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Marni

This report documents what Marni publishes about its ownership and supply chain — see the sourcing and transparency sections below. Marni’s supply-chain transparency is rated 1 out of 5.

Marni’s product range has not been scanned product-by-product to the Throne Standard, so no whole-catalogue fibre percentage is shown here — a headline fibre figure is only published once 100% of a catalogue has been read.

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1/5 · Unnatural · 18.9% plant fibre · 7919 styles scanned
7919 styles%
100% plant fibre18.9%
Animal fibre70.1%
Synthetic9.3%
Semi-synthetic1.6%

7919 Styles Scanned

2026-08-04
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About Marni

Documented facts (third-party): Good On You rates Marni “Not good enough” overall, with an environment rating of “very poor” (1/5), a labour rating of “very poor” (1/5) and an animal rating of “not good enough” (2/5), last updated April 2022.
Marni garments are primarily manufactured in Italy, and the brand markets itself under a “Made in Italy” luxury positioning; production and global distribution are handled through Staff International, OTB Group’s in-house manufacturing division. Beyond the general “Made in Italy” claim, Marni does not publish a factory list or a transparent supply-chain disclosure. Secondary marketplace sources (e.g. 1stDibs) state that while most handbags are made in Italy, some apparel and accessories are also produced in other countries such as Portugal, but this is not confirmed by Marni or OTB directly, so specific factory locations are Not publicly documented.
Marni is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1994 in Milan by Swiss-born designer Consuelo Castiglioni, originally as an offshoot of her husband’s family fur business (Ciwi Furs), and named after Consuelo’s sister. Marni is not independent: it is owned by OTB Group (Only The Brave), the Italian holding company controlled by Renzo Rosso that also owns Diesel, Maison Margiela, Jil Sander and Viktor&Rolf. OTB acquired a roughly 60% stake in 2012 and bought the remaining shares to take full ownership in 2015; the Castiglioni family and Consuelo herself left the company in 2016. Marni’s current CEO is Stefano Rosso (appointed May 2024) and its creative director is Belgian designer Meryll Rogge (appointed 2025), succeeding Francesco Risso (2016-2024).
Marni is a real, currently-trading legitimate business, not defunct. It operates as a luxury fashion house under OTB Group with approximately 96 stores worldwide, an active e-commerce site (marni.com), reported 2019 revenue around $170 million, a CEO appointed in 2024 (Stefano Rosso) and a new creative director appointed in 2025 (Meryll Rogge), whose first collections are being rolled out. This is the clothing/luxury-fashion Marni (distinct from any same-name entities in unrelated industries).
Marni is neither fast fashion nor a slow/small-batch ethical maker; it is a large-scale luxury fashion house operating on a seasonal runway-collection model at high price points, owned by a major multinational conglomerate (OTB Group). It does not follow the ultra-fast, low-cost, high-churn model of brands like Shein or Zara. However, it is also not “slow fashion” in the sustainability sense: it is a sizeable global luxury operation with weak transparency and no evidence of small-batch, low-impact or living-wage production practices.
Marni is a mixed-material brand.
How we scan. Every figure comes from the Throne Standard scan: we read the fibre composition off each live product, style by style, and count only single-fibre plant cloth (cotton, linen, hemp) as natural. Animal and plastic-based synthetic fibres sit outside the plant-fibre figure, and regenerated fibres such as viscose, rayon, modal and Tencel are counted as semi-synthetic.

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