10th place: "Faith" by Lawrence Stroll
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The 60-year-old Canadian Lawrence Stroll threaded the flotation of the fashion group Michael Kors in 2011 and sold his shares until 2014. In the nineties, he participated with $ 100 million in Tommy Hilfiger and also benefited from a successful listing on Wall Street. His son Lance, the businessman for 80 million euros in Formula 1 launched, where he starts for the team "Racing Point"; Meanwhile, Tommy Hilfiger equips the Mercedes team with clothes.
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Of course, the investor was at anchor for the Monaco Grand Prix with his 96 meter long "Faith". Stroll assigned the design contract to RWD for both the ex and the interior, and as with his 62-meter predecessor, trusted Feadship's yachting expertise. The Swiss-based motorsport fanatic is a passionate Ferrari collector and in 2013 bought a 1967 GTB / 4S NART Spyder for $ 27.5 million.
Seat 9: "Moneikos" by Leonardo del Vecchio
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The rise of eyewear baron Leonardo del Vecchio is the story of a self-made man: his father died before his birth, his mother gave him as the youngest of four children in an orphanage. At the age of 23, the Italian built his own spectacle production in Veneto, which had 14 employees after three years and was called Luxottica. What does this have to do with fashion? The world's first designer eyewear collection produced del Vecchio 1988 for Giorgio Armani. There are now license agreements with brands such as Chanel, Prada or Versace.
Luxottica - which includes Oakley and Ray-Ban - is the largest eyewear manufacturer in the world following its merger with French eyeglass giant Essilor. And del Vecchio's yacht? Measures 62 meters, was built in 2006 and expresses rather understated. She is one of three yachts of the Italian shipyard Codecasa, which have made it into the ranking - but does not come in the typical metallic look therefore.
8th place: "Drizzle" by Amancio Ortega
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The growing in Galicia textile mogul Amancio Ortega (Zara) is by far the richest man in Spain and at the same time the most prosperous Europeans. His wealth is based on the textile retail trade, meanwhile manages his holding but also real estate worth nearly ten billion euros.
Measured against Ortegas estimated fortune of sixty billion euros, his newest yacht with 47 meters is relatively small. Whereby the 83-year-old spends only his home holidays on the "Drizzle", built in 2017 - this summer, for example, he traveled with his family to the Croatian coast.
Seat 7: "Atlante" by Remo Ruffini
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Remo Ruffini is the CEO and co-owner of the fashion house Moncler, which initially focused primarily on alpinists as customers. The Milanese bought in 2003 and lifted the traditional brand, now known for its down jackets, from the functional to the luxury segment. The 58-year-old learned to sail as a boy on Lake Como and owned only wind-powered yachts in front of "Atlante".
Ruffini also appeared as a sponsor of the Perini Navi Cup. Its 55 meter CRN yacht with striking Nuvolari Lenard lines is no ordinary Mediterranean tramp; the marine-gray-gray hull of the initially closed-looking Explorer unfolds in five places; the stern bulwark above the beach club remains open on both sides during the voyage and becomes an open-air cinema in an orphaned tender parking lot.
Interior decorators from Paris, Patrick Gilles and Dorothée Boissier, chose black-brushed oak, spruce and eucalyptus wood panels and let the desk float away on rails in Ruffini's realm.
6th place: "TM Blue One" by Valentino Garavani
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At the age of 87, fashion designer Valentino Garavani cultivates the jetset traditions, including the Mediterranean round on his 46-meter-long Picchiotti. It was welded to steel according to plans by Gerhard Gilgenast and christened "TM Blue One" in 1988 by Sophia Loren - a tribute to Valentino's parents Teresa and Mauro.
The king of Italian elegance chose a classic navy blue for the fuselage, which originally opted for lines in Valentino red instead of today's light blue stripes. In this hue, Garavani designed haute couture gowns for divas like Jackie Kennedy Onassis or Audrey Hepburn. Valentino already sold in 1998 to an Italian holding company and in 2007, at 75, rose from active business. Since 2012, the brand is owned by the Qatari ruling family.
"TM Blue One" is registered in Italy, the US architect Peter Marino created the appropriate environment for Picasso and Warhol. The Instagram account of Valentino's business partner Giancarlo Giammetti sheds light on the usage activities of his yacht, which includes a Wally chase. Last year, Garavani welcomed Capri Gwyneth Paltrow on board.
