Matteo Tamburini is a designer who has spoken of his collections as a way to talk about Italy and being Italian. Before Bottega Veneta he worked with Marco Zanini during his acclaimed years at Rochas in Paris.
In 2017 he joined Bottega Veneta in Milan as a senior womenswear designer and rose to head designer, in charge of outerwear, men's and women's tailoring and, importantly, leather garments. He worked under three creative directors there: Tomas Maier, Daniel Lee and Matthieu Blazy.
On 1 December 2023 Tod's appointed him creative director of its women's and men's collections, succeeding Walter Chiapponi. He arrived as the Della Valle family prepared to take the company private with L Catterton in 2024, and showed his first collection, for autumn/winter 2024, in Milan in February 2024. He has worked with the house's hallmarks, its leather craft and its sense of Italian heritage, and has described his aim as defining "what represented Tod's in the past, and what can represent it in the future."
His Autumn/Winter 2025 collection, his third, was conceived around the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea in Milan, the modern art museum Tod's had long used as a show venue, which was rebuilt after a Mafia bomb destroyed it in 1993. He took that story as an idea of resilience. Drawing on Carla Accardi, Alberto Burri and Lucio Fontana, the collection used tufted and twisted knits, patchworks of leather, suede and pony skin in single colours, painterly tweeds, a sculptural leather skirt and a red double-breasted coat. "We want to talk about Italy, about being Italian, and what could be a new way to interpret this language," he said.
Casadi has not verified his date of birth, place of birth or education.