Mathias Facchini was born in Vicenza. After getting a college degree in Economics, he enriches his experience by managing Swinger International S.p.a., flourishing family business that had been successfully expressing the industrial ability and craftsmanship of “Made in Italy” since 1971.

In 2002 he was appointed CEO of Swinger International S.p.a. while the company keeps on growing, also at the international level.

This generational transition does not alter at all the standard that had been achieved during the years; on the contrary, Mr. Facchini’s arrival at such a crucial leading position brings a wave of energy that infects the whole company with enthusiasm.

As a matter of fact, the same year the historical brand Byblos, synonymous with creativity, colour and innovation is acquired.

Mr. Facchini manages to successfully consolidate this acquisition of major importance by strengthening relationships with existing licensees and forming important alliances with new partners who are operating with a specific know-how in product segments such as kid’s wear, shoes, leather bags and other accessories.

Fond of architecture, he inaugurates a futuristic building as company base in 2001; there, a Zen atmosphere reigns and pieces by contemporary artists can be admired. In 2006, he turns another aspiration into reality by accomplishing the Byblos Art Hotel project.

Manuel Facchini, Art Director

The aesthete of the future

Manuel Facchini, born in 1973, charismatic and sensitive talent and creative lifeblood of Maison Byblos, has refined and strengthened his vocation  to develop a style that evolves along the lines of  ongoing innovation of shapes and concepts in the city he loves, London, where he has discovered a new world.

His mantra is daring experimentalism that transcends all limits except those dictated by the industrial design requirements that make Byblos the workshop of the future.

Manuel Facchini, a lover of beauty and a meticulous perfectionist, has conceived a congenial approach to the fertile marriage between his unbridled creativity and the industrial process requirements, assimilated by growing up in contact with the logics of the company.

One of the crucial aspects of the Byblos style, as it has been reinvented by Manuel, comes specifically from his emphasis on the voluptuous plasticity of shapes and the sculptural and enveloping substance of the volumes that forge up-to-date silhouettes with sensual and futurist look.  Sometimes it seems that the pencil has been replaced by the chisel.  A sumptuous and pioneeristic language that projects the canons of high handcrafting into the future, for prêt-à-porter full of magniloquence but also on the concrete perception of modern beauty that cannot abdicate practicality.

Manuel’s intuition is his ability to shape aulic esthetics destined for real, although gloriously beautiful and diaphanous, women. Manuel Facchini also possesses a strong taste for developing communication strategies that translate the message that pervades his Collections into tangible sensations.