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THE ANSWERS with… Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani

Bulgari's Naples-born, Rome-raised product creation executive director, Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani, is a man of numerous talents. A healthy obsession with how luxury objects should look and operate means that anything more than a passing chat with him is liable to be complemented by spontaneous visual embellishment, as he makes sweeping gestures with pen on paper as he talks. Indeed, his sketches of watches, jewelry, cars and so much else pepper his Instagram feed (where, first and foremost, he calls himself an “industrial designer”) and are constant companions wherever he goes.

Now in his early 50s, Stigliani began his career at Fiat Style Centre in Turin, and he joined Bulgari in 2001. One

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