Giorgetto Giugiaro

Career and studios

Giugiaro began his career as a stylist in 1959 at the in-house Special Vehicle Design department of Italy's major carmaker, Fiat.

From 1959 until 1965, he worked in a similar capacity for Gruppo Bertone, a company exclusively working for other carmakers, primarily as a styling and design studio, similar to a building architecture firm, as well as handling low volume production of special edition cars for different carmakers. Although Bertone and Italy's other car and industrial design studios would create design proposals for other car brands on their own initiative, and sometimes even show concept cars under their own name, they never combined their design and production work for other carmakers with independent car manufacturing in their own right and under their own brand name, like Lotus in the UK, or Porsche in Germany.

In 1965, Giugiaro switched to working for Ghia, another of Italy's car design studios, through 1967. This experience was followed by a brief stint at Studi Italiani Realizzazione Prototipi (SIRP) in 1968, after which

In 1968, Giugiaro established his own studio, Italdesign Giugiaro. In 2015, he founded the design studio GFG Style in Turin with his son, Fabrizio Giugiaro, where he works to the present day.