Nicola Formichetti

Nicola Formichetti is an ItalianJapanese fashion director and fashion editor. He is most widely known as the artistic director of the Italian fashion label Diesel, and for being a frequent collaborator with singersongwriter and performance artist Lady Gaga. He worked two years with the French fashion house Mugler as artistic director.

The son of a japanese stewardess and an Italian pilot, Formichetti was born in Japan and grew up in Rome and Tokyo, attempting to assimilate in both cultures. As a child he trained as a classical pianist . But moving to London became his great desire and he used the excuse of attending an architecture school to which he was accepted in order to get there. Formichetti has explained that instead of attending he literally walked in the front door of the architecture school and then ran out of the back one to go clubbing for three years. He became a student of the nightlife and street fashions, and began working at a fashionable boutique called The Pineal Eye where he would become art director and head buyer for two years. Formichetti is openly gay.

Source: Wikipedia