Why it belongs in ORBIS
German fashion label founded 1984, its Italian-inspired ready-to-wear designed at the brand's creative headquarters in Monchengladbach since the late 1980s - four main collections a year for women and men.
Cinque was founded in 1984 by two friends drawing on the relaxed style of Italy's Cinque Terre coast, launching its first menswear collection in Germany that year and adding womenswear in 1991. Since the late 1980s the brand's creative headquarters has been based in Monchengladbach, Germany, where an in-house design team develops two main and two intermediate collections annually for men and women. Cinque positions itself in the entry-to-upper premium segment, blending Mediterranean-influenced design with European manufacturing, and also runs a modular capsule line called '9 TO 5' for business dressing.