Taller Marmo, an Italian women’s ready-to-wear label. Founded in 2013 in Dubai by Riccardo Audisio, Italian, and Yago Goicoechea, Argentine, who met at Istituto Marangoni in Milan.
There is something Italian in Taller Marmo's trajectory, but not only that. Riccardo Audisio, Italian, and Yago Goicoechea, Argentine, meet at Milan's Istituto Marangoni in 2010. Two years later, they walk away from school, disillusioned, they say, by the pace of the system, and launch their label. Not in Milan. In Dubai. The gesture is radical: break with the academy, bet on the Gulf, trust in the fluidity of the kaftan at a moment when no one in Europe is really interested in it.
The name already says it all. Taller — the workshop in Spanish, craft, the handmade gesture. Marmo, marble in Italian, the noble material, excellence. A brand conceived as a bridge: European elegance on one side, Middle Eastern charm on the other. The house's kaftans borrow from the jet set of the 60s and 70s, Sophia Loren in Capri, Peggy Guggenheim in Venice, Diana Vreeland everywhere, never sinking into nostalgia. Clean asymmetries, ostrich feathers, sculptural fringe, fluid satins, couture jacquards. A grammar that knows how to be restrained in Riyadh and spectacular in Los Angeles.
