Angelo Zegna, born in 1924, joined his father Ermenegildo's company in 1942 and ran it with his brother Aldo from the mid-1960s, taking Zegna into ready-to-wear, international factories and its own boutiques, from Paris in 1980 to Beijing in 1991. His son Gildo became chief executive in 1997, and Angelo remained honorary chairman until his death in 2021.