Sabato De Sarno does not love having people over to his home. “I never host anyone,” De Sarno, the creative director of Gucci, tells me as we are seated on his living room couch across from his snoozing dapple dachshund, Luce. Colleagues aren’t invited for dinner, his partner lives in Brussels, even his parents don’t get to spend the night. “It’s where I relax,” says De Sarno, a baby-faced 40 with closely cropped hair and beard, as he fidgets with the strings of his Jurassic Park sweatshirt. “Where I disconnect from work.”
The walls of the apartment, on a winding street in the Renaissance quarter of Rome, are decorated with contemporary works by Jannis Kounellis and Sidival Fila. There are prints of Italian icons, including one of the writer and director Pier Paolo Pasolini. Beneath coffered ceilings and atop the room’s minimalist deco furniture rest fertility sculptures from Sardinia, one of which has the deep bordeaux colour with which De Sarno is repainting Gucci’s bags and shoes and skirts and jackets. He gave the colour, and his first runway collection last September, the name Ancora, which means ‘again’—in the insatiable sense, he tells me—“of when you kiss someone you like and you don’t want to stop doing it”. That is his ambition for Gucci, too, he says: to imbue it with passion.
This story is from the March 2024 edition of Vogue Singapore.
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