region, in collaboration with MittelModa. A defining moment came through her work with Warner Bros., where she adopted a multidisciplinary approach to design, exploring licensing projects across multiple sectors. This expansive creative journey allowed her to forge connections within fashion, furniture, graphic design, textiles, and interior design.Today, she works closely with licensors in entertainment and industrial brands as a strategic design consultant, partnering with licensees to develop branded products. Her expertise extends to corporate brand innovation strategies, focusing on co-branding and co-marketing projects. 
In the sportswear and motorbike sectors, she leads creative management and product development for fashion and lifestyle collections and has collaborated with MotoGP teams on team paddock apparel. She also consults for interior design companies, designing furniture and accessories, with a particular focus on children’s design.
​She describes herself as a "creative mediator," an avid observer, and a passionate interpreter of interactive design. Her mission? To maintain a strong global vision, recognize connections, and transform them into fresh market insights. “True innovation lies in blending different worlds—knowledge and skill, past and present, technique and art, business and culture.”