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Retired, not expired: Former banking exec stitches together new career in fashion

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Giuseppe De Giosa, founder of DGA Threads.

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Mr Giuseppe De Giosa is the founder of DGA Threads, a bespoke fashion business.

ST PHOTO: AZMI ATHNI

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SINGAPORE – Following Mr Giuseppe De Giosa’s retirement from banking after nearly 40 years, he stitched together a new career from threads from his youth.

The 73-year-old Italian, who first came to Singapore in 1990, has long been an aesthete and a collector of Tibetan rugs, European antiques and Japanese fabrics.

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