OTB Group portfolio, from Diesel to Viktor & Rolf — Renzo Rosso's Italian luxury holding after June 2026

OTB Group Portfolio: Inside Renzo Rosso's Empire

The OTB Group portfolio acquired its final missing percentage point on 4 June 2026, when Renzo Rosso’s Breganze-based holding bought out the last 30 percent of Viktor & Rolf from Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren and consolidated the Amsterdam couture house at 100 percent ownership eighteen years after the first 51 percent acquisition in 2008. The buyout makes Rosso, who turned seventy-one in September 2026, the only Italian luxury-holding founder still personally signing acquisition papers in a market where every comparable rival — LVMH, Kering, Prada Group, Richemont — runs on salaried CEOs and treasury teams. The Diesel founder is the only principal who built the holding and is still inside it. ...

June 7, 2026 · 15 min · 3146 words · FORMA Editorial
Marni x Cucchi café takeover

Marni x Cucchi: The Three-Month Café That Isn't a Pop-Up

The fashion takeover of Milan Design Week tends to follow a formula: find a palazzo, stage an installation, serve cocktails, leave. The results range from spectacular to cynical, but they share a trait — they are temporary. The space returns to normal by Monday. The fashion brand moves on. Marni’s approach this year is different, and it is the most genuinely delightful fashion project of the week precisely because it refuses the temporary. The OTB-owned house has taken over Pasticceria Cucchi — a Milanese café that has occupied the same corner of Corso Genova since 1936 — for a three-month residency running from 20 April through 15 July 2026. This is not a pop-up. It is a relationship, conducted in public, on a working café’s working hours, with a pastry counter that still has to function before 8am for the people who live across the street. ...

April 23, 2026 · 13 min · 2725 words · FORMA Editorial

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