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Fabio Panzeri

Fractional CCO · Creative Director · Brand Architect I close the gap between identity and execution.
About

Fractional CCO & Creative Director | Brand Coherence System™ for Luxury Accessories. Governance, not decoration: I align brand identity, product, and commercial performance into one system. Markets: APAC, Europe, select USA.

Previous Brands
DEORUM AETHERNA
Revolver Requeen Venexia
BRAUN BÜFFEL (Braun GmbH & Co. KG)
Trussardi
Pirelli
Calvin Klein
Calvin Klein Inc.
FABIOPANZERI™
Etro
DOLCE&GABBANA S.r.l
Phygital-Nomads
Work Experience
Creative Director
Jan ‘23 - Now
Deorum Aetherna

Creator and Co-founder of Deorum Aetherna — a visionary Slow Luxury · Home Fragrance & Sculptural Object

Fractional Chief Creative Officer
Jan ‘23 - Now
PHYGITAL-NOMADS

Branding Agency External creative authority. Aesthetic trajectory, brand narrative, and creative coherence governed as one system. Scope: Campaign direction, identity governance, visual language across all touchpoints.

Executive Creative Director
Jan ‘18 - Dec ‘24
Revolver Requeen Venexia

Commissioned by Italian Heritage Factory, I launched a gender-fluid luxury footwear brand from concept to market — continuous sizing EU 34–46, dissolving binary codes through design. The brand was built across every layer: storytelling, boutique concept, exclusive packaging, collection development, and global communication.

Creative Director
Jun ‘17 - Dec ‘23
BRAUN BÜFFEL (Braun GmbH & Co. KG)

Historic German leather goods brand with APAC headquarters. Full creative ownership across brand, product, communication and licensing — nine categories, multiple markets. Built governance frameworks that aligned creative output to commercial performance across Singapore, APAC and China.

Creative Consultant
Jun ‘16 - Jul ‘18
Trussardi

Creative consultant during a critical brand transition. Designed runway-aligned collections and directed special projects repositioning Trussardi toward a more defined luxury signature — balancing Italian heritage with contemporary market demands.

Designer / Creative Consultant
Jan ‘16 - Jun ‘16
Pirelli

Invited to develop the P Zero experimental accessories programme — men's objects at the intersection of performance culture and luxury materiality. A project operating at the edge of category definition, where industrial heritage meets artisanal precision.

Head of Design
Oct ‘09 - Oct ‘16
Calvin Klein

Seven years leading men's leather goods and accessories design — redefining the category's aesthetic language and aligning collections with the brand's evolving cultural and commercial positioning.

Founder & Creative Director
Jan ‘07 - Now
FABIOPANZERI™

Creative Director & Creative Authority Creative direction and governance for luxury and premium brands in transformation, scaling or repositioning. Working hands-on with leadership teams or as an embedded executive partner, aligning product vision, brand language, organisation and market performance. Selected Impact (Confidential Clients): Asian Leather Goods Atelier (2023–2025): Proprietary capsule + licensing → €1.85M expansion Japanese Eyewear (2023–2024): Premium repositioning capsules → €1.3M APAC European Footwear (2023–2024): APAC entry strategy → €680K (18 months) Asian Eyewear (South Korea 2021–2022): Special Edition capsules → 12% revenue (€18M total) Confidential clients disclosed upon request Collaborations: Casio G-Shock X Braun Büffel, Trussardi, Etro, Pirelli P Zero, McLaren F1.

Head of Design
Jul ‘02 - Sep ‘09
DOLCE&GABBANA S.r.l

Seven years at the core of Dolce & Gabbana menswear — leading luxury sneakers and leather goods design during a defining period of the brand's global ascent. Built category identity at the intersection of Sicilian heritage and metropolitan masculinity.

Head of Design Department
Jan ‘02 - Jul ‘02
Etro

Appointed to lead leather goods design at a pivotal repositioning phase. Redefined category aesthetic language within the Etro universe — aligning product with the brand's maximalist heritage while introducing structural rigour.

Languages
English - Fluent
References
Maria Rosa Zito
Educator/Teacher/Professor - Chief Creative Officer, Phygital-Nomads
Jan 2023 -

Fabio Panzeri is a Creative Director with profound experience in the design industry. His extensive expertise serves as the foundation for his creative and interpretive abilities. An incredible storyteller, his roots delve into an infinite knowledge of cinema and art. He approaches projects with a decidedly unconventional vision, successfully creating and directing the realisation of visually compelling Branding strategy and ADV campaigns while keeping the objective in sharp focus, even when working with limited budgets. One of the noteworthy aspects is his engaging personality, which actively involves team members in project execution.

Education & Training
Harvard Business School online
‘23 - ‘23
Certification Businesss Strategy
Businesss Strategy
Istituto Moda e Abbigliamento Marangoni
‘90 - ‘93
Degree
Art and Design
Vacallo, Switzerland