Roberto Cavalli, the Italian fashion designer renowned for his stretch jeans and animal prints, is getting the biopic treatment, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Filmmaking duo Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi have optioned Cavalli’s life rights from the man himself, with their Iervolino Lady Bacardi Entertainment banner having acquired the rights to his autobiography Just Me! from Cavalli’s company Freedom.

The film — which will chart Cavalli’s early life up to his success in the fashion industry — will be directed by Giulio Base (The Inquiry, Imperium: Pompeii, Doc West) and is due to shoot in Italy in March, using the same working title — Just Me! — as the book. Base is also writing the screenplay, over which Freedom will have final approval.