Emanuel Ungaro learned to sew after his father, an Italian tailor, gave him his own sewing machine as a child. By his early 30s, Ungaro had honed his design skills at Balenciaga and Courrèges and launched his own fashion house in Paris in 1965. After years of dressing women — including high profile performers and political figures — in bold colors and exuberant patterns, he launched a menswear collection and a number of fragrances before retiring from the fashion business in 2005, selling his company to businessman Asim Abdullah for $84 million.
"Minimalist is for people who don't understand color or are afraid of it."
