Among the Founding Members of the Associazione marchi Storici d'Italia, an icon of one of the four A's of Made in Italy Clothing-Fashion, is the well-known shirting company Inghirami. Founded in Sansepolcro, Tuscany, in 1949 from the idea of lawyer Fabio Inghirami to install about 20 Singer sewing machines in a small home workshop to make tailored shirts for the elegant and refined man; the company has successfully crossed three generational barriers, confirming a strong link between tradition and innovation.

Inghirami was the first designer shirt in Italian fashion and its founder its first testimonial. Not only for this, however, the lawyer is considered a farsighted protagonist of Italian industrialization. His ability to anticipate the needs of the international market is credited with the conception of Cottonstir®, the first shirt in pure no-styrene cotton. This product, which revolutionized the concept of practicality in men's clothing, is still the Group's core business today. From the post-war development of the backward Alta Valtiberina, to the internationalization of the Group in the 1990s, Fabio Inghirami's extreme farsightedness was prominently manifested in the late 1970s, with the acquisition of multiple historic Italian companies in crisis, such as the Reggiani printing works, the Tessitura di Rivarolo and the Cotonificio Cantoni.

With their renovation and redevelopment, the family business is expanded to include the entire cycle of processing and making men's and then women's products. This ensures the complete development not only of the Group itself, but of the entire socioeconomic context in which the business arose, avoiding the squandering of resources and valuable professional experience.

After all, at the heart of the interest of a company so widely rooted nationally and internationally, there could only be an admirable spirit of social and environmental responsibility. “What I have done doesn't matter much anymore. It matters what I can still do. And it's a lot.” If these words, uttered in the 1980s by lawyer Fabio Inghirami, had not been elevated to a corporate philosophy by his son Giovanni Inghirami, the Group's entrepreneurial growth would perhaps have been less than what we know today, perfectly embedded in the national and international economic landscape thanks to a strategy of direct sales through corporate monobrands and widespread distribution with B2B customers.

In fact, at the beginning of the third generation, with Tommaso Inghirami at the helm, the company's reality is no longer limited only to clothing-with the Ingram, Inghirami, Reporter and SanRemo brands-but also extends to the agribusiness and art sectors. On the one hand, the ancient Medici farm of Grignano in Pontassieve, in the hills of Florence, where wine, extra-virgin olive oil, truffles and cereals are produced in organic farming. On the other hand, Palazzo Inghirami, in the heart of Sansepolcro, has always been home to numerous cultural initiatives aimed at promoting art in the area: from the engravings of Goya, to the Watercolors of King Charles of England, to the sculptures of Arnaldo Pomodoro, to the Exhibition A Proposito di Piero, to the International Biennial of Lace, to the exhibition of Maria Mulas and Mimmo Rotella.

We like to think that today Lawyer Inghirami would be proud of the tension to the future that the company he founded continues to have, not only for obtaining its Historical Marks the prestigious recognition, but for becoming the founder of the Association that aims to protect and enhance them.