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“I was a loser DJ,” Zanotti tells Tatler as we sit down to chat in the Presidential Suite at Fullerton Bay Hotel in Singapore. He’s sat in a lounge chair, wearing his signature black, thick-framed glasses.
Before becoming one of the world’s most celebrated shoe designers, Zanotti started his career as a DJ for an independent radio station in his hometown in Italy, essentially working for free because he would “spend all [his] money buying records”.
Zanotti grew up in San Mauro Pascoli, a coastal town one hour south of Bologna