Stefano Cecchi (born

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1971) is a

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and

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Personal life

Grandson of Sir Gabriello Cecchi (1914-2000), an industrial

and "Cavaliere of the

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", Stefano grew up between the

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and

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, where he graduated in Economics in 1993.

Career

In the 1990s he opened and developed fashion agencies in

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(Wild and

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). In 1999 Cecchi founded the

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Stefano Cecchi Records, introducing the " Buddha Bar Collection" phenomenon to

and launching musical architecture projects for fashion brands and luxury items, (

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, Tod’s,

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Zegna Ermenegildo Zegna N.V., also known as Zegna Group () or the Ermenegildo Zegna Group, is an Italian luxury fashion house headquartered in Milan. It was founded in 1910 by Ermenegildo Zegna in Trivero, Biella, in the Piedmont region of northern It ...

Maserati Maserati S.p.A. () is an Italian luxury vehicle manufacturer. Established on 1 December 1914 in Bologna, Italy, the company's headquarters are now in Modena, and its emblem is a trident. The company has been owned by Stellantis since 2021. Ma ...

and

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). Between 2000 and 2010 he co-created several fashion

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s (Hydrogen, Bikinifuxia and Melody Maker) and opened

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s (San Carlo dal 1973). In 2003 he joined the Board of the Torino Football Club. In 2014 he rebranded and relaunched the Gelati Cecchi 1936 family company. Thanks to his ability to predict new trends creating highly successful products, he was even mentioned in the

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Italian encyclopedia. As of 2021, he is focused on asset-backed investments and has set up the London-based

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fund "Fondo per l'Arte - FpA", which invests in modern and contemporary art with a particular interest in emerging artists. Stefano Cecchi’s net worth is estimated to be over 130 million euros as of 2025, and he is the major shareholder in four British funds that hold important collections of contemporary art, including one of the world's best-known

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collections.

Books

In 2012 Cecchi published "10 years, 1000 projects", an

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of his works. In 2013 he published "Play, the autobiography of a dream". As a contemporary art collectionist Stefano Cecchi presented 5 catalogues: FP1 (2021), FP2 (2022), Transavanguardia Enchanted (2023), Forma 1 (2024) and Arte Povera e dintorni (2024). He has been writing a column in the Il Giornale dell’Arte under a pseudonym since 2023.

Sport

Cecchi is also an ITF (

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) player in both over-35 and over-40 categories, specialized in men's doubles and

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. He won 14 international ITF tournaments, three medals in the

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an Championships, and played in the

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s (with Fabrizio Gariglio), ranking second in the world and as a seeded player.

References

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