Diego Della Valle, CEO of luxury house Tod's: "No artificial intelligence will replace know-how"

In just over half a century, the mention " made in Italy » has made a place for itself on the labels of almost all luxury goods. Today, from leather goods to knitwear, from shoes to shirts, our transalpine neighbors concentrate numerous skills: with more than 90,000 clothing companies and around 1 million employees, fashion represents their third largest industry, with nearly 100 billion euros in turnover. But all is not necessarily rosy as the sector is going through a difficult economic period linked, among other things, to the decline of certain markets and the rise in raw material prices. Above all, most of the major Italian fashion houses are facing succession issues. The empire builders who emerged in the 1970s and 1980s are preparing for the next generation. What will become of Italian fashion after the departure of Giorgio Armani and the Bertelli-Prada couple? And obviously Diego Della Valle…

Very attached to the defense of know-how…