Renzo Rosso founded Diesel in 1978 and ever since then the brand has become a major fashion powerhouse.

Renzo Rosso was born in 1955 in the north-east of Italy in Brugine, he was a student at an industrial textile manufacturing school (which was the first fashion school in Italy). At the age of 20, Rosso began designing his own clothes. He graduated from school and later on in 1975 joined a local textiles company, more