5th place: "Freedom" by Roberto Cavalli
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Roberto Cavalli is one of the few of his guild who likes it fast. The eccentric fashion designer demanded 40 knots from the "Freedom", in test drives she managed 46 knots. With furnishings, the 28 meter long boat reaches 42 knots. Three MAN units each with 1397 kilowatts supply two jets and a booster.
But like his Italian colleagues, Roberto Cavalli confided to a local shipyard with Cerri Cantieri Navali (CCN). Cavalli worked collaboratively on the Batman-inspired Exterior with luxury yacht architect Tommaso Spadolini. So the two Florentines were already in the 41-meter Baglietto "RC" before.
The professional eccentric provided much stronger impulses in terms of interior design. There are animal textile prints (leopards!) And golden accents, as well as Scots-inspired prints of Cavalli's personal travel photography.
The pensioner - he is 79 years old on 15 November - not least shrunk to be able to drive at the wheel without having to get a big driver's license.
4th place: "Maìn" by Giorgio Armani
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It would only seem obvious if the yacht were to shine in this color for Giorgio Armani, the designer with a passion for dark blue. But the 85-year-old opted for a green, so dark that it looks like black. He trusted in the construction of the shipyard Codecasa from Viareggio.
He had already done so in 2003 when he started to yachting. He designed the "Mariù" -Interior at that time and chose the nickname of his mother. The second maternal nickname received five years later, the 65 -meter-long "Maìn".
After graduating, Armani worked as a window dresser in a fashion store, for which he later became a shopper. In 1978 he founded his own brand and from 1980 attracted Hollywood stars for their films.
3rd place: "Flag" by Tommy Hilfiger
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His clothes decisively coined the preppy look that Ralph Lauren established in front of him as the uniform of the US East Coast elite inscribed on Ivy League universities. Tommy Hilfiger's rise encouraged his courage for color and sophisticated marketing.
But most of all, as a 35-year-old entrepreneur, he had the backing of financially strong investors like Lawrence Stroll. From this, the fashion entrepreneur acquired a 62-meter-long yacht, as 2017 Stroll received the 34-meter-long "Faith" (10th place). Hilfiger renamed the Feadship to "Flag" and left his blue-white-red brand logo on the back.
At the age of 68 he is still creative director of the company sold in 2005 and reports on Instagram of his yachting lifestyle, which he shared this year with models Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid.
2nd place: "Regina d'Italia" by Dolce & Gabbana
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"Queen of Italy", as Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana already described their first 51-meter-long Codecasa, which is for sale for 18 million euros.
Her second, 14 meter longer yacht launched the Italian shipyard earlier this year. The two fashion designers - although they still work together, but have been walking their own paths since 2003 - chose the Milan architects m2atelier, with whom they worked out both interior and exterior.
The steel-aluminum displacement is to accelerate two Caterpillar diesel units, each with 1825 kilowatts of power to 17 knots. At twelve knots, the Codecasa engineers predict their flagship's range of action to be 5000 nautical miles.
The layout features two owner's suites and four guest cabins as well as a five by two meter pool on the sundeck. Up to 16 crew members sleep on the 950-tonne, LY3 and RINA-certified format.
1st place: "Limitless" by Leslie Wexner
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After being launched in 1997, the 96.25-meter-long Lürssen Building was the world's largest yacht for six years. Leslie Wexner, whose company L Brands include Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch, commissioned Jon Bannenberg to produce a "Carinthia VI" copy, just more modern, bigger - but equally fast.
25 knots reach "Limitless" in the electric booster mode, when both of 5400 kilowatt diesel engines work together with two 1700-kilowatt electric motors on a transmission. The 82-year-old drove "Limitless" as the only US citizen by special congressional vote under the star-studded banner long before President Donald Trump enshrined this for yachts of this size. Wexner is a Republican, but quit after Trump's comments on the Charlottesville riots from the party.
Wexner got into the public eye after the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein, who until ten years ago managed the goods of the textile entrepreneur and thus also managed "Limitless". In May 2019 Wexner informed that from now on the big Victoria's Secret lingerie shows are over. In August, then the explanation that Epstein embezzled his fortune.
